Dear All
'Remediating the Social' could someone tell me what this means?- (in nice
little words) so what actually is the subject???
'Elmcip ' appears to be about electronic literature (googled!
Cheers Patrick -out of touch prewar survivor struggling here!!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of cris cheek
Sent: 14 March 2012 19:18
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Subject: soliciting contributions : remediating the social (please circulate
further)
I have a hystory of making work out of materials sourced from multiple
contributors.
During the past three years I have been performing live texts using
projected text-image sequences as a springboard for interdisciplinary
improvised performance. In essence these are lo-fi pieces that combine
various approaches to textual enactment and reenactment through
interpretation, tonal semantics, commentary, extended vocalization, song . .
. somewhat exploring the borderlands between a lecture, a paper, a talk, a
poem and a graphic score. Those who have witnessed any of this work will
also know that i do not stand to one side of the projections but stand in
them, and that i incrementally incorporate documentation into each
successive version, to the extent that i do what the fabulous photographer
Jo Spence urged; i put myself in the picture. The writing gets all over my
body. The resultant highly embodied work gradually includes interventions by
others and the status of variant documentation of the work being made
becomes part of the emergent and ongoing text.
I am making a piece of work for the ELMCIP conference Remediating the Social
and i need your help to make it. My title is remediating the social and I
want the perspectives presented by the piece, as i explore what remediating
the social might mean, to be as radically inclusive as possible. Hence I am
seeking massively multiple contributions of material.
I will credit everybody who participates, in every instantiation of the work
produced (i hope in the end to include aspects of this piece in an
electronic book too). Something approximating this call for contributions
will accompany every version of the work, listing all those who contributed
to its making (unless people self-identify as wishing not to be listed).
Here's how you can help (please feel free to contribute one or the other or
both):
1. email me an image (a sourced photo or a photo you take, or a drawing you
make or an animated gif you assemble . .) that says something (for you)
about the concept and or your understanding of the meaning and
interpretation and/or experience of remediation
2. tweet me @friedpudding (if you have a twitter account and if you do not
have a twitter account then email me a short text (no more than 140
characters)) offering your thoughts on / critiques of / aspirations for . .
. the social
- IF you have more to say than can be constrained by 140 characters then
please send me a sequence of texts and i will deal with them in those units
N.B. I am circulating this invitation widely and it is expected that many
contributions will be critical . . do not be concerned about being critical,
jaded, cynical, silly, obstructive . . . DO use multiple languages and
languages other than English if you so wish . .
Deadline: March 31st. I hope to begin making the work during April and will
continue during the summer. I might circulate a second call, but i'm hoping
that I can get enough contributions to begin to work with asap.
I will subsequently work with whatever materials i receive to develop a live
presentation for the conference in Glasgow. I will be sharing this as work
in progress at the UCF ELMCIP seminar - Arnolfini Bristol, on Friday May 4
and show the work at the Edinburgh College of Art, October 31 - November 2,
2012.
THANK YOU so much, in advance
hugely looking forwards,
cris
*apologies for cross-posting=
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