Wed 22 Oct 2008
Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing
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Friday October 24th to Saturday October 25th
At REDCAT, The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA 90012
http://redcat.org/season/0809/cnv/untitled.php
FRIDAY October 24th
12.30: Opening Addresses
1.00-3.00: Litterality 1.
Writing is not speech, it is letters on a page. What do we make of the inclusion in writing of non-alphabetic signs, symbols, diagrams; writing as map or score; invented writing notations; or the book as object?
Johanna Drucker, Salvador Plascencia, Latasha Diggs, Shanxing Wang
3.30–5.00: The Meaninglessness or -fulness of Language.
As a vehicle, is language empty, saturated with meaning, both, or something else?
Jessica Smith, Bob Grenier, Christine Wertheim
5.00-6.00: Drinks at REDCAT with participants and audience
8.30-10.30: Evening Readings/Performances
SATURDAY October 25thMorning
10.30-12.00: Appropriation and Citation.
Whose work and what material gets appropriated, cited and resurrected? Who owns texts? Is there a difference between appropriation and citation?
Steve McCaffery, Doug Kearney, Kenneth Goldsmith
12.30–2.00: Litterality 2.
Writing is not speech, it is letters on a page. What do we make of the inclusion in writing of non-alphabetic signs, symbols, diagrams; writing as map or score; invented writing
notations; or the book as object?
Brian Kim Stefans, Julie Patton, Vincent Dachy
3.30–5.00: The Concept of Conceptual Writing.
What is the relation between conceptual writing and the trajectory of conceptual art?
Stephanie Taylor, Heriberto Yepez, Young-Hae Chang+ Marc Voge
5.00-6.00: Summary Discussion with all panelists
8.30-10.30: Evening Readings/Performances