2024-2025 FROM CONFLUENCE TO CONFLUENCE ~ Grant Watson's seminar: Queer Forms
SEMINAR 1: DECEMBER 7 & 8 2024
The seminar at Nida will introduce queer experimental writing through the preface to Tyler Bradway’s book, in which he develops the notion of ‘bad reading’ to explore a relationship to text beyond or alongside academic protocols. Bradway shifts attention from the reader to the form the experimental writing takes. Asking what collage, quotation, narrative disjunction, or repetition might produce for the reader? The importance of reading and writing as creative practice (and life practice) will be explored through filmed interviews with the psychotherapist Suely Rolnik and artist Latipa (née Michelle Dizon). A second set of readings will include Robert Glück’s short essay ‘Long Note on New Narrative’ from ‘Communal Nude’ and excerpts from his novel ‘About Ed.’ Students will be invited to select passages from the latter to discuss. A key element of this seminar will be the dissertation writing workshop in which everyone is given the opportunity to share material. At Nida we will also be joined by DAI graduate Valeria Moro who will discuss her experience of dissertation writing and how she considers taking this forward.
Schedule
Saturday 7
AM - Introduction, GW presentation, reading Tyler Bradway.
PM – filmed interviews, movement, conversation with Valeria Moro
Sunday 8
AM – Reading Robert Glück, excerpts selected by students
PM – Dissertation workshop, movement, film, seminar forward planning
Readings
1. Preface (pp v – xiii) Bradway, T. (2017) Queer Experimental Literature, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
2. Long Note on New Narrative (pp 13 – 25) - Glück, R. (2016) Communal Nude Collected Essays, South Pasadena: Semiotext(e)
3. Pages 51 – 152 - Glück, R. (2023) About Ed, New York: New York Review of Books
4. Dissertation excerpts - Ariell Zéphyr, Anna Buyvid
