FEMINIST POETICS, EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES
FEMINIST POETICS, EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES
Symposium: Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Los Angeles, CA
May 11 & 12, 2018
Hosted by Margaret Rhee and Andrea Quaid
All events free and open to the public.
I'm excited for this week's Feminist Poetics, Emerging Pedagogies symposium in Los Angeles. I'll be on a panel discussion Friday with Tia Blassingame, erika kaufman, and Celina Su at 1:30 pm, participating in a group reading at the Poetic Research Bureau that night, and giving a workshop on Saturday at 1:30. The website is here: http://www.feministpoeticsemergentpedagogies.com/
My workshop will be about language as somatic connection:
Fully Wired & Hanging by a Thread: Choreographing a Rendezvous with the Radical Past “[M]en have successively conquered a sense of the house, the neighborhood in which they live, the city, the region, the continent,” wrote F.T. Marinetti in his 1913 manifesto on the “wireless imagination”: “Today man possesses a sense of the world; he has only a modest need to know what his forebears have done, but a burning need to know what his contemporaries are doing in every part of the globe.” How can we construct a feminist response to these claims in the 21st century? The Futurists’ call for a globalized and strictly contemporary imagination has been consummated in the age of teeming landfills and the digital cloud—an environment that promises more access to information about the past than ever, but relies on amnesia and the ruse of disembodiment in order to progress.
This is a laboratory for scoring alternative fates by remembering, ragpicking, weaving, and performing somatic scores of connection to radical elders, resisting patriarchal history and the amnesia of the virtual feed. Departing from the two dimensions of the screen and page, we will tap the deep past of poetics and generate our own webs of memory and unlearning in the spirit of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Word and Thread”: “A word once written risks becoming linear, but word and thread exist on another dimensional plane. Vibratory forms in space and in time. Acts of union and separation.” Through experiments in pulling words and ephemeral artifacts into lines and knots, we will score cross-historical communications outtakes, playing with the kinetic possibilities of entangled language. Logistics: Needles and kite string will be provided; participants are asked to bring along some text and/or a series of small, light, cheap, disposable objects that they may associate with a cherished figure from another generation.
Symposium Schedule
Friday, May 11 at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010
12:00-1:15 Welcome, opening remarks with Andrea & Margaret, and potluck
1:30-3:00 Featured Speaker Roundtable: Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Tia Blassingame, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, erica kaufman, Jennifer Scappettone, Celina Su
3:15-4:45 Panel: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity Emma Gomis and Corinne Dekkers: A Poetics of Convergence Jen Hofer and traci kato-kiriyama: Solidarity as Lens, Listening as Spark
5:00-6:00 Workshop: Improvising the World – a Radical Pedagogical Activity/Experiment Breakout Session Ching-In Chen
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Poetry Reading with symposium participants at Poetic Research Bureau, 951 Chung King Road, LA 900127:30: Doors open; 8:00: Reading
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Saturday, May 12 at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010
9:00-10:30Panel: Feminist Technologies, Utopias, Digitality Mashinka Firunts: Feminist Interventions in Bot Pedagogy Alexandra Juhasz: Fake News Poetry Workshop Eireene Nealand: Coordinative Architectures: Embodying Social Media Janet Sarbanes: Reframing the House of Dust at CalArts: A Meditation on Radical Pedagogy
10:45-12:15 Panel: Troubling the Human Animal “I” Gabrielle Civil, Brenda Iijima, Janice Lee, Soham Patel
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Featured Speaker Workshops (concurrent sessions) Tia Blassingame: Primrose Press 'Zine Workshop Lynne DeSilva-Johnson: emBODY Work / Student emBODY :: The Radical Recentering of Somatic Experience in Practices and Pedagogy erica kaufman: "it might be a large speech time": epic feminisms, feminist epic Jennifer Scappettone: Fully Wired & Hanging by a Thread: Choreographing a Rendezvous with the Radical Past Celina Su: Engaging Documentation as Intervention: Refusals, Subtexts, Polyvocalities as Poetic Practices
3:00-4:30 Panel: Diasporic Hybrid Poetics & Pedagogies: Modalities of Renewal and Magik Angela Peñaredondo, Rachelle Cruz, Micah Tasaka, MT Vallarta
4:45-6:15 Panel: Classroom Embodiments, Archives, and Self-Care Liz Asch Greenhill: Self-Care Now: Experiencing the Poetics of Embodied Lyric Language Amanda Montei: Maternal Embodiment in the College Classroom Jon Rutzmoser: Practicing Neuroqueerness: Towards a Pedagogy of Dis-Rhetoricity Adrienne Walser: Our Education Commitments: Public-School Teaching and Feminist Pedagogy