Hi,
I wasn't kidding in wanting to launch a series of 'writers' books' a
couple of years back. Together with Kirsten Lavers I teach a course
on Bookworks that has spanned between Performance Writing and Visual
Performance as an interdisciplinary elective at Dartington and we
plan to run this course elsewhere. So, although you're basically
right Elizabeth about Bookmaking (there's an MA at Roehampton that
comes under Allen Fisher's remit) being in art colleges, there are
moves afoot. The first writers' book we published btw was Aaron
Williamson and Tertia Longmire's 'Energies of Writing'. Of course,
being a collaboration to boot, almost nobody took any interest. But
there are a number of poets who have made 'bookworks' and many of
them are currently on this list.
I, for one, certainly write with a consciousness of a book as
environment, with an ecology of materials in bodymind, and I
encourage that exploration from writers with whom I work as editor or
publisher. Of course not all of the encouraged take the opportunity.
Some of you will already be aware of the issues of ludic materiality
and the objecthood of inter-generic making / weaving the page onto
which to project writing that Kirsten and I have been engaging
through 'Retrospective Screen' and 'Reading(s)' as part of 'things
not worth keeping'. We'll be making a 24 hour 'live' collaborative
writing from these books in Norwich City Gallery from 10am Friday
29th April until 10am the following morning. Some of this will be
'neted' as and when during that time frame. I'll post a url nearer to
then.
love and love
cris
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