Sarah Messerschmidt
Sarah Messerschmidt is a writer interested in art, literatures, and critical theory. Her work spans poetic prose and academic essay, through which she explores intertextual and interdisciplinary responses to film and moving image. Sarah has been an affiliated writer with the Maumaus School in Lisbon (2021); ‘The Whole Life: An Archive Project’ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2022); and she was a Writer in Residence supported by the Kunstverein München (2022). Her recent publications can be found in Another Gaze, Artforum, Art Monthly (UK), MAP, Texte zur Kunst and Third Text.
Sarah Messerschmidt was a participant in the Nomadic School 2022.
In a meadow near the alpine hut hosting the Nomadic School, Sarah Messerschmidt leads a series of creative writing exercises. Short, varied prompts activate imagination and creative agency, using writing to explore both intimate and surrounding spaces.
Example prompt:
Find a writing partner, and develop a collaborative composition or practice through a “call and response” method. This means write (or scribble, draw, sketch, translate, satirise, corrupt, re-write) alternately in response to your partner on one sheet of paper. The exercise asks us to consider the processes and strategies of textual production and what it means to communicate and collaborate in creation.
