The Arctic Terns: An Archipelago of Emergent Singularities

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.