here is the blurb for our critical writing workshop, Writers Hub:
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WRITING LIVE: WRITERS HUB FEATURED AS PART OF
PERFORMA 07, THE SECOND EDITION OF THE BIENNIAL
OF NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE
TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY
OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 20, 2007
Building on the success of NOT FOR SALE, the dynamic education series initiated in 2004 in anticipation of the first PERFORMA biennial in 2005, PERFORMA is pleased to announce WRITING LIVE.
This peer review forum has been specially designed in support
of a new generation of artists, authors, and critics engaged in discussions around prescient issues in performance and new media, and the related task of writing about art and artists
whose work encompasses several disciplines at once.
WRITING LIVE will involve an international group of curators, critics and emerging writers,bringing together a unique mix of different voices in a network of critical writing and debate around PERFORMA 07.
Throughout the biennial writers will participate in WRITING LIVE: WRITERS HUB a rolling program of practical writing workshops
kicked off with keynote remarks by RoseLee Goldberg and David Levi Strauss (Tues 30, Oct, 11am – 3pm). Writers Hub will also comprise collective peer review platforms (Tues 13 Nov, 12 – 2pm & Tues 20 Nov, 12 – 2pm) designed with a longer-term aim of sustaining conversations around art writing on contemporary performance. A special session will take place at Freemans Restaurant (Nov 9, 1 – 3pm) to coincide with Bring Me The Head
of… a sculpture by Serkan Özkaya co-presented by PERFORMA and Freemans. In addition, writers will contribute to PERFORMA07 Writing Live blog by posting entries of reviews, daily round-ups, behind the scenes previews, opinion and interviews with
biennial artists and curators.
See the Writing Live blog at: http://07.performaarts.org/performa_live.php
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the workshop programme sounds very official and great (as well as slightly terrifying) no?. Roselee and david levis strauss very repected professionals in their field, i only hope our nerves dont get the better of us when mary, rebecca and i are leading the workshop on the day. we are also dscussing pulling something 'spontaneous' out of the hat, ie not in the programme, to see how all the writers react in terms of their responses. should be a good day. im also looking forward to' eating the head' at Freemands restaraunt at the second peer review session. its a proper restaraunt with a peice of performance art on the menu-delicious!
also-just to say-AN kindly (thanks gillian) gave us money to promote Interface activity whilst in NY, so in our handouts for the workshop people will get all kinds of papers and buisiness cards. we hope the writers both young and old (not in age terms-but experience!) will be keen to know about interface, after all. as a writer its everything you can do to get your stuff read and disseminated out to the maximum amount of people. And to have it on an official looking site-as opposed to myspace-with a high number of readers is ideal.
bye for now.
ill update you on the mad day i had in NY in a later blog. needless to say i have at least one new freind (subway station guy-hello gerry!) and one new enemy-crazy guy on the subway- he should have known better than to mess with an english woman!
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