Trinh T. Minh-ha Reassemblage video

This is what we started watching in class, please watch the entire film and read the essay afterwards as we will discuss these two alongside Bahnu Kapil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc5G2-rTKis

Bhanu Kapil interviews

Here are a couple, I'd urge you to start with the first as the format of the interview itself speaks to the kinds of texts we have been working through.
http://gestureliteraryjournal.com/july-2013-page-16.html
http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/unfold-is-the-wrong-word-an-interview-with-bhanu-kapil/

Thinking Documentary

Dear All,

Before we jump into Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal, I wanted you to take a close look at this essay by Trinh T Minh-ha, not from the book I talked about (and also this is not the essay I had decided upon first, I changed my mind in the course of the weekend and decided to leave the reading of this and the first part of Humanimal to next week) but from a different collection. I believe this sets more of a base reading as to her critique of how documentary film making is regarded by different streams of film theorists as well as where she stands with that.

Here it is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQUHJwR2hZREZPbGs/edit?usp=sharing 

Bhanu Kapil's writing workshop suggestions

Dear all,

A number of you thought this was helpful and asked to see it again, here it is;

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQaVdZcWhWR0tRazA/edit?usp=sharing

Midterm

So here is how it works!

For your midterm I ask everyone to work on their personal dictionary pieces and to do this in two parts.


HOW TO?
1)If you have already sent in your dictionaries you will find my feedback on your work in your inbox by Sunday evening.If not please send me what you have tonight or tomorrow so I can respond a bit and send them back at you on Sunday. From then on I would like you to keep focusing on the words you've selected till next Thursday and bring copies of the latest version to class.I would like everyone to bring ten words to class, by this I mean ten word definitions, think back to jam ismail, each word has several entries, narratives, drawing, or inspired by Chantal Akerman perhaps your own voice in sound files.
2)Next Thursday EVERYONE has to attend class, I will be matching you up into pairs so that you can work on the second part of your assignment collaboratively. If for some reason you cannot make it to class you have to let me know so I can figure out pairs before hand. Once you bring your individual dictionaries in class, each of you will select five words from your partner's list and start writing entries for these words. Here you have to actually start collaborating, you can ask why your partner selected that word, or other questions that pop in your head, then you will split up and again work individually in writing/researching and creating definitions.
3)The third part involves putting the selected words into the form of a dictionary. Remember that in total you need to have ten words and these ten words need to have both the definitions that the original writer wrote for them as well as the response-definitions the collaborator/partner has written.


DEADLINES
As this is a twofold task you have two deadlines. The first is for next Thursday, November 21st, to finish working on your ten words individually and email them to me by Wednesday night, and bring hard copies to class.
The second deadline will be Thursday November 28th which is when you'll have finished collaborating and will send me a single file of your compositions.

Chantal Akerman Part 1&2

Hey everyone,


Here is the link to the audio finally, do let me know if you have problems accessing the link.
See you Thursday

part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQanFTMUVxLVFES1U/edit?usp=sharing


part 2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u8Of958MnQbUVnZk5jNVFqZ2s/edit?usp=sharing

Hi everyone,
Please try to make some time to read each other's space writing. Tomorrow will be a full workshop day, where we critique each other's work and do some in-class writing. Also bring the Museum of Innocence forms you wrote into please.

Tomorrow's class

Dear all,


I still have not heard from everyone regarding our possible Museum of Innocence visit tomorrow October 31st. Unless I do we wont be able to make it, as I'd want to hear a yay or a nay before i go ahead with the plan.

 Gokce Aysen, Michelle, Bonny, Antony, Erdi, Anna and Abdul are people I have not yet heard back from. If those of you who already responded have their phone numbers or can be somehow in touch please give them a call to see if they received the email and let me know

12 Questions- Bhanu Kapil

Who are you and whom do you love?

What do you remember about the earth

How will you begin?

Describe a morning you woke without fear?

Tell me what you know about dismemberment

Where did you come from/How did you arrive

Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother?

What is the shape of your body?

How will you live now?

What are the consequences of silence?

How will you/have you prepared for your death?

What would you say if you could?

Dear All,



 Here is the link for the pennsound reading/talk we tried to listen to on Thursday

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wah.php

its the second reading from North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival