SCHEDULE
FRIDAY APRIL 09
2:00PM > WELCOME
TISA BRYANT, DIRECTOR OF MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
2:15PM > DISSONANT FLASHBACK: 2020 INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ROUNDTABLE
SAM CREELY + PIA SAZANI (DANCE NOTES), MARYAM KAZEEM (THE ARCHIVE ON AFRICAN TIME), SHIRLEY KIM-RYU + JEN D'MELLO (OPULENCE, BE MY EYES)
All 2020 symposium presentations for roundtable available here.
>> DanceNotes Chaplet Series is a publishing project co-created and -edited by Sam Creely and Pia Sazani that leans into dance’s historically unsuccessful relationship with written documentation. If notation is an instrument for comprehension, preservation, and iteration, DanceNotes is an experiment in notation dedicated to refractory, malleable, and plural knowledges, and to re-contextualized genealogies of movement.
>> The Archive on African Time is a conversation between writer Maryam Kazeem and visual artist Zina Saro-Wiwa about 'African time' as an alternative temporality that not only creates but demands new ways of negotiating with archives.
>>Taking its title from a poem by Shirley Kim-Ryu, Opulence, Be My Eyes, began as a conversation between Kim-Ryu and Jen D’Mello about bacteria, fermentation, thresholds, and death's regenerative capacity. The pandemic that occurred a few months later required us to revisit our thoughts and feelings about death and possibility. The ways in which we experienced how inextricably linked we are to other living beings from day-to-day was changing drastically. Unable to continue being in close proximity to others, we began conjuring memories of our loved ones’ presence and invoking memories of touch, or the smell of blooming trees and wildflowers.
3:15PM > INSPIRE
AARON J
>> INSPIRE performs a collection of poems written by a range of poets, and is a celebration of their past and present influence, as well as an invitation to share in their inspirational power.
3:45PM > BREAK
4:00PM > TRANSPOETICS: THE LYRICISM OF TRANSMASCULINE VOCALIZATION
TATUM HOWEY
>> The trans body is always spoken for. Who breathes me out and away? You do. How do we locate the body in the disorientating after-image of a history that is not quite our history? In an effort to move towards an understanding of the double consciousness of living as a trans person, Transpoetics: The lyricism of transmasculine vocalization is an attempt to explore the nauseating relationship the subject has with itself, and how the trans condition is in many ways the difficulty of being a subject at all. Part lecture, part performance, criticism for the trans poet.
4:35PM > [DE]CYPHER
ZENO SCOTT
>> u must [de]cypher & investigate then unwrap ur subconscious...
there is a composite colossus of
dumb logic
lodged in ur coccyx;
Only you can stop it.
5:05PM > BREAK
6:00PM > YOU BETTER HUSH: BLACKTRACKING A VISUAL POETICS
DOUGLAS KEARNEY, BAGLEY WRIGHT LECTURE
BILLY A. SANDERS, ASL INTERPRETING
>> Aretha and the Iceman, J-Dilla, Susan Howe, and a bird that becomes a fish only to become a bird, flower, then a bird again meet up in this lecture about visuality/visibility (Evie Shockley) and the textual/textural. Poet Douglas Kearney will discuss what draws him to visual poetry, the disruptive pleasure of collage’s cut, recognition as a strategy that places reading in tension with looking, and the genealogy of a threat from a spiritual to 1990s gangsta rap. *ASL interpreting for the Bagley Wright Lecture by Billy A. Sanders, courtesy of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series.
SATURDAY APRIL 10
10:00AM > OPENING
TISA BRYANT, DIRECTOR OF MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
10:15AM > MORE RUPTURE THAN SUTURE
ICA SADAGAT WITH YASMINA PRICE
>> More Rupture Than Suture is a conversational and durational essay at breaking time, cosmologies, and reassemblage.
11:30AM > JIMMY EET WORLD
JIMMY VEGA
>> jimmy eet world is an exploration/interrogation of remix poetics/a presentation of original/remixed work/a collaboration remix reading/construction.
12:00PM > PIPPI’S PLACE: ARCHETYPES OF GENDER AND THE UNDERWORLD
CHANCE VERNON
>> Through presentation of methods of developing a space, rather than a story—with prose, poetry, song, ritual, set design, and props—Chance Vernon explores how creating an underworld neighborhood dive bar for Wonder Woman, Demeter, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer became a way to break free of narrative, expand frameworks for interrogating gender and escape resolution.
12:35PM > BREAK
1:30PM > RECONVENING
AMANDA BEECH, DEAN OF CRITICAL STUDIES
1:40PM > ARTISTS TALK / MIXER
2:30PM > VISUAL PROCESSING
JENNIE PARK
>> Writing alongside a visual arts practice that ranges from kinetic sculptures to socially engaged art, Jennie Park will present on the critical and creative spurs currently driving recent and upcoming projects.
3:00PM > TRANSFORMING POP CULTURE ONE FRAME AT A TIME
RUTH JOHNSON AND AARAF AFZAL
>> In this pre-recorded conversation, which includes screenings of the panelists' own work, Aaraf Afzal and Ruth Johnson discuss the craft and nonconformity of video essays, which typically analyze an artifact of popular culture.
3:35PM > BREAK
4:00PM > FORM/DEFORM/REFORM
LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM AND MICHAEL LEONG
>> Form/Deform/Reform is a conversation about poetry and poetics using Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's Travesty Generator (2019) as a jumping off point.
5:20PM > LATINXPERIMENTANDO
KENNETH REVEIZ, ROSA EVANGELINA, AND JULIA SAENZ LORDUY
>> In this panel-performance, writers Rosa Evangelina, Kenneth Reveiz, and Julia Saenz Lorduy will explore how questions of brownness, Latinidad and a Latinx aesthetic inform and impact their work.
6:35PM > CLOSE
TISA BRYANT, DIRECTOR OF MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM