Yuki Kéké Tam & Abi Hodson
© Photo Credits: Camouflage and Collage workshop facilitated by Abi Hodson in partnership with HOSI and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photographer: Abi Hodson
Cut-Up Letters Workshop with Yuki Kéké Tam & Abi Hodson
Sunday, February 22, 2026 from 2 to 3:30 PM.
Please arrive on time, no pre-registration required.
Workshop is facilitated in English but all languages are welcome.
Led by artists Abi Hodson and Yuki Kéké Tam, Cut-Up Letters is a 1.5-hour participatory writing and collage workshop that uses epistolary practices as tools for intimacy, care, and relational exchange. Drawing from traditions of letter-writing, cut-up poetry, and collaborative authorship, the workshop invites participants to reflect on what it means to write to and with others.
Tam and Hodson will start the workshop with a 10-15 minute introduction where they will situate epistolary writing as a site of connection and share aspects of their own practices that centre letter-writing and community-building by creating a relational web. They will then guide participants through the two workshop activities.
In the first activity, participants engage in a private, intimate letter-writing exercise guided by gentle writing prompts that encourage sensory awareness, trust, and experimentation.. These letters remain private and are a space for honesty, vulnerability, and self-reflection. The emphasis is on the process, allowing participants to write without an audience, exploring style, voice, and tone. In the second part, the participants make a photocopy of their intimate letters and are guided to physically cut them up into fragments of text. Using these fragments, participants compose a letter to give to someone else in the room. This exchange foregrounds consent, generosity, and the poetic possibilities that emerge when personal language becomes collective material.
The workshop concludes with an optional sharing circle, where participants may reflect on their experience, share insights, or exchange letters if they choose. Snacks and tea will be available throughout, supporting a relaxed and hospitable atmosphere.
Abi Hodson and Yuki Kéké Tam bring extensive experience in facilitating community-centred, care-driven spaces through their interdisciplinary artistic practices. Together, they create a workshop that balances intimacy, vulnerability, and play, offering participants a meaningful encounter with writing as a shared, transformative act.
Facilitators
© Photo Credits: Malik McKoy, 2025.
Yuki Kéké Tam (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator of Chinese descent living on Turtle Island (colonial Canada). In their multi-disciplinary practice, they examine quiet resistance and care woven into everyday life. Their practice is currently nurtured through a Masters of Fine Arts (Concordia University) with funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec and their previous Bachelors of Arts double major in Studio Arts and Human Rights & Equities (York University). Their work has been featured in Canada and internationally at the International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking, Artists, Concepts and Techniques Conference, the Arts and Interdisciplinary Research Journal (Airea), the Toronto public transit system (TTC), and SNAPLine magazine.
© Photo Credits: Abi Hodson, by William Dicks, 2025.
Abi Hodson (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist living between Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal where they are completing an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University. Their practice is grounded in fibres and collage, often using video, movement, sculpture, and zine-making. They also facilitate spaces where participants can collaborate and build community. Through their work Abi investigates the relationships of intimate bodies, collective bodies, and the matter existing between these bodies. They focus on earnest, playful, and eerie sensation explorations, seeking to spark curiosity, delight, and generative discordance. Their upcoming solo show, “Peep show: Parallel loops, Porous lines,” opens March 9, 2026, at the FOFA Gallery in Montréal.
Accessibility
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