Plenary Session - Community and Literature Outside the Book
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As a visual artist and writer, I am interested in the slippages, grey areas, and common ground that connects literary use of language with how language is used in the visual arts. I will look at the ways in which visual artists have taken up literary forms and conventions in work made primarily for a visual and media art audience (ie. Goldin+Senneby). I will also compare and contrast how the idea of the ‘book object’ operates from the ...
In the fall of 2020, I began co-authoring what would become a book-length poem, Disharmonies, with one of my mentors, Marilyn Lerch. The project evolved primarily out of emails that we sent back-and-forth over three months, and one socially distanced walk along the high dyke behind Sackville’s industrial park. My presentation will critically reflect on this predominantly digital process of collaboration and production across generation...
Moncton—or, as poet Marc Chamberlain calls it in his recent collection, Socialite (2024), “Moncton madone”—has long served as a muse, a formative urban socialscape, for Acadian writers, including Guy Arsenault, Gérald Leblanc, and France Daigle, among numerous others. But these writers go beyond the literal cartography of the city: they also, in the words of Daigle, make it a “ville du monde,” in that they bring to their literary unive...
The inaugural issue of Saint John-based It’s Burning Off was released in August 2024. This analog arts zine employs pre-digital cut-and-paste techniques and typewritten layouts to showcase a range of work by emerging New Brunswick writers and artists. Hundreds are then distributed at small businesses, libraries, parks, and public spaces free of charge. The zine’s resistance to mass-produced digital information sources, serendipi...
