February 2012
5 posts
Yelp Comments for Marcella Durand's "Philadelphia...
Since it was nice out last Sunday, my boyfriend and I decided to check out Bartram’s Garden. The neighborhood didn’t really creep me out, but my boyfriend (who is from West Philly) kept insisting that it was the hood. Once you’re in the garden, though, it’s hard to remember that you’re in Philadelphia.—Natalie B
I live about six minutes away so I try to stop by...
Bartram's Garden - Images and Links for Marcella...
Map of Bartram’s Garden
Feral cats at Bartram’s Garden, (photo by Isaiah Thompson in Philadelphia Citypaper)
View of Philadelphia from Bartram’s Garden (photo by Teresa Dahlman at www.midatlanticmuseums.org)
Alternate view of Philadelphia from Bartram’s Garden (photo by user dmarino622 on virtualtourist.com)
Wedding at Bartram’s Garden (photo by Jeremy...
Essai of Valeria Tsygankova
I learned from you to. As a valid form of academia.
Though the objects of her reading are often academic, her reading differs both from understood “critical” forms and from what Warner has described as critical reading’s casual alternatives. As they are implied by the critical/uncritical binary offered by academia, these uncritical practices of reading in “identification, self-forgetfulness,...
Essai of Lily Applebaum
Says/does outline, final draft of “The Rejection of Closure” (1985) by Lyn Hejinian*
Paragraph One
Says: Writers are conflicted between being coherent and being open and free
Does: Introduces the author’s proposition
Paragraph Two
Says: Writers are constrained by form and the need to use language
Does: Further introduces the author’s proposition
Paragraph Three
Says: These...
Essai of Max McKenna
The Darcy Satire Criticized
When Harriet, in Rex Bellamy’s memoir-novel The Darcy Satire (2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987) asks why Darcy, after an adolescence of parting his hair on the left, suddenly begins parting it on the right, Darcy tells her it is nothing more than an accident that stuck. “I picked up the comb in the other hand, and I liked the results,” he tells her. “A little...
September 2011
1 post
by Jeffrey Zuckerman
The question being, what do stories have to do with what they mean? and the answer peering through the windows as I walk home late at night: the shades and paintings and glowing televisions bearing the same relationship to their owners that words do to the ideas they express.
I dredge up each word and look at the dictionary for all its freight. Ideas and pictures are pretty things, but words are...
August 2011
3 posts
LOVE PRACTICE! by Maria Damon
Love Practice-based Criticism Day is Wednesday, October 19!!
From growing up to getting braces, popping pimples to catching some ZZZs, this section gives you the basics on changing practice-based criticism from head to toe.
Yes sir Yes sir Yes sir Yes sir
I got new shoes on the ride (yes sir) Rollin’ down 95 (yes sir) And you can see in my eyes (yes sir) That I’m lookin for a...
First paged opened to in notebook found on street...
July 2011
30 posts
Text collaged from correspondence between myself...
A further note by Sierra Nelson
A further note: unfortunately many letters we mean to reply to never get sent, some gifts never properly thanked. Perhaps some practice-based criticism may simply be more art making, but with an effort toward acknowledgement of the conversation that sparked it.
As with most of my letters, this one is already overdue and I feel I should end it now to get it in the post. Take care and write...
Dear a. by Maria Williams-Russell
Dear a.
Yesterday I yelled at the dog for chewing the leather sofa. He chewed a hole so big, the white matted stuff of the sofa made a moon pie of itself. We had to move that section of the sofa to the corner of the room so that when company came over they would not notice what our dog had done, and in turn not think what kind of people were we. The stuffing has already collected plenty of lint...
Dear Malcolm by Sierra Nelson
Dear Malcolm
A schoolboy exiting the side door is confronted by the upper leaves of trees separating themselves from the sky. In other words, are we not being taught how to be affected?
All the best,
S.
p.s. This rhododendron tried to teach me how the form of the wall affects the reader.
I admit the wall did not necessarily affect me.
However the moment of observation & the act of...
Dear Marcella by Sierra Nelson
Dear Marcella –
it is certain that I will never marry.
(things I never knew until now.)
Sincerely, S.
What Is Practice-Based Criticism? by Sierra Nelson
Practice-based criticism is a 3-step process:
(And the photo itself.)
Maybe one of the best descriptions I’ve heard so far is this:
“Yet, nearly everyone who listens to the pitch ends up being fucking beautifully open to the idea and participating. That is, people don’t seem to have any hang-ups about busting up bourgeois narrative structure to revel in chance or about subverting the...
Ars Poetica by Genji Amino
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WatchEjercicio Geométrico
by Bronwyn Haslam and Samuel Garrigó Meza
In Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, Amalfitano is haunted by a geometry book—Raphael Dieste’s Testamento geométrico—a book he does not recall having purchased nor packed, a book whose inexplicable presence marks the beginnings of Amalfitano’s madness. “Madness is contagious” (Bolaño 177). Amalfitano and Bolaño take a page out of Marcel...
“For Example” by Christopher Higgs
Becoming that overshadows being means dynamism that overshadows stagnation means melting that overshadows solidifying means Bergsonian time overshadowing the Gregorian calendar means the personal overshadowing the conventional.
Or, to put it otherly: movement. Tangent. Moment. Engagement. Disallowing the filter, perhaps? Disallowing the oppression of rules and value criteria and instead...
Things I Never Knew Until Now / About Vision.. /...
All content in the work has its origin in a found book: a yellowed, cloth-bound copy of Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh, left for trash outside the home of its previous owner.
Found inside the book was an old General Electric pamphlet recommending reading by “Better Light” so as to preserve “Better Sight.” This pamphlet, and the 20 facts it included...
ON PRACTICE-BASED CRITICISM or, ‘Girls delightful...
I’ve been thinking about the pedagogical role of essays or manifestoes that accompany poetry. Ones written by poets.
Some well-known ones from a century full of them: Projective Verse, Personism, pieces by Hejinian, The New Sentence.
They often present a constellation of formal attributes and political consequences, and specific objects of abhorrence. Ways of making language use more difficult...
Bring to Bear by Marcella Durand
Bring to bear a platter of assorted delicacies strewn from tailings and debris: these could be alluvial fan deposits or remnants of mountaintop removal. No berries, and no cheetos, either. To the problem, bring solutions—directives, admonishments, chastising, pleading. If necessary, make yourself 5x larger than yourself and shout—gather the noise bouncing about inside, merge the sound...
Bear Safety Lecture Interrupted by Bear by...
The interlocutor interrupts via hair and intent to translate visages, to reformat questionable sourcing as a sculpture recognizable in bits and parts, each scouring of hands against medium to discover real furry fear swinging out of forest toward garbage can collection and car trunks, placed tumbled versus elevation of tents and canisters. Figure is maybe parental at this point; or could be...
What is practice-based criticism? by Max Winter
I have been looking at a certain cup for many days The cup has revealed little of itself, in fact nothing The cup cannot be blamed, I have asked nothing of it If asked myself, then, I could say little about the cup It is white, it is large, yesterday it contained, today nothing It is not animate, it moves when I move it It is mine, no one owned it before me, and I will not relinquish it...
I will not ruin the environment by a.rawlings
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Along the Briny Beach by J.R. Carpenter
Along the Briny Beach: An Iterative Methodology
J. R. Carpenter
http://luckysoap.com
I am a PhD research candidate at University College Falmouth, in Cornwall, England. My research is practice-led. My title is Writing Coastlines. Well, my title is longer than that, but the part before the colon is generally the most interesting.
Writing Coastlines navigates the occasionally divergent...
WatchA Broom in a Room by Helen Hajnoczky
An Honest and Collapsible Investigation by Benny...
At first we thought that maybe it was something threatening, or interrogating—arrangements of small cubes in particularly demanding patterns. You get a close look, scan and tunnel it, perhaps, or just look at it, closely, to see what it is. But that was our first mistake: to see what it is. Capable of quantized rotation, we noted, in fine, dark marks over light, broad ones. What are you doing with...
