WRITE CLUB

WRITE CLUB | Presented by Ruby Donohoe x IN | ARI

Part of the series Studio Tactics for the End of Capital

WRITE CLUB is a one-off workshop by Ruby Donohoe for artists and creatives navigating precarity, constraint, and the practical realities of making work when the budget doesn’t. Part studio laboratory, part writing room, part collective thinking exercise, the workshop offers low-cost, high-ingenuity tactics for sustaining practice in unstable conditions.

Working through embodied prompts, collective writing experiments, and language-based studio scores, participants will explore noticing as a method, misunderstanding as a resource, and voice as material. Writing is approached not as a polished outcome but as residue, sound-mark, theft, sensation, and play—something tasted, spoken, interrupted, and shared. Confusion is welcomed as its own form of clarity, and generosity replaces authorship.

Led by Ruby Donohoe—an interdisciplinary artist whose practice uses choreography and instability as modes of critical inquiry—the workshop draws on interruption, hesitation, and disorientation as generative tools. Attention is given to how words emerge from the body, how language performs in space, and how estrangement can open new conceptual terrain.

This workshop is open to writers and non-writers alike—including artists and creatives with studio practices that involve words, as well as those looking to excavate conceptual ground through language play, collective experimentation, and low-pressure making. No prior writing experience is required, only a willingness to work together, stay curious, and let things remain unresolved.

What To Bring? Yourself, pen + paper

This initiative was supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with the Queensland Government.