Instructor: Zamora | Th 12:30-3:20 PM
ENGL 7087: Innovative Forms
How does one innovate from within—within being a relational ideation not to be confused with limited state—when considering the current pulses of writing? Within what? The page? Beyond the page? Story? Imagination? Form? Language/s? Syntax? Grammar? Breath? Other modalities of art? This workshop looks at innovation as a type of literary typography, but more importantly innovation as amalgamate threads to bend thinking, twist genre, reimagine rhetorical structures, and hover between the seams of possibility in writing. We will dissect and create to reinvent boundaries of the artist’s own illuminations around innovation in contemporary writing. We will contemplate the ways we plunge our work into more risky and complex fabrications at the intersections of language and art. Artists’ work in the course includes intensive reading/discussion of texts/authors who challenge and redefine the current writing landscape, workshop of reading-inspired art from the semester, an evolving antimanifesto on innovation, and an invention of a form including the theoretical framework of the invented form, a sequence or set of writing that demonstrates the form, and leading other artists in exploration of the form.