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Impunities</i></b> <br>
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<div align="center"><b><i>a two day experiment in writing and
community<br>
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October 20th and 21st, 2006<br><br>
REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater<br><br>
631 West 2nd St, Los Angeles CA 90012<br><br>
<br><br>
With Chris Abani, Sesshu Foster, Renee Gladman, Johnny Golding, Shelley
Jackson, Joni Jones, Bhanu Kapil, Lewis MacAdams, K. Silem Mohammad,
Ishmael Reed, Emily Roysdon, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman, Edwin
Torres, and Anne Waldman. <br><br>
<br><br>
What role does writing and narrative play in the invention of alternative
communities, identities and politics? Can imaginary communities or
fictitious authors solve real problems? What are the methodologies
of the oppressed, the voices of the silenced and the technologies of
otherness? Such work might include collaborative projects,
self-organizing or anarchic groups, poetic terrorists, writer-pirates,
and textual gleaners, revolutionaries or exiles. <i>Impunities</i>
gathers disparate cultural vagabonds who set into motion our collective
fantasies of escape, oblivion, arrival, and transformation.
<br><br>
<br><br>
Organized by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener. Sponsored by
the Writing Program at CalArts and a grant from The Annenberg
Foundation. For more information see
<a href="http://www.redcat.org/">www.redcat.org</a> or contact:
<a href="mailto:impunities@gmail.com">impunities@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>
<br><br>
<a href="http://redcat.org/season/0607/cnv/impunities.php" eudora="autourl">http://redcat.org/season/0607/cnv/impunities.php</a><br><br>
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<b> <br>
</b><br>
<b>Friday October
20th
<br>
</b><br>
<b><i>Introduction and Welcome
</i></b>
<b>12.30<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
<b><i>Situated Identities: Locations of Difference
</i></b>
<b>1.00 - 2.30<br>
</b><br>
Against the ideology of a universal positionless subjectivity, (how) can
writers articulate specifically situated identities?<br><br>
<b>Speakers:<i> </i></b>Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias
Viegener MC: Ara Shirinyan <br><br>
<br><br>
<b><i>Collectivity, Community,
Control</i></b>
<b>3.00 - 4.30<br>
</b><br>
Are there forms of collectivity, whether spontaneously self-organizing or
hierarchically formed, that offer alternatives to the dominant systems of
creation and social control?<br><br>
<b>Speakers:</b> Lewis MacAdams, Ishmael Reed, Emily
Roysdon MC: Brighde Mullins<br><br>
<b><i> <br>
</i></b><br>
<b>Cocktail Reception at
REDCAT</b>
<b>4.30 - 5.30</b> <br><br>
<b> <br>
</b><br>
<b>Evening reading
performance</b>
<b>8.30 - 11.00<br>
</b><br>
Chris Abani, Sesshu Foster, Johnny Golding, Shelley Jackson, Joni Jones,
Bhanu Kapil, Edwin Torres, Anne Waldman, Christine
Wertheim.
MC: Brighde Mullins<br><br>
<br><br>
<b> Saturday October 21st<br>
</b><br>
<br><br>
<b><i>Imagined Identities: Technologies of the Self
</i></b>
<b>10.30-12.00<br>
</b><br>
How can alternative identities be imagined and articulated in language?
Do such literary technologies of the self help us negotiate with real
powers, or do they always remain in the realms of 'fiction'?<br><br>
<b>Speakers:</b> Shelley Jackson, Bhanu Kapil, Edwin
Torres MC: Bruna Mori<br><br>
<br><br>
<b><i>Allegories of
Transformation</i></b>
<b>12.00-1.30<br>
</b><br>
What are the conceptual toolboxes of writers who imagine alternative
narratives and alternative worlds, and which devices and allegories of
transformation work best to effect real change?<br><br>
<b>Speakers: </b> Chris Abani, Sarah Schulman, Mady
Schutzman MC: Stan Apps<br><br>
<br><br>
<b>Lunch - in Disney Hall Café [not
hosted]</b>
<b>1.30 - 2.45</b> <br><br>
<b><i> <br>
</i></b><br>
<b><i>Counter-memory
</i></b>
<b>2.45 - 4.15<br>
</b><br>
How do writers activate memories against the stream? Can writing help
resist or liberate the peripheral consciousness of subjugated
knowledges?<br><br>
<b>Speakers:<i> </i></b>Sesshu Foster, Joni Jones, Anne
Waldman MC: Joseph Mosconi <br><br>
<b><i> <br>
</i></b><br>
<b><i>Summary Panel
</i></b>
<b>4.15 - 5.45</b> <br><br>
Imaginary communities, actual issues ~ Fictional characters, real
writers.<br><br>
<b>Speakers:<i> </i></b>Christine Wertheim, Johnny
Golding<b><i>
<br>
</i></b><br>
<b> <br>
</b><br>
<b>Evening reading
performance</b>
<b>8.30- 11.00<br>
</b><br>
Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias Viegener, Lewis MacAdams,
Ishmael Reed, Emily Roysdon, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman <b>
</b>MC: Doug Kearney </blockquote>
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Mike Atienza<br>
Student Services<br>
Departments of Dance, Music & Theatre<br>
ARTS 130<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
900 University Avenue<br>
Riverside, CA 92521<br>
(951) 827-3343<br>
(951) 827-4651 FAX<br><br>
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