1. What is your experience with assemblage/remix assignments, whether as student or instructor?
2. What's your reaction to the idea of writing as action or effect in context rather than performance? Does that match your view of writing? Or do you have a few entirely outside of that supposed binary?
Hi Noah,
ReplyDeleteI find my own experience with creative writing close to the assemblage/remix assignments. In my own experience, I have followed the form and style of many poets to shape my own poems, while citing or attributing direct lines. Not only is imitation encouraged in art, it can be seen as inspiration or influence. I feel this is a broader and more positive way to approach writing as it puts less stress on originality, and regards the act of writing as shaped by a community, whether literal or metaphoric. That is not to say that issues of ownership do not persist among writers and artists, but I feel that the experience definitely helped reevaluate myths about originality and the lone writer persistent in academia.