Individual Residencies
2023 | James Alexander McKenzie
During my residency, I focused predominantly on developing my cut-up poetry workshop and course. ‘Cut-up’ alludes to the cut-up technique that my lesson employs; it is an experimental lesson that follows a literary collage method that involves cutting up and splicing the work of celebrated poets’ and participants’ material and sometimes blending the two. I spent my time conducting research that relates to my course and refining its form.
I am interested in sharing variations of my lesson with different audiences including students on arts and humanities programmes, high school students, gallery visitors (employing it as an event to accompany my artistic work), and anyone that finds it useful or interesting for their practice (possibly as an evening class; both as isolated workshops and across an academic term). I considered different manifestations of the course, and its structure and stages if taught as a programme.