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.
After a short walk leading to the shores of Lake Tovel, Sarah Messerschmidt proposes a series of creative writing exercises. Short and varied prompts activate participants’ imagination and creative faculties, using writing as a tool to explore both intimate and surrounding spaces.
Example prompt:
Describe an object that is dear to you. Describe its dimensions. Describe how it looks, how it feels to hold or touch, if it produces sound. Describe how you interact with it. Describe its resonances and associations.Now, from the perspective of the object, describe yourself. Describe how the object experiences your touch, your fondness, and how you use it. You are welcome to emotionally inhabit the object: does the object have feelings, desires? Alternatively, you may choose to express the object’s subjective-objectivity without affect or emotion. Without human affect, how does an object interact with human life?
