Performing Craft - reading aloud

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Gestures of Resistance, a creative/critical undertaking by Shannon Stratton and Judith Leemann, posits craft as methodology, extending its province to a range of performances that embody care through deliberate movements and canny gestures.

With particular interest in the relationship of slowness and agency, we delineate and then proceed to interrogate a species of action in which self-conscious crafting, contextual mischief-making, and cultural re-scripting play themselves out.

Gestures of Resistance works across the realms of writing, exhibition, and public dialogue.

Reading Aloud: in proximity of craft and performance

Throughout the five month Gestures of Resistance exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Craft we are posting weekly readings-aloud as a distributed component of our study center.

Taking a performative turn on the study of craft, performance, and all they attract. Addressing the current state of the unfolding exhibition, the artist in residence that week, and our own evolving questions. None of the writing from which we read is our own, nor will we tell you whose it is.

Unbordered citation. Productive ambivalence. Each episode runs about twenty minutes.

The introductory sound of each podcast is Tracey Cockrell writing the following text on one of her poemophones:

Modernity has drawn a line. A line around voices. A line under the past. It has circled, encompassed, enclosed voices, in order to separate them, in order to order them, in order to set them one against the other.

from Eloise Knowlton, Joyce, Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation

These weekly podcasts are a continuation of seed plot, a series of readings-aloud recorded for students in Judith Leemann's sculpture seminar at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the spring of 2009.

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Apr072010