Mario Bellatin's Dynamic School of Writers - collective creation network in literary writing

Abstract

In this article we will discuss the Dynamic School of Writers (Escola Dinâmica de Escritores - EDDE), created and directed by the Peruvian-Mexican writer Mario Bellatin in Mexico City, based on the Critique of Creative Processes by Cecília Almeida Salles. In our analysis, we observed that EDDE is structured as a collective space for literary creation based on the mirroring of creative principles by the writer Mario Bellatin, systematized and organized by him in the form of content and practical activities. Thereby, the school is based on values ​​that coincide with Bellatin's “process tendencies”, nonetheless, it is open to the participation and contribution of teachers and students, incorporating the unforeseen, chance, and nonlinearity into its dynamics. Therefore, itself can be read as a large network under development, as conceptualized by Salles. With this study, we intend to initiate a broadly discussion about creative workshops as privileged spaces in the analysis and discussion of the paths of contemporary artistic creation in its interface regarding educational propositions, as well as contribute to the development of theoretical reflections on processes of artistic creation in the field of Cecília Almeida Salles’s Critique of creative processes.