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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When:  Monday 13 February 2023, 17.30-19.00 GMT, Online

Where: Online (via zoom)

Texts: 

-       Roland Barthes, “Rhetoric of the Image”, in Image, Music, Text, translated by Stephen Health (London: Fontana Press, 1977), 32-51.

-       Roland Barthes, “Soap-powders and Detergents”, in Mythologies, translated by Annette Lavers (London: Vintage, 2000), 36-38.

-       Catherine Taylor, “The Photographic Image”, in Image, Text, Music (London: SPBH Essays No. 3, 2022), 51-53.