Join us on Friday, May 5th from 10.30am-12 noon in Columbia Hall, room 249 for R.A.W./Karin Bolender’s “Outlaw Country (a process workshop for Pulping L’Amour)”.
The Pulping is an experimental material-poetic art-research technique that takes place at charged rural-urban fringes of Pacific Northwest forests, pastures, and watersheds and embedded within their various mysteries, industries, and ecologies. This workshop will creatively engage a number of related frictions and complicities (aka Pulp Problems) by means of experiments ongoing at and around the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.) in Philomath, Oregon. Taking up both acutely intimate and global scales and flows of specific (and generic) Western myths and materials, The Pulping plays with methods for dissolving old Pulp Western paperback fictions and narrative grids into unforeseen forms, via cycles of off-grid, more-than-human storying and durational inhabitation.
For this workshop, please bring along a favorite book—a book you love and feel you could not live without. Maybe one you wrote, or wish you did. A book you’d be buried with, or might even be burned for (like the 13th century French mystic Marguerite Porete, who refused to renounce her own Mirror of Simple Souls and was immolated as a heretic in Paris’s Place de la Greve). Don’t worry; the book you bring will not get pulped, burned or buried. L’Amour prevails.
