Finish Project 3 performances on Monday (in Library)
Read John Cage texts from Silence for Wed, on myemich; skim/read through as much as you can to get a sense of Cage's project in terms of writing, lecturing, sound, performance, use of language, etc. We'll do Cage and Waldman in class (I'll bring the Waldman separately). Come prepared to share your thoughts! (Meet in Pray Harold)
Finish up your responses to others' project 3 works this week, and respond to Cage and Waldman for Friday.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Stuff to remember and think about
Make sure to post your performance text for project 3 on your blog. And spend some thoughtful time responding to everyone else's (1-2 comprehensive paragraphs) in terms of the following:
Give specific feedback/response. What did you like about the work, why? What interests you about the work, why? How/what does this make you think about your own work? Do you have suggestions or ideas about the project (not critique but in terms of engaging with the work?).
Project 4 preliminary guidelines:
You will have 20 minutes than may be extended somewhat if you like. You may do one long piece, or a series of short pieces that may or not be related in content. Consider the various elements of text-based performance that we've seen/heard/read/discussed over the course of the semester and the possibilities in terms of sound, dialogue, choreography, film/media/technology, the relation between the text and the performance, etc. and think specifically about what combinations of elements you want to include in your piece(s).
Include a cover sheet on which you write about your goals, ideas, process for this piece. Think of it as a poetics of the piece, or your "artist statement," and something about this work in relation to your other work over the course of the semester and whatnot.
Give specific feedback/response. What did you like about the work, why? What interests you about the work, why? How/what does this make you think about your own work? Do you have suggestions or ideas about the project (not critique but in terms of engaging with the work?).
Project 4 preliminary guidelines:
You will have 20 minutes than may be extended somewhat if you like. You may do one long piece, or a series of short pieces that may or not be related in content. Consider the various elements of text-based performance that we've seen/heard/read/discussed over the course of the semester and the possibilities in terms of sound, dialogue, choreography, film/media/technology, the relation between the text and the performance, etc. and think specifically about what combinations of elements you want to include in your piece(s).
Include a cover sheet on which you write about your goals, ideas, process for this piece. Think of it as a poetics of the piece, or your "artist statement," and something about this work in relation to your other work over the course of the semester and whatnot.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
This week: Steiner events Mon, Wed, Thur -- See schedule in post below
Wed: Steiner class visit -- read about him and his work through the links listed in post below and come prepared to have some discussion with him on Wed.
Blog: for Friday on Steiner's work, whatever you want to say about it from the performances or the links/info you read; be thoughtful and put some time into this; some of you have been slacking some on the blog posts, and these are worth 10 points every week!
Blog: if you haven't done last week's blog assignment on Baraka and Shange, see assignment in post below and do that asap. Also, spend some time reading each others' as they are posted and as you have time. We have had some breaks from meeting in class, and so I'd like to see some effort put into these out-of-class assignments/activities before we run out of time this semester. And I don't want to have to remind you and give extra time every week.
Next Week, Project 3:
For project 3, think about incorporating anything we've talked about so far (use of sound, dialogue, choreography, voice, stage direction/narration/explanation of performance aspects in the text) into a 15 minute presentation/performance of the text/work. At this point you should be thinking about the relation between your text and its performance, and ways in which you might note/explain/show this relationship on the page. Think of the text and the performance as at once the same and totally different; as each a kind of hybrid form of the other. How can the text and its performance exist simultaneously in concert, and also completely separately on their own terms?
Project 3 presentation schedule:
3/19: Emily C., Miranda
3/21: Kay, Matt M., Emily R.
3/26: Jonah, Melissa, Matt C.
*if you'd like to do yours on a different day, and someone else is willing to trade, that is fine as long as you let me know.
Wed: Steiner class visit -- read about him and his work through the links listed in post below and come prepared to have some discussion with him on Wed.
Blog: for Friday on Steiner's work, whatever you want to say about it from the performances or the links/info you read; be thoughtful and put some time into this; some of you have been slacking some on the blog posts, and these are worth 10 points every week!
Blog: if you haven't done last week's blog assignment on Baraka and Shange, see assignment in post below and do that asap. Also, spend some time reading each others' as they are posted and as you have time. We have had some breaks from meeting in class, and so I'd like to see some effort put into these out-of-class assignments/activities before we run out of time this semester. And I don't want to have to remind you and give extra time every week.
Next Week, Project 3:
For project 3, think about incorporating anything we've talked about so far (use of sound, dialogue, choreography, voice, stage direction/narration/explanation of performance aspects in the text) into a 15 minute presentation/performance of the text/work. At this point you should be thinking about the relation between your text and its performance, and ways in which you might note/explain/show this relationship on the page. Think of the text and the performance as at once the same and totally different; as each a kind of hybrid form of the other. How can the text and its performance exist simultaneously in concert, and also completely separately on their own terms?
Project 3 presentation schedule:
3/19: Emily C., Miranda
3/21: Kay, Matt M., Emily R.
3/26: Jonah, Melissa, Matt C.
*if you'd like to do yours on a different day, and someone else is willing to trade, that is fine as long as you let me know.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Steiner Visit Info and Scheduling
Steiner Visit Schedule March 12-15: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=986
If at all possible, please plan to attend the Mon. evening lecture/demonstration from 5-8pm at the Mix marketplace in Downtown Ypsi, one of the Wed. evening performances with Carla at the Dreamland Theater, and the Thur. night Cabaret.
Also, please become familiar with his work before next week by looking through the info and links below:
Konrad Steiner
makes short non-narrative films in the American experimental tradition of unipersonal production, winning awards and screening in festivals worldwide. His primary interest is to use the moving image as a medium for compositions in language, sound and cinematography.
http://canyoncinema.com/ catalog/filmmaker/?i=297
He served on the curatorial committee of San Francisco Cinematheque from 2003-2006. In 2007 he co-founded and produced (with Irina Leimbacher) the screening and performance series kino21.
The program calendar is archived at: http://www.kino21.org/
In the last five years, his work has increasingly involved live cinema collaborations with musicians (SF Bay Area composers Jon Raskin of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Matt Ingalls of SFSound, new music ensemble and big band leader Graham Connah) and poets (Leslie Scalapino, Steve Benson, Brent Cunningham, Carla Harryman and Jen Hofer).
In a longer term project since 2003, he has worked with dozens of writers from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Portland, Chicago, Buffalo and New York to produce shows dedicated to the renewed interest in adapting the tradition of live movie telling, an art which was brought to its apex in Japan, Korea and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. He will perform several of these "neo-benshi" pieces here at Bathhouse Events in March, in addition to screening single channel film works.
Article on live film narration from Camerawork journal:
http://www.kino21.org/PDF/ReverseEngineering.pdf
Recent events include:
o The New Talkies at Artists Television Access (SF)
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/archive/index-49036.html
o The Cinema Cabaret at REDCAT (LA) co-curated with Jen Hofer
http://www.redcat.org/event/cinema-cabaret
o Neo-benshi at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late032610
o Form Free Form at the St Marks Poetry Project (NY)
http://tinyurl.com/78jybld
o Chicago Poetry Center / Red Rover series
http://tinyurl.com/7njamo7
If at all possible, please plan to attend the Mon. evening lecture/demonstration from 5-8pm at the Mix marketplace in Downtown Ypsi, one of the Wed. evening performances with Carla at the Dreamland Theater, and the Thur. night Cabaret.
Also, please become familiar with his work before next week by looking through the info and links below:
Konrad Steiner
makes short non-narrative films in the American experimental tradition of unipersonal production, winning awards and screening in festivals worldwide. His primary interest is to use the moving image as a medium for compositions in language, sound and cinematography.
http://canyoncinema.com/ catalog/filmmaker/?i=297
He served on the curatorial committee of San Francisco Cinematheque from 2003-2006. In 2007 he co-founded and produced (with Irina Leimbacher) the screening and performance series kino21.
The program calendar is archived at: http://www.kino21.org/
In the last five years, his work has increasingly involved live cinema collaborations with musicians (SF Bay Area composers Jon Raskin of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Matt Ingalls of SFSound, new music ensemble and big band leader Graham Connah) and poets (Leslie Scalapino, Steve Benson, Brent Cunningham, Carla Harryman and Jen Hofer).
In a longer term project since 2003, he has worked with dozens of writers from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Portland, Chicago, Buffalo and New York to produce shows dedicated to the renewed interest in adapting the tradition of live movie telling, an art which was brought to its apex in Japan, Korea and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. He will perform several of these "neo-benshi" pieces here at Bathhouse Events in March, in addition to screening single channel film works.
Article on live film narration from Camerawork journal:
http://www.kino21.org/PDF/ReverseEngineering.pdf
Recent events include:
o The New Talkies at Artists Television Access (SF)
http://www.atasite.org/calendar/archive/index-49036.html
o The Cinema Cabaret at REDCAT (LA) co-curated with Jen Hofer
http://www.redcat.org/event/cinema-cabaret
o Neo-benshi at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late032610
o Form Free Form at the St Marks Poetry Project (NY)
http://tinyurl.com/78jybld
o Chicago Poetry Center / Red Rover series
http://tinyurl.com/7njamo7
Assignments for the rest of this week
After reading and discussing the Poets Theater pieces by Baraka and Shange, do some further reading and viewing on the web (see links below) and then write an extended blog response on their work for this Friday. Also, take some time this week to challenge yourself in your blogging. For example, if you have generally posted creative "responses" to the reading on your blog, try posting a more academic/analytical response this time. If you have been responding in more academic ways, try writing a more creative response.
Links (watch all of Baraka's Dutchman if you can, and look at the short clips on Shange to give you a better sense of her range of work, etc) :
Shange:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/147
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-11-03/film/for-colored-girls-tyler-perry-mangles-ntozake-shange-s-play/
http://www.videosurf.com/ntozake-shange-176591
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWnUjw2Bbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vDmVwOI-0Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZmvCsE-d4&feature=related
Baraka:
http://www.colorfultimes.com/2009/11/culture/film/dutchman-the-movie-55-mins/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amiri-baraka
Monday, 3/12: Please find me in/near the Starbucks on the 2nd floor of the student center between 2-4pm where I will be available to meet informally in lieu of meeting as a whole group in class. I will send a sign up sheet via email so you can have a time slot, or you can stop by anytime to talk if I am free.
Links (watch all of Baraka's Dutchman if you can, and look at the short clips on Shange to give you a better sense of her range of work, etc) :
Shange:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/147
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-11-03/film/for-colored-girls-tyler-perry-mangles-ntozake-shange-s-play/
http://www.videosurf.com/ntozake-shange-176591
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWnUjw2Bbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vDmVwOI-0Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZmvCsE-d4&feature=related
Baraka:
http://www.colorfultimes.com/2009/11/culture/film/dutchman-the-movie-55-mins/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amiri-baraka
And for next week :
Monday, 3/12: Please find me in/near the Starbucks on the 2nd floor of the student center between 2-4pm where I will be available to meet informally in lieu of meeting as a whole group in class. I will send a sign up sheet via email so you can have a time slot, or you can stop by anytime to talk if I am free.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
For week of March 5
Read from Poets Theater: Waldman, Baraka, Shange for Monday.
Wed we will not meet in class, but I will have an out-of-class assignment for you.
Please remember to post comments on everyone else's performances pieces on their blogs. There are some really excellent and thoughtful comments on there already, I'd like to see everyone's!
Wed we will not meet in class, but I will have an out-of-class assignment for you.
Please remember to post comments on everyone else's performances pieces on their blogs. There are some really excellent and thoughtful comments on there already, I'd like to see everyone's!
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