kinetic utopias

short class / writing workshop
23 & 24 october 2018; plus class presentation at the "schamrock" festival of women poets on 24 october
class held in english!

class analog kinetic utopias

/ anne waldman (usa)

kinetic utopias: a writing workshop with anne waldman

we will consider the theme of utopia together and write poems as antidotes to the technologies of control and dystopia. we will reference classic utopias, and utilize methods (“experiments of attention”) of collaboration, performance, documentary poetics, divination, and montage. please arrive at the workshop with a list of possibilities for what you would include in your utopia with special attention to endangered life forms and how you might “dream the end of war”.

anne waldman
poet, performer, teacher and cultural activist. co-founder (together with allen ginsberg) of the jack kerouac school of disembodied poetics in boulder, colorado/usa. most recently, author of “trickster feminism” (penguin 2018), as well as the recent “jaguar harmonics”, and “voice’s daughter of a heart yet to be born”. recipient of the pen america award for her 1000 epic: "the iovis trilogy: colors in the mechanism of concealment". she received the "before columbus foundation lifetime achievement award".
waldman performs and lectures around the world, most recently at the jaipur literature festival in india (2017), casa del lago festival in mexico city (2017) and poetas in madrid (2018). she has been performing recently in collaboration with meredith monk, and her own fast speaking music collective.
beginning in 1992, she led classes at the vienna poetry school (sfd). in 2012, anne waldman held the laudatio on the occasion of sfd’s 20th anniversary.

sfd in association with "schamrock" festival of women poets

5 teaching units

class fee: € 60,-

23 oct.: 5 to 7.30 p.m.
24 oct.: 1.30 to 4 p.m.
venue: vienna poetry school, mariahilfer str. 88a/III/7, 1070 vienna

24 oct., 7 p.m.: class presentation during the "schamrock" evening/festival of women poets (>> program online)
venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna
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registration form >> http://sfd.at/waldman2018 (german)