This is an undergraduate workshop designed for writers and artists with an interest in making and thinking about image-text work.
The wager of this class: the relationship between image and text is unstable, and this instability provides a site of intervention for any writer or image-maker.
For a full syllabus, please contact me.
The Treachery of Images
On captions and Wayne Koestenbaum’s Notes on Glaze
The archive lies / down in the drawer
Historicity in the novels of W.G. Sebald; Lucy Ives’ The Poetics
Photograph as evidence, evidence as narrative
Sophie Calle’s Suite Vénitienne
Working with the newspaper and television
Alexandra Bell’s Counternarratives, the collaboration of Alexander Kluge & Gerhard Richter, and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Writing with paintings, painting with writing
Carole Maso’s The Art Lover and the paintings of On Kawara and Peter Dreher
Might there be such a thing as a literary photograph?
On the work of Moyra Davey, with a screening of Davey’s Notes on Blue
Shooting from the hip
Bernadette Mayer’s Memory and works of documentary snapshot
Working with the phone
Sheila Heti’s Motherhood; practicum with the camera & notes app
Writing the internet
Catherine Taylor’s “Saetas” and Patricia Lockwood’s “The Communal Mind”
Ciné-roman
Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
Text as image; image as text
On the work of Susan Howe and Erica Baum