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Corporeal Writing Workshop – Memory Space with Janice Lee: April 13-14
April 13, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$225Memory Space: On Inherited Trauma & the Failure of Language
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
When:
4/13/19: 1:00 – 4:00
4/14/19: 1:00 – 4:00
Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210
Cost: $225
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“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” – William James
How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected?
How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
We will explore the articulation of personal experience, identity, and trauma (both lived & inherited) and look at the relationship of personal history & identity with aesthetics & narrative. We will explore how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative via various aesthetic writing practices. We will also explore notions of personhood and interspecies communication through exercises in seeing, writing, breathing, and sensing.
Questions will include how history and accuracy intersect in individual creative work, how emotional and real violence intersect with aesthetic contradiction, how the limits and failures of language allow for reaching beyond traditional narrative structures, how lived experience intersects with individual identity, how memories of trauma are constructed and reconstructed, how trauma and memory might be disruptive to identity and narrative, and aesthetic relationships and ethical questions related to writing trauma and personal experience.
Bio:
Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, the apocalypse, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. After living for over 30 years in California, she recently moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University.
About Corporeal Center:
The Corporeal Center houses all of Corporeal Writing’s Face2Face workshops, readings, and open community hours Tues through Friday, 12 – 4. We are located in a beautiful historic building in downtown Portland. We are on bus lines, close to the Max line that goes to the airport as well as the Amtrak station. We are within walking distance to many hotels, some of our favorites being The Society Hotel ($), Embassy Suites ($$), Hotel Monaco ($$) and The Nines ($$$). With a bar, delicious burger joint, fresh salad bar in our building, a food truck lot out the front door, and Pine Street Market only a 3 block walk, food options abound.