Reading and counting using our fingers in order to find the haiku form

Haikus and the process of finding them

Insolent in that it interrupts the text, and smitten in that it keeps returning to it

Joining Rachel Smith, from 1-3pm, the Roland Barthes reading group will read their found haikus produced using text appropriated from Barthes’s ‘The Desire for Haiku’, a chapter in Barthes’s The Preparation of the Novel, The collection, The Desire for Haiku, has been recently published by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE. (The current group includes the artists and doctoral students Emma Bolland, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Bernadette O’ Toole, Rachel Smith, and is convened by Sharon Kivland).

Following the readings those joining or interrupting are invited to read, and to find their own haikus through further appropriation.

Interruptions on Day Seven

Interruptions aplenty from a range of people and disciplines today.

Conversations about paradigms, the multiplicity of meaning, the need to push fixed ideas around towards matters of concern

Talking and writing haikus, exploring ideas around found language, reading in public spaces and performative acts

Engaged in constraint based processes

Conversations about the productive space of a foyer, the unexpected encounter, how to push our thinking into new spaces 

Historical ghosts, musical hall, performative acts and how our expectations can be challenged or disrupted

Following the constraint, but pushing the rules

 Haikus found in the books of Rachel Smith, typed by Brian Lewis from Longbarrow Press

Thanks to everyone who stopped by today for lot of interesting and productive interruptions

See you tomorrow

Residency Day 6 - visualising the thinking process

Video sketch of feeling out the thinking process or how we might visualise the process of drawing out thought in action