Between Word And Image
Saturday, February 11, 12-4 p.m.
Instructors: Caroline Koebel And Kyle Schlesinger
$50, $40 members

All forms of writing are images, but not all images are forms of writing. Or are they?

This multimedia poetry workshop will explore the relationships between words and images. What effect has the evolution of new media had on the literary and visual arts of the last fifty years? What are the distinctions between the languages of visual and literary arts? What are the ramifications of blurring these boundaries? Painters, poets,
filmmakers, collage, book and installation artists have a longstanding history of collaboration. In the first half of this workshop we will examine various examples of
poems inspired by visual art forms and vice versa. In the second half participants will engage in a series of poetic experiments in response to the other forms of visual art
using a variety of media and materials. Writers and artists working in all mediums are welcome.

Caroline Koebel's work roams between film, video and installation art. She is also curator, writer and Professor of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo whose postconceptual
artworks often confront the problematics of female being-in-the-world, the expression of subjectivities at odds with commodity culture, and how individuals embody the
collective past.

Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, scholar, book artists and proprietor of Cuneiform Press. He received his Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo, and is the author of Moonlighting, Mantle (with Thom Donovan), A Book of
Closings and is currently writing on the history and ontology of book burning. Their collaboration, Schablone Berlin (Chax Press, 2005) examines the semiotic and performative aspects of stencil graffiti culled from the streets of Germany's most international metropolis.