COOP ~ Publishing Practices: Textauralities, Oralitures, Corpoliteracies from Month to Month
Seminar 4: 8 - 10 March 2023
Translation, Transcription, Transmutation
There are five semiotic systems — the aural, gestural, linguistic, spatial, and visual. There is said to be one mother tongue.
This session, we will reflect on dictation, transcription, and the im-possible task of the translator. Here, translation implies a transference; from one side to another, or one language to the next. Historically, the discipline bears its own aesth-ethical implications. Equivalence, mutability, and multiplicity can augment the voices on a single page.
We will engage with the translingual dimensions of print. Our studies will include works by Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Gayatri C. Spivak, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Adelkebir Khatibi, Hortense Spillers, and Yasunari Kawabata.
Wednesday 8th March — Transcription
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
Text: A Prayer In The Mother Tongue, Yasunari Kawabata
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Practice
On Paper: Genealogies
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00 Experiment
Listening Session: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Thursday 9th March — Translation
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Presentation and discussion
“I’ll Get you There”: Translation, Aesth-Ethics and The Undercommons
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 19:00: Practice
On Paper: The Diseuse
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Dreaming session: Learning from Jacob’s Dream
Friday 10th March — Transmutation
10:00: 13:00: Assembly
Morning Reading
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 19:00: Practice
On Paper: The Page
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Open Farewell
Seminar 2 & 3: 14 - 19 January 2023
The Absolute Image
However tentative, the history of writing begins in ancient Sumer. Early scripts emerged from crop rotations and accounting — with farmers tracing lines to mark the seasons, moonrise and sunset. Other methods included knots for counting herds. The first autobiographies popularized the book as a subjective narration of verifiable events. Later, the modern novel introduced ‘I’ at the center of the story. Today, the book is inseparable from a long history of property, economics, and self.
At Nida we will consider the possibility, and impossibility, of the book as an absolute report. Or the absolute image. This week will reflect on print, experimental filmmaking, recordings, diaries, and archives as narrative devices — both personal and collective. We will discuss the problematics and horizons of subjective narration, editorial transgression, and environmental text to challenge print as an authoritative medium. Our studies will include works by Jonas Mekas, NouberSe Philip, Pauline Oliveros, reflections on deterioration, radiation, documentary filmmaking, archives, and forest spells.
This session welcomes Yaniya Lee, art writer and editor at Archive Books. Her archival investigations consider methods for organizing historical material. Lee will share her current research on the formation of a new Black Canadian Art History.
Saturday 14th January — Proto-Writing
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 19:00: Practice
Nothing Happens, Everything Happens
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Screening of Jonas Mekas; As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Sunday 15th January — Immaterial Text
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
Text: Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), Akira Mizuta Lippit
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 18:00: Practice
The Path of the Cloud
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Vision Presentations
Monday 16th January — Songs and Spells
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
Text: Songs and Spells
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 18:00: Practice
An Inherited Song
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Listening Session
Monday 17th January — Archives
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
Text: Labour Ambivalence and Vulnerability in Joyce Wienland’s Film Hand Tinting, Yaniya Lee
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 18:00: Practice
No Archive Can Restore You
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Screening of Cheryl Dunye; The Watermelon Woman
Tuesday 18th January — Übertragung
10:00 - 13:00: Assembly
Close reading and discussion
Text: In Defense of The Poor Image, Hito Steryl
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 18:00: Practice
Extended Appointments
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Experiment
Preparation for Sunrise
Wednesday 19th January — Environmental Text
7:00 - 10:00: Assembly
Sunrise Session
10:00 - 13:00: Practice
Deep Listening
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 19:00: Kitchen Proposals
19:00 - 20:00: Dinner
20:00 - 22:00: Open Farewell
Seminar 1: 22 - 24 November 2022
Tuesday 22nd November
Morning 10:30-13:00
10:30: Welcome gathering, presentation of the group
11:00 Chiara introduces Publishing Practices’ (PP) trajectories
11:30 Emanuela discusses theories, writing, and editing PP’s conceptual frame
12:00 Reactions, questions, comments
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon 14:00-18:30
14:00 Study "for and with": Some notes from the tutors
14:45 Notes from the students
15:30 Break
16:00 -18:30 Exercise: Text your way of being together
19:30 Dinner
Evening 20:30-22:00
20:30- 22:00 Presenting your texting (sounds, images, poems, objects, etc.)
Wednesday 23rd November
Morning 10:30-13:00
10:30 Reading together Seaming, Frayed and Fragmenting by Catherine Dormor + some poems to be handed out
11:30 Student-led session on reaction to the reading
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon 14:00-18:30
14:00 Text as Suturing: Brief Statements about Text as "Tantra" and Vocal Chord + some artistic examples
14:30 Break
14:45-18:00 Exercise: artistic meditations and poems on ways of suturing wor(l)ds
19:30 Dinner
Evening 20:30-22:00
20:30 1 hour Reiki relaxation music
21:30 Student-led relaxation session
Thursday 24th November
Morning 10:30-13:00
10:30 Walking session inspired by Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing
11:30 Going to the school of roots, flowers, and dreams: sitting, breathing + reading of some excerpts
13:00 Lunch
Afternoon 14:00-18:30
14:00 Screening TBA
15:30 Like a sewing machine: songs and counterpoints.
16:15 Break
17:15 Stitching, weaving, and knitting with no pattern
Evening 20:00-22:00
Intricate Con-vivius or the art of living together Student-led dinner-evening on conviviality: food, video, dance, and sound
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