Reading
Fall 2024 Workshop Reading
In the past year, the feeling has been that language is saturated to its brim. Oftentimes the distance that separates us from our kin in our besieged lands becomes both paralyzing and suffocating, and this is a tension that we have been trying to grapple with. With an influx of words, images, and speeches circulating endlessly, how can there be a collapse in language at the same time it overflows? We search within our own ancestral inheritance of revolutionary literature and praxis for modes of navigation that help guide us through this paradox, and in this study, we will be exploring and expanding on other guiding mediums from the collective traditions present in the group. We will also trace how language can embody the notion of “passage,” in both its literary and literal sense. Through this premise, we think of the movement embedded in the duality of the conceptual and the material manifestations of the word. We hope that the space of this study will be generative, experimental, and reflective of our disjointed, haunted, insistent, faithful, angry, and grieving present.
