Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

Looking for:

-creative thinkers interested in the big ideas and the specifics which make them interesting, dedication, good communicators and collaborators who want to create a synergistic, dynamic, exciting, respectful learning experience.

-others who are interested in reading theory and experimenting with it (experimental critical writing), exploring and blurring the line between symbolic/real, creating and pairing art /music with theory/ideas/experimentation, liberation of meaning, constraints, and figuring out what that all means. Culminating in: the creation of The Book (using bookbinding, letterpress), and really expanding and being loose with the definition of "book." Hybridity = fabulous. Ideas: Analog-Digital, DVD, CD included, foldouts, popups, palimpsests, performative-happenings, prints (photography, printmaking etc), textiles, sound... lets do something that's never been done before... I'm thinking with grant money we could make a run of 100 copies. Of course this is all oh so flexible. If you like some of these ideas and want to incorporate your own skills and specific point of interest into this project- that's the idea.

Here's some ideas

Week 1-5

a)read texts: theory (gender, media, systems, semiotics/linguistics, author-reader dynamic), secondary texts explaining and riffing on theory, experimental fiction etc

b)talk about the text, ideas, and explain/learn with each other, watch films etc

c)"Fuck with shit"- S. Hendrics

-don't let the text read you

-liberate hidden possibilities of meanings hidden in the text

d) Make art, do whatever feels right for you in your artistic expression of these ideas/texts

Week 6-7/8

e) Make the book/books/art/stuff all come together as tangible objects

Week 9/10

f) Release Party/opening with readings/projections, images and other art (hung, projected etc), music or whatever else is created perhaps at Black Front, Capitol Theatre, Midnight Sun, or wherever we decide/what works out

Some theory/readings tossed around at Beauty Parlor and also some suggested by Steven Hendrics and Elizabeth:

Derrida, Barthes, Lacan

Deluze

Cixous, Irigaray

Foucault!

Butler

Rodrigo Toscano (Collapsable Poetics Theatre)

Susan Howe (The Non-Conformist's Memorial), Hassan Ihab, Rosemary Waldrop (poetic philosophic treaties),

House of Leaves

Sabald (The Rings of Saturn)

Wittgenstein

Alfred Jerry (The Science of Imaginary Solutions)