[Brooklyn, NY]

Seminar at UDP: Sentences with Alexis Almeida
October 5, 2019, 12:00 pm
at UDP Studio

In this intimate workshop, through the work of writers, filmmakers and visual artists such as Aase Berg, Renee Gladman, Sade LaNay, Marosa Di Giorgio, Gordon Matta-Clark, Zahra Patterson, Jonas Mekas, Etel Adnan, Anna Moschovakis, and others, we’ll look at sentences that favor music, architecture, movement, “anarchic shifting of ground” over semantic climax and closure; we’ll look at how meaning is built from syntax and how syntax is pulled from structures in cities, and grammars, how shifts between the hypo and paratactic modes can create thresholds, or stretched relationships between subjects and objects, how an ambiguous conjunction can create spaciousness in the sentence, and how sentences can be transposed across mediums, constantly posing new ways of imagining time and space. All are welcome for some generative writing, reading, and workshopping specific sentences from manuscripts in progress.

Includes 2 free UDP books. Limited to 11 participants. Registration here.