Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Isabel Waidner
“New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary writing. Some writers confuse new materials with new ideas. There is nothing worse than seeing art that wallows in gaudy baubles. The electronic writing landscape is littered with such failures.” Kenneth Goldsmith, Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing.
Arguably the most radical contemporary literary strategies are based on the provocation that any new literary production only adds to the surplus of already existing written material. The potential for linguistic innovation is seen to be exhausted and science is seen to have replaced literature as the field generating the most imaginative narratives (Bok). This talk presents extracts from the novella Gaudy Bauble so as to open up what it could mean to reinvent experimental writing in this context and why this might be relevant. Gaudy Bauble is part of an interdisciplinary practice-led PhD ('Re-Inventing Experimental Writing; Queer Imaginaries, Hybrid Agencies, & the Interdisciplinary Co-Production of the Novella ‘Gaudy Bauble’') that builds on my long-term practice as an experimental novelist. The thesis develops a practice-led method which reinvents and situates experimental writing strategies within interdisciplinary analytics of experimentation from within Science and Technology Studies (STS) in order to produce non-normative imaginaries and materials.
http://www.8fold.org/frantisek_flounders.html
http://www.8fold.org/bubka.html
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sub/index.html
waidneri@roehampton.ac.uk
For more info about this event, please contact Tanguy Harma
tharm009@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Feb 2015 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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