TPRI ecopoetics workshop (NYC 2023) Application Form

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DEADLINE EXTENDED !!

NEW DEADLINE = 15 OCTOBER 2023, 11:59PM ET

This is the application form for ecopoetics workshop 2023: NYC, which will take place in New York City on 28 October 2023 from 9 AM to 5 PM.

ABOUT ECOPOETICS WORKSHOP

ecopoetics workshop was initiated in 2018 as a two-week residency with a focus on creative, critical, and collaborative approaches to the nexus of poetics and contemporary environmental issues. The first iteration was held in association with the Nature, Art, and Habitat Residency (NAHR) in the summer of 2019. After a hiatus due to COVID, the workshop restarted in its residential format in July 2023.

Rather than providing time to write nature poetry, ecopoetics workshop is intent on gathering poets, multimedia and movement artists, theorists, philosophers, and researchers committed to advancing the way humans conceive of and enact their relationship with nature. The organizing group conceives of ecopoetics as an expanded, open-ended research program and aesthetic practice. While some members consider themselves poets, they are also filmmakers, theorists, visual and movement artists, designers, and musicians investigating and producing novel modes of poetic engagement.

The workshop is open to many different approaches, but is most dedicated to engagement with complexity, aesthetic and practical innovation, and what can be achieved through empathetic collaboration.

ecopoetics workshop is affiliated with the Topological Poetics Research Institute (TPRI), a platform for experimental poetics. TPRI is a heterological research institution devoted to alternate forms of poetic engagement, an ongoing demonstration of our hopeful fidelity to the event of poetry.

SCHEDULE FOR ECOPOETICS WORKSHOP 2023: NYC

The intent of the NYC event is to create a miniature version of our summer residency program. It will involve structured writing sessions, collaborative research, talks from experts, and informed discussion. Participants will walk away with new ideas, the seeds of new creative work, new collaborators, and a new perspective on the nexus of art and the environment.

The workshop will take place over the course of one day (28 October 2023). We will meet at 9:00 AM at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where we will coordinate a speaker and creative exercise. Around 11:00 AM, we will take a subway ride to Central Park. We will spend the transit time working on a creative project. At 1:30 PM, after a break for lunch, we will engage with another speaker, and collaborate on another creative exercise and writing session. We will then make our way to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where we will have a public presentation of ecopoetics workshop and a speculative look toward our ecopoetical and topological futures in 2024. There, we will present work from our day session, hear about ecopoetics workshop 2023, and enjoy presentations from other poets and practitioners. All participants are invited to attend the Ecopoetics Workshop NYC Fall 2023 Reading & Book Launch, to take place at the Navy Yards that evening.

GUIDELINE FOR APPLICANTS

We ask all people interested in attending Ecopoetics Workshop 2023: NYC to complete this application form.

16 applicants will be invited to join the organizing group of Brooke Bastie, Courtlin Byrd, Brent Cox, and Simon Eales.

Preference will go to applicants whose statement of intent (submitted in the form below) is most closely engaged with the concerns of Ecopoetics Workshop and the Topological Poetics Research Institute. A shorthand gauge for measuring such a closeness is: creativity (is the intended work innovative?), criticality (is the intended work rigorous and relevant?), and collaborative (would the intended work both contribute to and benefit from being developed in a group context?).

For a sense of what we do, please visit our website (ecopo.art) and our summer residency trailer (https://youtu.be/SeqDfMfJcCE)..

COST

The cost for attending Ecopoetics Workshop 2023: NYC is $50.00.

This amount covers facilitation and speaker fees, administrative fees, and some catering.

We endeavor to make our events as accessible as possible, while acknowledging the economic demands placed upon us and those we seek to collaborate with. In line with this, we are offering one fully subsidized placed and two half-subsidized places in this workshop. Please indicate below if the cost of this workshop would prohibit you from attending and we will automatically consider you for one of these spots.

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What are your first name, last name, and preferred pronouns? *

Please provide a personal biography detailing relevant past artistic, academic, and professional experience. (200 words max).
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Please provide a “statement of intent,” in lieu of a “project proposal,” detailing what concepts, modes, materials, or discourses you are looking to engage with during this day-long workshop. You might discuss a project you would like to work on, keeping in mind the two places we will visit and the fact that we will be writing in transit. (500 words max).
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Please add any links to online portfolios or other relevant previous work published or exhibited.

Would the cost of this workshop prohibit you from attending?

Yes

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Thank you for taking the time to complete this application. If there are any problems, we will be in touch with you. Otherwise, we will aim to notify successful applicants by the 16th of October, 2023. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with us via email: ecopoeticsworkshop@gmail.com

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