Book Report
When matt was describing Oulipo to the class a couple weeks ago, I found myself asking questions regarding the relevance of the topic. Finding odd and new ways to present text seemed a little arbitrary. I didn't see the point of creating new sonnets out of old ones, especially when the grammar was all over the place.
However, after recieving answers to those questions, more than anything, these different ways of portraying poetry, literature, etc, seems to me a jumping point for something more in context. If poetry is manipulated, switched around, jumbled about, and the outcome seems just as mixed, the new mixture provides for the artist/writer a new branch of understandings for the text. With that, the writer can compose his own piece in the formula of common literature, with the enhancements he has discovered in those experiments.
The idea of creating a Dadaist poem, transforming order into chaos, sensibility to vulgarity seems to me as well a great experiment of formulating my own text in a concept where there are no boundaries. And if i wanted to, i'd reestablish the text to fit the boundaries of literature and compose something original and 'poetic' at the same time.
When first coming to calArts, I was a huge fan of realistic/naturalistic acting. Creating a sense of the real world onstage. This was opposed by the manifesto of the school of theatre. The shows in CalArts, for a long time have been a pest of text. Words were abstract, heightened by avant garde performances.
It was difficult going away from a CalArts performance thinking "yeah I totally got it!" Most of the time after the show was spent trying to figure out what was meant when a character said this or that. As I got more accustomed to the way these shows were done (and participating in a number of them myself), I learned to appreciate the impressionistic representation of text. Real life sets the soil, a playwright plants the seed, and the productions take on the shape of a Jurassic periodic plant existing in 21st century Central Park.
Forwhat is textbuta tool createdbyman which canbemanipulatedbentcontrolledbroken down down down down
whatif wewereall to TALKLIKEBABIESfortherrrrrrrrestofourrrlives
text allows us to leave the norm and to escape to a world where we might enjoy ourselves or end up scratching our heads because some dude came up with something cool, and the other dude just doesn't get it. all in the eye of the beholder.
However, after recieving answers to those questions, more than anything, these different ways of portraying poetry, literature, etc, seems to me a jumping point for something more in context. If poetry is manipulated, switched around, jumbled about, and the outcome seems just as mixed, the new mixture provides for the artist/writer a new branch of understandings for the text. With that, the writer can compose his own piece in the formula of common literature, with the enhancements he has discovered in those experiments.
The idea of creating a Dadaist poem, transforming order into chaos, sensibility to vulgarity seems to me as well a great experiment of formulating my own text in a concept where there are no boundaries. And if i wanted to, i'd reestablish the text to fit the boundaries of literature and compose something original and 'poetic' at the same time.
When first coming to calArts, I was a huge fan of realistic/naturalistic acting. Creating a sense of the real world onstage. This was opposed by the manifesto of the school of theatre. The shows in CalArts, for a long time have been a pest of text. Words were abstract, heightened by avant garde performances.
It was difficult going away from a CalArts performance thinking "yeah I totally got it!" Most of the time after the show was spent trying to figure out what was meant when a character said this or that. As I got more accustomed to the way these shows were done (and participating in a number of them myself), I learned to appreciate the impressionistic representation of text. Real life sets the soil, a playwright plants the seed, and the productions take on the shape of a Jurassic periodic plant existing in 21st century Central Park.
Forwhat is textbuta tool createdbyman which canbemanipulatedbentcontrolledbroken down down down down
whatif wewereall to TALKLIKEBABIESfortherrrrrrrrestofourrrlives
text allows us to leave the norm and to escape to a world where we might enjoy ourselves or end up scratching our heads because some dude came up with something cool, and the other dude just doesn't get it. all in the eye of the beholder.
posted by matt at 10:21 AM
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