Thursday, June 14 (8 p.m.)
Mess Hall
6932 N. Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60626
free and open to the public
You are invited to attend a Next Objectivists meeting
during which we will creatively explore James Joyce's Ulysses. We will
read and discuss pieces of writing that have used Joyce's works as inspiration
-- such as writings by John Cage. We will read and write through the "Eumaeus" episode of Ulysses.
This will be the first of a two-part workshop dedicated
to Joyce & a question that has been haunting us for a while, which we have
conceptualized as "radical banality." When, where & how does an
overcommitment to the banal, the humdrum, the petty & quaint, the everyday
slog & habitual mechanizations of routine pass over into its
opposite--extraordinary puncture? How do we & might we feel about projects
such as Joyce's, which novelize in epic fashion quotidian banalities?
Participants will be invited to workshop poems that use
passages from Ulysses as grist. Several strategies will be used
during writing activities, such as an Oulipo method. Some pieces
of writing generated during this Next Objectivists meeting will be made available
to the publicby Bloomsday.
During the second workshop (on June 21), the Next
Objectivists will continue to explore these questions by reading & writing
our way through sections of Finnegans Wake (a word file of selections
is attached). In both workshops, we will employ automatic writing, acrostics
& other surrealist & oulipian techniques as keys to help us unlock
these texts.
Join us! As always, the Next Objectivists' workshops are
free and open to the public. All meetings are held at the Mess Hall.
Finally, the Next Objectivists' summer schedule is now
available at www.nextobjectivists.blogspot.com.
This event is part of "Bloomsday 2012 & Ulysses' 90th."
