Experimental: A Symposium on Experimental Writing
University of Sydney, Monday 7 July –Tuesday 8 July
Convenor: Kate Lilley, English
Department of English, Woolley Bldg (A20), N395 Lecture Theatre
Monday 7 July
Registration 8.30-9
9-10.30 Session 1
Keynote 1: Barrett Watten (Wayne State)
The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field; or, What Is a Poet/Critic?
10.30-11 Morning Tea
11- 12. 30 Session 2: Experimental Walking
Lachy McKenzie (USyd)
Lisa Robertson’s “Utopia/”
Pam Brown (Sydney)
Duckwalking but no guitar: Kevin Davies
Martin Harrison (UTS)
Experimental Walking: On a Poem of Eduardo Moga
12.30—1.30 lunch
1.30-3 Session 3
Keynote 2: Lyn Hejinian (UCBerkeley)
3-3.30 Tea
3.30-5 Session 4
Ann Vickery (chair), Authorship, Lives, & the Trouble with Archives
Ella O’Keefe (Deakin)
Composition Traces and Othered Versions: Barbara Guest and Mary Abbott
Ann Vickery (Deakin)
Rethinking Archive as Testimony: Between the Person, Collaboration, and Poetic Community
Jessica Wilkinson (RMIT)
Poetic Biography and Archival Limits
5-6 Session 5
Keynote 3: John Wilkinson (Chicago)
6-7 Session 6
Grand Piano Reading: Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten
Tuesday 8 July
Registration 8.30 - 9
9-10.30 Session 7
Luke Harley (Sydney)
Early Californian constructivism: Ted Pearson’s Extant Glyphs
Andy Carruthers (USyd)
Five Scores: Carla Harryman, Theodor Adorno and Notational Poetics
Toby Fitch (USyd)
HAEMOPHONOPHILIA: Mallarmé, Chris Edwards, John Tranter
10.30-10.45 Tea
10.45-12.15 Session 8
Peter Minter (Chair) (USyd), Paragraph, parataxis, paratext: collaborative writing and ethics of transmission ‘after’ Language Poetry
Kate Fagan (UWS), Astrid Lorange (COFA), Eddie Hopely (Sydney)
12.15-1 Lunch
1-2.30 Session 9
Keynote 4: Carla Harryman (Eastern Michigan)
Intergenre and Intermedia Performance Works after 2000
2.30-4 Session 10 Word/Image
Ross Gibson (Canberra U)
See WORD, Read IMAGE
Chris Rudge (Sydney)
Diagrammatic
Anna Gibbs (UWS), Maria Angel (UWS)
The Futures of Writing: surface tensions, disappearing subjects & distributed agencies
4-4.30 Tea
4.30-6 Session 11
Meaninglessness in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Fiona Hile (Melbourne),
Lionel Fogarty’s Question
Sam Moginie (Sydney)
Embarrassment and Immanent Literary Historiography: Finola Moorhead's A Handwritten Modern Classic and seventies modernism
Claire Nashar (Sydney)
readership/thinkership : 'Cantone 5a. 'Core' by a.j. carruthers
Corey Wakeling (Melbourne)
Disfigurations of Narcissus, Ecstatic Subjectivity: Second-Decade Poems by Peter Minter and Gig Ryan
7pm Reading @ Sappho’s, 51 Glebe Pt Rd.
University of Sydney, Monday 7 July –Tuesday 8 July
Convenor: Kate Lilley, English
Department of English, Woolley Bldg (A20), N395 Lecture Theatre
Monday 7 July
Registration 8.30-9
9-10.30 Session 1
Keynote 1: Barrett Watten (Wayne State)
The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field; or, What Is a Poet/Critic?
10.30-11 Morning Tea
11- 12. 30 Session 2: Experimental Walking
Lachy McKenzie (USyd)
Lisa Robertson’s “Utopia/”
Pam Brown (Sydney)
Duckwalking but no guitar: Kevin Davies
Martin Harrison (UTS)
Experimental Walking: On a Poem of Eduardo Moga
12.30—1.30 lunch
1.30-3 Session 3
Keynote 2: Lyn Hejinian (UCBerkeley)
3-3.30 Tea
3.30-5 Session 4
Ann Vickery (chair), Authorship, Lives, & the Trouble with Archives
Ella O’Keefe (Deakin)
Composition Traces and Othered Versions: Barbara Guest and Mary Abbott
Ann Vickery (Deakin)
Rethinking Archive as Testimony: Between the Person, Collaboration, and Poetic Community
Jessica Wilkinson (RMIT)
Poetic Biography and Archival Limits
5-6 Session 5
Keynote 3: John Wilkinson (Chicago)
6-7 Session 6
Grand Piano Reading: Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten
Tuesday 8 July
Registration 8.30 - 9
9-10.30 Session 7
Luke Harley (Sydney)
Early Californian constructivism: Ted Pearson’s Extant Glyphs
Andy Carruthers (USyd)
Five Scores: Carla Harryman, Theodor Adorno and Notational Poetics
Toby Fitch (USyd)
HAEMOPHONOPHILIA: Mallarmé, Chris Edwards, John Tranter
10.30-10.45 Tea
10.45-12.15 Session 8
Peter Minter (Chair) (USyd), Paragraph, parataxis, paratext: collaborative writing and ethics of transmission ‘after’ Language Poetry
Kate Fagan (UWS), Astrid Lorange (COFA), Eddie Hopely (Sydney)
12.15-1 Lunch
1-2.30 Session 9
Keynote 4: Carla Harryman (Eastern Michigan)
Intergenre and Intermedia Performance Works after 2000
2.30-4 Session 10 Word/Image
Ross Gibson (Canberra U)
See WORD, Read IMAGE
Chris Rudge (Sydney)
Diagrammatic
Anna Gibbs (UWS), Maria Angel (UWS)
The Futures of Writing: surface tensions, disappearing subjects & distributed agencies
4-4.30 Tea
4.30-6 Session 11
Meaninglessness in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Fiona Hile (Melbourne),
Lionel Fogarty’s Question
Sam Moginie (Sydney)
Embarrassment and Immanent Literary Historiography: Finola Moorhead's A Handwritten Modern Classic and seventies modernism
Claire Nashar (Sydney)
readership/thinkership : 'Cantone 5a. 'Core' by a.j. carruthers
Corey Wakeling (Melbourne)
Disfigurations of Narcissus, Ecstatic Subjectivity: Second-Decade Poems by Peter Minter and Gig Ryan
7pm Reading @ Sappho’s, 51 Glebe Pt Rd.