with Nicolás Gerardi
Thursdays June 6, 13, 20, & 27, 6-7:30pm
HYBRID: at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert, Main Hall) and on Zoom
pay-what-you-can: $5-$125
Regenerative Composition: expanded literature tactics is a theoretical and practical workshop in which we will review works and theories about electronic literatures and cyber poetry pieces and make our own experiments inspired by these readings.
Session I: Tensions between image and word
Session II: Assemblies and projections.
Session III: Technology, Colonialism and Afrofuturism.
Session IV: Ancestral discussions, current problems.
Registration deadline: June 5
open to ages 18+
co-presented with Porchlight Literary Center
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from the Community Foundation of Johnson County, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, and individual donors. $112 is the true cost of the workshop. We encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford. If you have a higher income or access to resources, pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST:
Nicolás Gerardi (Venezuela, 1989) is a multimedia writer and researcher. In 2012 he was part of the Experimental Curatorial Workshop with his exhibition Dynamics of Appropriation: Anthropophagy in the 2.0 era at the Centro de Arte Los Galpones (Caracas). In 2013 he organized together with Ionee Waterhouse the digital art encounter Señal Abierta at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. In 2016, he twice organized the multimedia event Live Cinema that integrated poetry reading, with the revitalization of film archive and electronic music in real time. In 2019, he presented his piece Límite y Frontera at the Andrés Duque Cinema, as part of the Bogotá Young Art Salon. From 2019 he has been dedicated to conceptualize, design and print and artist books under the publishing house Limo (s)Ediciones del Caribe. Through this house he self-published his first work in book format, the photo poetry book Uy,uy,uy,uy,ur,ur,ur,ur (2019). With his project Poemas Unicode he was selected to be part of the II Jornada Internacional de Poesía Visual, at the Universidad Federal Fluminense (2023). He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Iowa and is preparing an immersive exhibition about his own experience as a migrant and refugee.