What words do we convey with our bodies? How can we craft intersections between body and text? In this seminar, we’ll look to the poems/performance writings of Gabrielle Civil, somatic rituals of CAConrad, instruction pieces of Yoko Ono, lecture-performances of Ralph Lemon, and audio walks of Janet Cardiff in order to generate our own writing and performance. In this generative workshop, we’ll consider and create works that live at the intersection of words and performance art. We’ll focus on the ways the body and everyday objects can reframe the mundane. Together we’ll explore the edges of performance and text, playing with the boundaries between genres while utilizing the space of Table Conversation to bring newly created works to life. We’ll also consider the relationship between time, bodies, and space as players in the stories we tell, the poems we write. Over the course of 2 hours, we’ll engage with embodied writing and performance as a lens to examine what it means to exist in our bodies, in our time, with each of our own particular hearts and minds.
This course is for writers and performers of all levels, for anyone looking to expand their toolkit of ways to enter into a creative headspace. Participants will leave with excerpts and frameworks to create larger pieces of embodied writing. Together we’ll discuss readings, examine audio-visual performance artifacts, and engage in generative exercises.
Please bring writing tools of your choosing—phone, computer, or notebook will do! Come prepared to both move and write.
What words do we convey with our bodies? How can we craft intersections between body and text? In this seminar, we’ll look to the poems/performance writings of Gabrielle Civil, somatic rituals of CAConrad, instruction pieces of Yoko Ono, lecture-performances of Ralph Lemon, and audio walks of Janet Cardiff in order to generate our own writing and performance. In this generative workshop, we’ll consider and create works that live at the intersection of words and performance art. We’ll focus on the ways the body and everyday objects can reframe the mundane. Together we’ll explore the edges of performance and text, playing with the boundaries between genres while utilizing the space of Table Conversation to bring newly created works to life. We’ll also consider the relationship between time, bodies, and space as players in the stories we tell, the poems we write. Over the course of 2 hours, we’ll engage with embodied writing and performance as a lens to examine what it means to exist in our bodies, in our time, with each of our own particular hearts and minds.
This course is for writers and performers of all levels, for anyone looking to expand their toolkit of ways to enter into a creative headspace. Participants will leave with excerpts and frameworks to create larger pieces of embodied writing. Together we’ll discuss readings, examine audio-visual performance artifacts, and engage in generative exercises.
Please bring writing tools of your choosing—phone, computer, or notebook will do! Come prepared to both move and write.
