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.