A freeform channel for pop-up workshops, guided writing prompts, and occasional conversations from the Pelagic School, a resource for navigating the process of getting writing written.
Pelagic Radio: The Lost Conversation, an interview with Sara Farrington
An interview with Sara Farrington, author of The Lost Conversation: interviews with an enduring avant-garde, published by 53rd State Press.
https://53rdstatepress.org/Farrington-The-Lost-Conversation
Discussed: art making, survival, capitalism, generational transmissions, what spaces are there, fifth graders and Beckett
10 Mar 2022
Map Room 9: Monsters
The ninth installment of the Map Room builds monsters for story uses, out of forces moving at the edge region of a story.
Find the images described and more at the post of this installment here: https://pelagicschool.net/workshops/map-room/map-room-9-edges-uneasiness-monsters/
You will need a free library card to access it.
The book the map models come from is Terra Forma: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/terra-forma
18 Feb 2022
Map Room 8: Folds
Installment Eight of the Map Room takes up a series of wrong behaviors in the mapping: folds, joins, portals, passages, distortion, scale, and wormhole. Considerations of each of these variables leads to a mapping prompt, as a resource for story writing. More at https://pelagicschool.net
10 Feb 2022
Map Room 7: Speculative Generator
The seventh installment of The Map Room is a long guided mapping exercise that creates speculative overlays on the space you are in to imagine a world in deep time and abundant simultaneity. A few writing prompts follow.
Go to https://pelagicschool.net for more information.
Written & created by Karinne Keithley Syers / Pelagic School
25 Jan 2022
Map Room 6: A Narrative Atlas
Installment 6 of the Map Room considers the idea of the narrative atlas, working from ideas from Denis Wood's Everything Sings. Find an excerpt from Denis Wood's book at:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/Everything_Sings_Excerpt_and_Intro.pdf
Pelagic Radio is written and created by Karinne Keithley Syers. More information at pelagicschool.net
17 Jan 2022
Map Room 5: Mapping Story Shapes
The fifth installment of the Map Room looks at story shapes as guides to structuring stories, and leads to a series of prompts for deriving new story shapes from your drawings. To see the images referenced in this episode, go to https://pelagicschool.net/the-map-room/
Written & scored by Karinne Keithley Syers
13 Jan 2022
Map Room 4: Wayfaring
The fourth installment in the Map Room pop-up considers wayfaring as a form of life and way of telling stories. More at pelagicschool.net.
7 Jan 2022
Map Room 3 Borders
The Map Room 3 considers how maps of borders, edges, and zones of transition can be a resource for story, ending with a set of writing prompts for map making and writing. Links referenced in the episode:
https://garrettcarr.net/mappage.html
https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/12673
https://www.ofrendamagazine.com/articles/nepantla-lessons-for-transformation
More about Pelagic Radio at https://pelagicschool.net
5 Jan 2022
Map Room: 2 Visibility
The Map Room 2 explores the ways knowledge, interest, and selective visibility function in a map, working backwards from a symbol key to make a map in the service of storytelling. Find more at https://pelagicschool.net; find the middle school psychogeography map referenced at https://makingmaps.net/2009/06/22/making-psychogeography-maps/amp/
1 Jan 2022
Map Room 1: Mnemonics
The first installment of the Map Room considers maps as instruments of return and recuperation, as mnemonic devices laid on the page in symbolic space. Pelagicschool.net for image links.
30 Dec 2021
Pelagic Radio 1: Map Room Overview
Pelagic Radio's first microseason is dedicated to The Map Room, a pop-up workshop in ten installments. This episode introduces the workshop with an overview of its questions and aims. More information and transcript at pelagic school.net
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