Re: Remixed Reject-text: Queerness, Appropriation and Digital Poetics
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Re: Remixed Reject-text: Queerness, Appropriation and Digital Poetics
Terms like “remix”, “modulation” and “distort” are commonplace in the lexicon of music production, but what happens when similar terms are overlaid on to the writing process? What does it mean to ‘remix’ existing text – to ‘bitcrush’ words sampled from another website, into something else? What happens when that jargon takes over? What does it mean to ’replace’ a word from the internet with one of your ‘own’? And how does that all tie to queerness? Signposted with examples by Edwin Morgan, Rosie Stockdon and Elijah Emerald, in this workshop we will explore both the playfulness and radicality in remaking text – to go beyond, to ;’queer’, the found poem – while also considering the limits of that approach. For, as Jamie Stewart says in Dancing About Architecture, “queerness is too complicated to be told what to do”. What does that mean when said ‘doing’ is writing as an attempt at reclamation?
Accessibility: The workshop will be taking place in the upstairs hall at Hillhead Library; unfortunately there is no lift access.
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Ian Macartney is a writer who can be found at ianmacartney.scot, but for how much longer? Publications include ! / Object (SPAM Press, 2022). His work has been featured in The Poetry Review,, The Scotsman, The Guardian and BBC Scotland. In 2017 he founded the Aberdeen-based arts collective Re-Analogue – in 2021 he founded the small press sincere corkscrew. His most recent screenplay was for Caledonian Dreams (dir Ewan McIntosh), a finalist for Best Scottish Film at the British Short Film Awards. He makes electronic music as adios nervosa, sound art as FORSYTH, digital visuals as Russell Teapot, videos as Our Non-Hero, helped run the netlabel Almost Ghosts, managed the 'gonzo internet criticism' blog Epikinetics, hosted the online interview series Spoke In Mirrors, edited the music magazine Dancing About Architecture. and does other things under the purview of Of Ghosts.
T. Person is an artist and writer living in Glasgow. Their work and writing has been shown in Gutter Magazine, Erotoplasty, SPAM, Embassy Gallery and at Hidden Door Festival. http://www.tperson.xyz/.
About SPAM Press (est. 2016):
It is time for poetry to enter the post-internet age, and SPAM Press wishes to take upon its shoulder the weight of this herculean enterprise. Operating as a pamphlet press, zine, online magazine, literary journal, DIY organiser and podcast, SPAM watches highbrow theory and pop culture make love in and against the oscillating stratospheres of late capitalism, while exploring literary weirdness, trash aesthetics and experimental critiques of our thoroughly mediated condition. Find us @spamzine or spamzine.co.uk.
This workshop is kindly funded by the Edwin Morgan Trust's The Second Life Award.
Please get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any accessibility requirements.
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