The Given: Registering the World by Word

Cost: $150
Instructor: Tony Burgess

Duration: 5 Weeks, MAY 2 – MAY 30 (Sundays 12:30pm-2:30pm)

Capacity: 12 students

This fiction course is composed largely of original exercises designed to encourage writers to access new ways of recording in the form of written words. These exercises are built out of German Art Historian Erwin Panofsky’s strategies for reading visual art, (specifically his three strata of meaning) reconfigured as practical exercises for generating text. The course will more generally explore building a relationship between visual art practices and writing (automatic writing as life drawing etc) The focus of this course is to produce new writing by developing text that can record.