[Cwgrad-announcements] Impunities Experimental Writing Conference, Oct 20-21

[Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza]

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>Impunities
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>a two day experiment in writing and community
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>October 20th and 21st, 2006
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>REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater
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>631 West 2nd St, Los Angeles CA 90012
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>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.
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>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.  Impunities gathers disparate 
>cultural vagabonds who set into motion our collective fantasies of escape, 
>oblivion, arrival, and transformation.
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>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 <http://www.redcat.org/>www.redcat.org or contact: 
><mailto:impunities at gmail.com>impunities at gmail.com.
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>http://redcat.org/season/0607/cnv/impunities.php
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>                                                 Friday October 
> 20th
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>Introduction and 
>Welcome                                                               12.30
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>Situated Identities: Locations of 
>Difference                                    1.00 - 2.30
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>Against the ideology of a universal positionless subjectivity, (how) can 
>writers articulate specifically situated identities?
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>Speakers: Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias Viegener   MC: Ara 
>Shirinyan
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>Collectivity, Community, 
>Control                                                   3.00 - 4.30
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>Are there forms of collectivity, whether spontaneously self-organizing or 
>hierarchically formed, that offer alternatives to the dominant systems of 
>creation and social control?
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>Speakers:  Lewis MacAdams, Ishmael Reed, Emily Roysdon    MC: Brighde Mullins
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>Cocktail Reception at 
>REDCAT                                                     4.30 - 5.30
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>Evening reading 
>performance 
>8.30 - 11.00
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>Chris Abani, Sesshu Foster, Johnny Golding, Shelley Jackson, Joni Jones, 
>Bhanu Kapil, Edwin Torres, Anne Waldman, Christine 
>Wertheim.                  MC: Brighde Mullins
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>                                       Saturday October 21st
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>Imagined Identities: Technologies of the 
>Self                                 10.30-12.00
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>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'?
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>Speakers: Shelley Jackson, Bhanu Kapil, Edwin Torres     MC: Bruna Mori
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>Allegories of 
>Transformation 
>12.00-1.30
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>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?
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>Speakers:  Chris Abani, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman     MC: Stan Apps
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>Lunch - in Disney Hall Café [not 
>hosted]                                          1.30 - 2.45
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>Counter-memory 
>2.45 - 4.15
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>How do writers activate memories against the stream? Can writing help 
>resist or liberate the peripheral consciousness of subjugated knowledges?
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>Speakers: Sesshu Foster, Joni Jones, Anne Waldman    MC: Joseph Mosconi
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>Summary 
>Panel 
>4.15 - 5.45
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>Imaginary communities, actual issues ~ Fictional characters, real writers.
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>Speakers: Christine Wertheim, Johnny Golding
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>Evening reading 
>performance                                                          8.30- 
>11.00
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>Renee Gladman, K. Silem Mohammad, Matias Viegener, Lewis MacAdams, Ishmael 
>Reed, Emily Roysdon, Sarah Schulman, Mady Schutzman   MC: Doug Kearney

Mike Atienza
Student Services
Departments of Dance, Music & Theatre
ARTS 130
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-3343
(951) 827-4651 FAX

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