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

Dear study group,
 
In our first seminar, we will introduce Publishing Practices’ trajectories, stories, images, sounds, and theories. We will engage in forms of studying together taking the cues from the expression "study for and with." In particular, we will reflect on the word "text" and the art of seaming, weaving, and suturing modes of being together through readings, meditations, walking, and video and audio sessions. We will therefore practice our first collective experiment of "texting" our interests and motivations.

 

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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