Apr
20
The Writing Society in Brooklyn: OuLiPo and more
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From an email newsletter:
www.proteusgowanus.com
543 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Entrance down the alley off Nevins Street
Wednesday, April 29th
6:30-8:30 pm
First Gathering of the Writhing Society
For Friends of Oulipo and All Others
To all those interested in the process of writing with constraints, that is, by following the arbitrary, sometimes mathematical, rules invented by the French group Oulipo and others:
You are invited to attend this first of our weekly meetings of
THE WRITHING SOCIETY
Every Wednesday evening at Proteus Gowanus, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, starting Wednesday, April 29th and extending till the crack of doom.
This is not a class, and no experience is needed. The constraints and procedures to be practiced will be decided, in some cases invented, by the group. Not all the compositions will be exclusively verbal; visual artists, musicians, dancers, mathematicians, and cooks are welcome. The Society’s meetings will not be led, but writers Tom La Farge and/or Wendy Walker will be on hand to offer ideas, examples, and anecdotes.
Tom is the author of Administrative Assemblages, first in a series of pamphlets entitled 13 Writhing Machines, to serve as a manual and discussion of constrained practices. Wendy has completed one full-length visual/verbal constrained book, Blue Fire, (an examination of the 1860 Constance Kent murder case) and is at work on another about the origins of English Gothic fiction in plantation slavery, Sexual Stealing.
Fee: $5 (for the gallery)