I think it's interesting too, Joanna, and much more electrifying conversations as
a result. I forgot to say that the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown has similar
residencies, for a month to longer periods of time, for artists in different
disciplines, all year long, and it's not the only arts center here that emphasizes
this multidisciplinary approach. And it's true, I think, that the insights one gains
from such encounters can last a long time, and productively.
These various experiences with visual arts, and music, in the last year or so
reminded me, if that's the right word, that I learned more of writing, breath,
movement, etc. from non-textual sources--painting, and also viewing
paintings (art history etc), music, dance--and was glad to be returned to it--a
sort of bodily sense.
best,
Rebecca
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>Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:42:44 -0000
>From: Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>This is something I find very interesting.
>
>Some years ago I spent a month at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at
>Annaghmakerrig in Ireland, which as many of you may know was set up
>specifically so that artists of different disciplines could have the
>opportunity to interact. At the time I was there, there were two other
>poets, several novelists and/or translators, a stained glass artist, several
>painters and illustrators, a composer, and two dancers. One of these offered
>a short daily movement-and-dance class, which many of us found very freeing
>and helpful to our own work, whatever that was. The conversations around the
>huge dinner-table were always interesting, and could be electrifying.
>
>I'm still finding insights from that time turning up in my work.
>
>joanna
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:34 AM
>Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA
>
>
>> Thanks for this account, Stephen, of Richard Long's slide show and
>> lecture,
>> which sounds interesting, but thanks, too, for going into detail about
>> your
>> ringer of a question, his response, and the various thoughts that prompted
>> in
>> you.
>>
>>>In fariness, I guess we can also count multiples the number of writers who
>>>have no literacy around the visual! It's probably the sad irony of so many
>>>art programs in the way they exclude literature study from their
>>>requirements, and, reciprocally, the way creative writing programs remain
>>>blind to visual literature, let alone the history of music, avant garde
>>>innovation, etc. Whatever writers, artists or composers discover beyond
>>>the
>>>frames of their discipline, I suspect is left to do it on their own. I
>>>suspect, or imagine the multi-disciplinary character of computer
>>>technology
>>>is rapidly altering the situation (tho I personally do not know if the
>>>'pedagogy' is keeping up with these changes at all. )
>>
>> You may have a point about whatever 'writers, artists or composers
>> discover
>> beyond the frames of their discipline, I suspect is left to do it on their
>> own."
>> However, I don't know. One of the aspects that I like about teaching at
>> the Fine
>> Arts Center in Provincetown is the simultaneous residencies of poets,
>> fiction
>> writers, non-fiction writers, print makers, artists in various media,
>> photographers, etc. A reading by a poet will be paired or sometimes
>> tripled with
>> a slide show, lecture, by an artist in the visual arts. The night I read
>> last
>> summer, there was also a lecture and slide show/ video by Vicky Tomayko,
>> whose work lately is a sort of child's fantasy world inhabited by monsters
>> and
>> animated objects, which often transformed across whatever boundaries that
>> world created. I found the work of the artists incredibly interesting, for
>> instance
>> Marian Roth's talk about making her entire house into a pin hole camera
>> and the
>> resulting amazing images. Almost all the 'writer' events I've been to in
>> the last
>> year have included the visual arts and music. On the other hand, I'd guess
>> that
>> writing courses do mostly teach writing, but then that depends. At
>> Brandeis
>> where I'm teaching undergraduates, almost all of the students are double
>> majors, I think I've had four creative writing majors out of some 50
>> students,
>> and even then they are usually taking another major, in art, music,
>> pre-med,
>> etc. So there does seem to be a lot of crossing over artistic and
>> science
>> disciplines, in practice anyway; I can't really say about the "pedagogy'
>> not having
>> had any. . .
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
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