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Listening to Images
In this workshop, which takes it title from the title of scholar Tina M. Campt’s insightful text on ways of listening closely to photography, we will attune ourselves to the “lower frequencies” of a photographic image so that we can register “‘felt sound[s]’—sound that, like a hum, resonates in and as vibration.”
In this four-week collaborative space (my model for the workshop is a space of generating work and sharing it in communal generosity), we explore the ways in which poets have recently engaged with personal, historical, and archival photographs: Ross Gay, Deborah Paredez and Anthony Cody, to name a few, while simultaneously embarking on our own listening and entrance into/with images.
No prior knowledge in working with text and image is required.
Students are chosen by Diana Khoi Nguyen on the basis of a manuscript submission. Applications must be received by Monday, January 18 at 5 pm. View the submission guidelines.
Class meets Wednesdays: Feb 17, 24, Mar 3, 10.
Programs taking place online:An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.
Programs taking place in our NYC facilities:Please read our safety guidelines before visiting our building.
Programs taking place online and in our NYC facilities:Please select which experience you wish to participate in when registering. Online participants will be emailed an access link after purchase. In-person participants should read our safety guidelines before attending the program.
Poet and multimedia artist Diana Khoi Nguyen was born and raised in California. She is the author of Ghost Of, which was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Omnidawn Open Contest and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. It received the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and Colorado Book Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in magazines and journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, and PEN America.
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