By using blackout poetry – meaning the exclusion of words from an existing text rather than inclusion – as a creative methodology, participants will have the chance to consider the following questions: What are the implications and the complications of blacking out parts of a written text? Can this process allow a closer engagement with the text? And how can we rethink the image-text relationship by applying this methodology? 

In preparation, participants will receive scanned copies of some short texts, which will be used during the session as the basis for creating blackout poems. Participants will require access to PowerPoint. 

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Second meeting: On Sontag

When:  Monday 13 March 2023, 17.30-19.00 GMT 

Where: Online (via zoom)

Preparatory texts: 

-       Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (London: Penguin Books, 2004), 66-84.

-       Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (London: Verson, 2010), 63-100 (Chapter 2)

-       David Levi Strauss, Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (New York: Aperture, 2019), 84-85 (“On Susan Sontag”)

*The workshops are open to anyone based in the University of York or the University of Thessaly