Emerging Writers Festival Workshop: The Book as Experimental Form, Emergent Structure (Live Action Test-Drive)

By and | 1 May 2014

In conjunction with the Emerging Writers Festival, Cordite Poetry Review is chuffed to present a workshop led by Astrid Lorange.

Location: The Wheeler Centre
Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm
Available spaces: 16

Book your free attendance here. Be snappy about it! There are limited spaces.

The Book As Experimental Form, Emergent Structure (live action test-drive)

Following on from Tan Lin’s (not to be confused with Tao Lin) ambient novels, Chris Caines and Zoë Sadokierski’s durational media objects, and Lisa Robertson’s notion of a soft architecture, this experimental, collaborative and procedural workshop will set out to make a book under the given constraints: a time, a place, a set of materials, a group of people, a collection of concepts, the gentle tugs of translation.

At the end of the session a set of texts and paratexts made under the auspices of the event will be finished, published and distributed as a collective work. The question of labour will underscore our shared effort.

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Astrid Lorange lectures at UNSW Art & Design. How Reading is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Her poetry books include Eating and Speaking, Minor Dogs, one that made it alike and FOOD TURNS INTO BLOOD. She co-edits SUS press.

http://www.astridlorange.tumblr.com

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Kent MacCarter is director of Cordite publishing Inc., publisher of Cordite Books and managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review. He is the author of four poetry collections – In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Sputnik's Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014), California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018) and Fat Chance (Upswell Publishing, 2024).

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