following on from the mtg on friday 9th nov at the restaraunt im enclosing here the agenda from this tuesdays 13th nov writing workshop session (the second in the series). Boring for some-perhaps, not for others, so i thought id post it here anyways. freemans was more informal and group discussion, so we decided to keep structure and content for tuesdays session really tight. it was a really useful session, bopth for the three writing fellows and the other writers-who fed back to us in the session their thoughts. looking at other media examples of performance coverage in bliogs, UK and US mainstream media really helped to pick oput the problems / challenges about writing about performance and led on to really useful discussion about our own texts in the peer review breakout session. some tough words were given out-and received!
RLxx
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Writers Hub Workshop Schedule
Tuesday 13th November
12.00 – 2.00 pm
SVA
Workshop materials Handouts
Adrian Searle article (Guardian)
Naked Attic article (Naked Attic blog)
Gary Cooper article (Time Out London)
Holland Cotter article (NY Times)
Introductory essay in Performa05 catalogue – Roselee Goldberg
Individual texts from Performa blog.
12.00 Intro
Thanks to everyone
Logistics
12.05 Schedule
Description of what we’re going to do today and why:
- Together we will look at some examples (some bad some good) of writing by other authors to discuss challenges of writing about performance
- We will then break into groups to discuss our individual texts
- We will then re-group, feedback about our discussion then talk about general problems associated with writing about performance
- We will then have a short talk about the work in Performa-looking at roselee’s essay.
- Finally, we will discuss what is going to happen at next week’s meeting
12.15 – 12.45 Other Writers
Media examples and writing from performance
a) Naked Attic – writing about difficult work, doing justice to the work – what’s your responsibility in terms of knowledge?
b) Adrian Searle – complex event that is beyond mainstream classification, written about in mainstream media print, is it contextualized? Is it transmitted to the audience?
c) Holland Carter – good survey, lots of information, plus some very succinct and knowledgeable critique about performance, including difficult events. Critique also good-ie not all positive.
d) Gary Carter – tone, voice, playing with the writing. Experimental but also completely accessible. Introduction for writers into performative or performance style of writing.
12.45 – 1.10
Peer Critique
Break up into two groups and discuss our writing-each group reading a blog post and commenting on it as per the other media examples.
1.10 – 2
Come back to report on feedback about writing. Discuss Challenges of writing about performance:
- describing the work and including the details
- the problem of knowledge – defining the context, but also furthering knowledge, and making work accessible for new audioences.
- Writing about ephemeral performance events
– Discussion of the work in Performa
1.50 Next Week
Next week we are planning on a longer peer-critique session
Does anyone else have any ideas?
What else would we like to do?
Any feedback, etc.?
