Short Pieces That Move! is a reading and writing group begun in 2018, in the context of the Masters Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. With the onset of COVID 19, the group moved out of the institution and onto an online pad. The group diversified, expanded, and now gathers regularly online to think, read and write responsively together. Our interest is in how an existing piece of writing moves, its directions and turns, and how these moves can be modified or repurposed to initiate new movements in readers and the world. Our emphasis is on collective learning and permission-giving: the permission to experiment, sometimes for the first time, with writing, and to work with or against English as a material.
Since January 2023, SPTM also publishes: usually a set of four pamphlets at a time, usually twice a year. The editorial collective is Annabelle Binnerts, Linus Bonduelle, Kate Briggs and Ash Kilmartin; often assisted by Tim Coster (proofreading) and Bart Lunenberg (photography).
The SPTM! crew have held in-person workshops at Same Page art book fair, Melbourne; BOZAR, Brussels; the Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven; and Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam.