The Topological Poetics Research Institute
ecopoetics workshop 2024
august 9-15
Manizales, Colombia
The organizing group of the Topological Poetics Research Institute (TPRI) call for applications to ecopoetics workshop 2024, which will take place in Manizales, Colombia from August 5-19 at Café Tío Conejo, a working coffee farm.
The workshop is open to all approaches and fields of study. We especially seek participants interested in innovative aesthetics, poetics, interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity, multimedia approaches, collaboration, ecological thought, and exploring new ways to think and enact the human/nature dialectic.
2024 THEME: Labor, Coffee, and Ecology
Our Summer 2024 workshop will take place on a working coffee farm in Manizales, Colombia: Café Tío Conejo.
We will concentrate on the theme of “labor,” especially as it relates to coffee and ecology. While coffee need not be the subject of your own work, it is nevertheless a dazzling lens on life today, from contemporary geopolitics to colonial history, from questions of labor, value, capital, and economics, to culture, cosmology, and society. Indeed, coffee is intimately tied to the development of democracy, colonialism and globalization, and fueled more than one revolutionary political movement, such as in France and Haiti. The workshop will have ample time for you to pursue work of your own choosing, in addition to offering activity, collective thinking, and collaboration around questions of labor, coffee, and ecology.
For more context on how we will approach the theme of labor, please consult the application and expanded call list on our website, in addition to the following slideshow overview on ecopoetics and the 2024 workshop:
ecopoetics workshop 2024 slideshow
Deadline: March 24, 2024
from ecopoetics workshop NYC 2023
october 28, 2023
central park, jamaica bay, and the dialectical landscape
ecopoetics workshop 2023: nyc
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october 28 2023
tpri is happy to announce a special one-day ecopoetics workshop event on October 28 in New York City
meant to function as ecopoetics workshop in miniature, this one day event will be split into two parts: 1) a day-long workshop held across new york city & 2) an evening program presenting ecopoetics workshop with previous participants and special guests, including information about ecopoetics workshop 2024.
1) the day-long workshop session will include reading seminars and creative exercises held as we travel across the city from jamaica bay to central park, topologically tracing what robert smithson called a “dialectical landscape” in reference to the evolving landscape of Manhattan from deep in geologic time to its provenance as forcefully stolen Lenape land transformed into pastureland, then a leisure park, and now into a kind of ambivalent interval surrounded by empty towering glass and steel monuments to late capitalism. we will read in situ, interact with experts, and collaboratively dérive our way across the city. participation for this day long event is $50.
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2) a free and open to the public evening program showcasing ongoing work from ecopoetics workshop 2023 val taleggio, italy, including readings from participants, special guests, and information about ecopoetics workshop 2024.
ecopoetics workshop 2023 project presentation trailer
DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ECOPOETICS WORKSHOP APPLICATIONS! NEW DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28!
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ANNOUNCING ECOPOETICS WORKSHOP 2023
TPRI is happy to announce a call for applications to Ecopoetics Workshop 2023!
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Ecopoetics Workshop is a two-week residency focusing on collaborative, critical, and creative approaches to the nexus of poetics and contemporary environmental issues.
Ecopoetics Workshop 2023 will take place 17-31 July 2023
Val Taleggio, Italy
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 FEBRUARY 2023
*NEW BLOG* N.H. Pritchard + the Transreal
Following the blogging Brent X. did accompanying his chapter and video on Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax Video Style, he will be blogging the developing of his thinking around the work of N.H. Pritchard, namely Pritchard’s concept of the transreal. This work is toward the production of a video for Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000) – The Anti Canon, an upcoming conference to take place at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium. Like his previous work on Brathwaite, this poetics research should be understood as an inextricable part of whatever “product” ends up available to the audience at the conference and beyond. In this way, a diffuse matrix radiating through time and space as his own work, your reading, along with the social/material technical online interface and its entire infrastructural identity comes to be part of the poem, however silent much of it remains.
N.H. PRITCHARD + THE TRANSREAL
ON VIDEO POETIC CRITICISM @ ELO 2022
On Video Poetic Criticism mounts a preliminary theorization of video poetic/critical practice. The video itself “takes the video” of Video Poetic Criticism, gathering together a number of video pieces into one contingent presentation. Several of the videos discussed are available at TPRI’s Youtube, and some will be soon (click for links): on Zukofsky’s “honesty,” “Sounding the Depths in Susan Howe’s Debths,” “Disorienting the Avant-Garde,” “Tomatl“, “Passages 13: Robert Duncan,” “Untimely Moten,” and (forthcoming): “Unthought Apparitions: On Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax-Video-Style.”
ROAR: RUSSIAN OPPOSITIONAL ARTS REVIEW / FIRST ISSUE
(excerpt) BURIED TEXT: ANNA AKSENOVA / ROAR / GALINA RYMBU
NEW BURIED TEXT: N.H. PRITCHARD, CRAIG DWORKIN (SPECIAL GUEST: AMANDA HURTADO)
NEW BURIED TEXT: LESLIE SCALAPINO – SEAMLESS ANTILANDSCAPE!
A Review of Jose-Luis Moctezuma’s Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018)
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