Writing Practice Forum+ Optional Workshop
Thursday 17 November (combined)
Writing Practice Forum 10am Thursday 17 November, Fine Art meeting room (behind Nigel’s office)
This forum offers a place to informally discuss how writing is situated within art practice. This week’s meeting will be an opportunity to share any material or ideas you are developing that involve writing or text in your studio work.
‘Writing’ is considered in an expansive sense: poetry, art writing, script, fiction – but also notions of text, creative/responsive readings, writing as curation, book arts and so on – as we aim to put some pressure on the relation between verbal and non-verbal mediums.
Optional Writing Workshop
11am, Fine Art meeting room
Renee Gladman: Prose architecture 252 (2017)
In this session we’ll be thinking about what ‘translation’ can mean for poetry. This will involve considering translation in an expanded sense, by looking at ‘bad’ or ‘unfaithful’ practices like homophonic translation and games with Google Translate. We’ll also be wondering whether interactions between word and image also constitute a version of ‘translation’. (Note: no bilingual skills necessary!)
Places for workshop limited – email to reserve. sam.buchan-watts@newcastle.ac.uk
You are encouraged to come to both sessions; if you can only make one that’s fine, just let me know.