ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS

Collaborations inevitably lead creative practitioners to reflect on their own voice, aesthetic choices, and their subject position, expanding one’s sense of what is possible in one’s own projects, even when working alone. With that in mind, this workshop will place a particular emphasis on collaborating with those whose work differs significantly from one’s own in style, genre, and/or medium. Part of the workshop will address finding collaborators, and will offer strategies to expand one’s community beyond one’s chosen discipline. We will consider collaborations between writers and artists (for example, Yuliya Lanina’s poetry and music box project), examples of self-ekphrasis, where collaboration becomes a dialogue between parts of the self or parts of consciousness, as in Sandy Longhorn’s most recent work, Karen Green’s Bough Down, and Elizabeth J. Colen’s The Nature of Daylight. We will also look at text-based collaborations between writers whose style and genre differ significantly – for example, poet Daniela Olszewska and novelist Carol Guess, who have co-authored several innovative prose works. Lastly, we will also consider the ethics of collaboration, how to be a good collaborator, and different models and structures for collaboration.

Optional LIVE elements: Zoom office hours by appointment