Dear All,
First, I decided that instead of sending you the short readings, since they are SO short, I will go over them with you as part of short lecture Weds. Hence….
Below is a slightly tweaked list of the groups, tweaked based on connections formed by you last Saturday. Though it was really good that particular students could form connections and thus build something together, it occurred because too many of you were absent. Saturday class is not an option. I love all of you and want to see your faces and hear your thoughts – but in the end, your absence doesn’t effect me all that much. It DOES effect your student collaborators. From here on, it’ll be very little of me blabbing, the majority of the time spent working on performative events. So, please be responsible to your peers and be in class.
Okay, I think you get the point, indeed got the point before I began writing this. SO, onto what is below – first, the new group list (only a small change), and second, the schedule and due dates (or benchmarks) for certain things. The first major bench mark is described in detail below–that of the project proposal, due by Saturday at the end of class. See below.
I will be sending all of you a second email with the short readings for tomorrow. Really just a couple pieces that are citations of collaborative work, plus links to helpful websites on collaborative writing and constraints, procedures, etc. So, more in a bit.
For now, do look!
Best,
David
1) Rachel
Wendy
Andrea
Jacob
Hayes
2) Gabe
Rick
Claire
Diann
3) Anna
Shannon
Zachary
Heather
4) Whitney
Elan
Gianna
Cody
5) Amanda
Jane
Adam
Cara
6)
Hayes
Croft
Nigel
SCHEDULE:
NOW: be in email contact with one another, circulating your notes from last Saturday
By SAT, WEEK 7: have figured out a time to meet outside of class for 1 or more hours each week from now till the end of the quarter. Meetings, though ideally in person, can be phone or email check ins as well, work and other program schedule dictating how and when meetings will take place.
By SAT, WEEK 7: PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE. (See below for details)
WEEK 9: Rob Halpern, NONSITE COLLECTIVE, and Sarah Mangold, BIRD DOG PRESS will be working with us, along with a Weds evening reading and q&a.
WEEK 10 & 11 (I will talk more about this in class): SHARING/EXHIBITING/READING OF PERFORMATIVE EVENTS as well as end of year party. Default days for sharing will be both Wednesdays during class time. However, some groups may require that we try to attend work “performed” during other days of those weeks, in spaces other than the classroom or a house. NOTE: there usually is no week 11, but scheduling conflicts, plus Saturday class factor, are such that we will probably want to do performative events both Wednesdays, with some groups (who can stick around for eval week), sharing second. Again, we’ll discuss this and come to some consensus tomorrow.
PROJECT PROPOSALS:
By methods determined in group (consensus model, one person writing on behalf of, dictatorial, tyrannical, etc), email me the following (again, by this upcoming Saturday, Week 7):
1) What, in 1-2 paragraphs, your performative event is, and importantly, in what sense it is answering the central question of the course – absent normative definitions of “poetry,” “creative writing,” “performance,” etc (or absent at least one of these), what can “performing the text” come to mean? In this 1-2 paragraph description, be as clear and precise as possible about what it is you will be doing.
2) In a following few lines, describe how you will accomplish (1), what your basic schedule is, your basic working model, and, if discussed, your organizational politics.
3) Describe what materials you will be using, and how you will be procuring them if you don’t already have them.
4) Make mention of any assistance – technical, material, or otherwise - you think you may need.
5) What sort of “public” will this work demand? How do you envision this work being “performed,” “read,” “displayed,” “wrestled with,” etc?
THE PROJECT PROPOSAL ITSELF SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 1-2 PAGES. MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE INFORMATION NECESSARY. THE PROPOSAL SHOULD SERVE NOT ONLY AS INFORMATION FOR ME (SO THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND AND CRITIQUE AND SUPPORT YOUR WORK), BUT IT SHOULD SERVE AS A WORKING MODEL AND OUTLINE FOR YOUR GROUP.
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