The Arctic Terns: An Archipelago of Emergent Singularities

Bronwyn Davies; Susanne Gannon; Davina Kirkpatrick; Carol Laidler; Sheridan Linnell; Jane Speedy

doi:10.1177/15327086261440145

The Arctic Terns: An Archipelago of Emergent Singularities

Bronwyn Davies
, Susanne Gannon
, Davina Kirkpatrick
, Carol Laidler
, Sheridan Linnell
, Jane Speedy

University of Melbourne
University of Plymouth
University of Bristol

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Abstract

The Arctic Terns are six creative artists|writers|photographers|poets, who perform the paper you will encounter here. We Arctic Terns engage in collaborative writing and artmaking, connecting with each other, along with some of the other-than-human earth and animal others, through whom our own being-human is extended. We Terns become and write together as an archipelago of ‘singularities’; we have been meeting on Zoom for years, listening to and inspired by each other. We perform, here, in this paper, our approach to collaborative writing that builds on|pings off and playfully diffracts from whatever there is around us that provokes and inspires us. We invite our readers to take up the practice of emergent listening, to become with us in our archipelago of separate and connected becomings.

Original language	English
Journal	Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086261440145
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print (In Press) - 2026

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archipelagic relations
artmaking
collaborative writing
collectivity
emergent listening
other-than-human
singularities

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