BLUE METROPOLIS | Performing the Archive: A Remix

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Join authors of forthcoming CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event, Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod, as they take on the challenge of making a new poetry reading out of readings from the past. Join them as they unarchive recordings from the SpokenWeb Project, transforming voice into rhythm and movement into poetry. Performance to be followed by a Q&A session.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Exploring the production of culture through and outside of the archives that preserve and produce CanLit as an entity, CanLit Across Media asserts that CanLit arises from acts of archival, critical, and creative analysis. Each chapter investigates, challenges, and provokes this premise by examining methods of "unarchiving" Canadian and Indigenous literary texts and events from the 1950s to the present. Engaging with a remediated archive, or "unarchiving," allows the authors and editors to uncover how the materials that document past acts of literary production are transformed into new forms and experiences in the present. The chapters consider literature and literary events that occurred before live audiences or were broadcast, and that are now recorded in print publications and documents, drawings, photographs, flat disc records, magnetic tape, film, videotape, and digitized files.

Jason Camlot is professor in the Department of English at Concordia University.

Katherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University.