Performance Writing
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Experimental and interactive account of Lads of Aran, a work that touches on performances of masculinity, performance writing, and the democratisation of forms and sources of knowledge. Focusing on the methodologies of bricolage and... more
Note: In preparing this report, I thought about the etymology of the word mobility and its usage in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to describe the emergence of a new social class, 'the great mobility' or 'mob', which emerged as a... more
In ‘Writing Coastlines: Either and both’ J. R. Carpenter articulates the double meaning implied by the term 'writing coastlines'. The act of writing translates aural, physical, mental and digital processes into marks, actions, utterances... more
Performance Writing The poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy discharge. –Charles Olson When you place a brick against a brick you are not rubbing hard matter up against hard... more
This paper explores the ways in which These Lungs (2015), a performance writing work, privileges self-constituted libidinal surfaces and points of contact over existing biologically determined ones in order to create new (and specifically... more
Utilising multiple narratives to move in and out of a critical reading of Among the Salt Flats, a performance score written by the author in 2014, this article explores the different modes by which a performance writing practice generates... more
The overlap between the visual and textual in practice research provides an opportunity to explore ways of presenting knowledge through performance writing. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a performance writing practice... more
This paper examines the work of plurilingual poet and performer, Caroline Bergvall. By looking at the way Bergvall manipulates language and meaning in her performance piece, Cropper (2006, 2008, and 2011) through both written and... more
O Diário "A Adormecida que Mordeu A Maçã Verde e Não Colocou o Dedo na Roca", foi gerado a partir de uma performance ocorrida no 16º Festival Videobrasil, em parceria à exposição "Tulse Luper Suitcases", do cineasta britânico Peter... more
…and by islands I mean paragraphs is a web-based work which is both composed and displayed in a modular format: http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands A sea of white space extends far beyond the horizon of the browser window, to the north,... more
The Broadside of a Yarn: A Situationist Strategy for Spinning Sea Stories Ashore, by J. R. Carpenter, reflects upon The Broadside of a Yarn, a multi-modal performative pervasive networked narrative attempt to chart fictional fragments of... more
This paper locates narrative resonance in transatlantic communications networks through a discussion of one web-based work, TRANS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE], a computer-generated narrative dialogue which propagates across, beyond, and through... more
Since the advent of the internet, advocates and critics alike have heralded the end of the book. George P. Landow observed that hypertextuality and poststructuralism emerged at the same moment, both due to dissatisfaction with the printed... more