First Interstitial Salon
Sep. 10th, 2007 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushner...and first internet connection in days - we just got into Kyoto, where our posh Western-style hotel is vastly disappointing after the joys of all those ryokan and small, funky Japanese hotels - not to mention the Yokohama Pan Pacific, which will forever be enshrined in our hearts as the Greatest Hotel Ever (and such a bargain...!). However - 'twould be remiss of me not to let you know about the following from the IAF:
Welcome to the first Interstitial Arts Foundation Salon – an opportunity to create in-depth discussions about all things interstitial.
We're planning to offer a new reading at regular intervals, to which we invite all of you to offer comments, critiques, elucidations, insights, and additions. We envision this as a open-ended conversation about the topics and issues presented by the writers we're featuring, and hope that the conversation includes recommendations for further reading/viewing, personal reflections, debate about the cultural issues raised in the articles, and opportunities for us to get to know one another better and attract new participants to the conversation.
The IAF invites you to join in a series of conversations about what artists, academics and other interested parties are saying about concepts and practices related to interstitiality. On a regular basis we'll be putting up links to an article that offers particularly interesting insights, raises provocative questions, describes exciting new artists – a variety of approaches will be on tap. We'll then host an online discussion about it that could span everything from personal reflections, debate about the cultural issues raised in the articles,to recommendations for further reading/viewing, as well as opportunities for the IAF community to get to know one another better and attract new participants to the conversation.
So for 14 days after each article goes up, Kris McDermott will be here online with you to keep the conversation going, and offer new materials relevant to the topic.
We also hope that all our participants will provide links in their own websites and blogs for their readers to join the conversation, and even generate articles for the Salon as well. We're hoping to expand our community and have some good, juicy chat at the same time!
Our first article is "Coloring Between the Lines," by Gregory Frost, a longtime member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation
Working Group. This is the text of a talk Greg gave in 2004, when the IAF was beginning to come together and to define what we mean by Interstitial. Greg's suggestions about how to think about genre and category in the
arts are still uppermost in our minds, as we're entering into a new and more active phase of engagement with artists around the country. He's writing about the Literature of the Fantastic here, but his ideas can certainly be applied to other art forms or to cultural studies in general. Here are some questions to start us off:
1. Is Frost's "house" metaphor for the realm of Literature of the Fantastic a useful one?
2. Is all fiction at this point in time "metafictional," really, or is it possible to create narratives that offer completely self-contained ways of engaging with the reader's reality?
3. What do you think Frost means when he says "[Interstitial] is not so much a category as it is a modality"? Do you agree with him?
JOIN THE DISCUSSION HERE! The Salon is running now through Sept. 19th. Hope to see you there.
Welcome to the first Interstitial Arts Foundation Salon – an opportunity to create in-depth discussions about all things interstitial.
We're planning to offer a new reading at regular intervals, to which we invite all of you to offer comments, critiques, elucidations, insights, and additions. We envision this as a open-ended conversation about the topics and issues presented by the writers we're featuring, and hope that the conversation includes recommendations for further reading/viewing, personal reflections, debate about the cultural issues raised in the articles, and opportunities for us to get to know one another better and attract new participants to the conversation.
The IAF invites you to join in a series of conversations about what artists, academics and other interested parties are saying about concepts and practices related to interstitiality. On a regular basis we'll be putting up links to an article that offers particularly interesting insights, raises provocative questions, describes exciting new artists – a variety of approaches will be on tap. We'll then host an online discussion about it that could span everything from personal reflections, debate about the cultural issues raised in the articles,to recommendations for further reading/viewing, as well as opportunities for the IAF community to get to know one another better and attract new participants to the conversation.
So for 14 days after each article goes up, Kris McDermott will be here online with you to keep the conversation going, and offer new materials relevant to the topic.
We also hope that all our participants will provide links in their own websites and blogs for their readers to join the conversation, and even generate articles for the Salon as well. We're hoping to expand our community and have some good, juicy chat at the same time!
Our first article is "Coloring Between the Lines," by Gregory Frost, a longtime member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation
Working Group. This is the text of a talk Greg gave in 2004, when the IAF was beginning to come together and to define what we mean by Interstitial. Greg's suggestions about how to think about genre and category in the
arts are still uppermost in our minds, as we're entering into a new and more active phase of engagement with artists around the country. He's writing about the Literature of the Fantastic here, but his ideas can certainly be applied to other art forms or to cultural studies in general. Here are some questions to start us off:
1. Is Frost's "house" metaphor for the realm of Literature of the Fantastic a useful one?
2. Is all fiction at this point in time "metafictional," really, or is it possible to create narratives that offer completely self-contained ways of engaging with the reader's reality?
3. What do you think Frost means when he says "[Interstitial] is not so much a category as it is a modality"? Do you agree with him?
JOIN THE DISCUSSION HERE! The Salon is running now through Sept. 19th. Hope to see you there.