Yaddo Artists Community

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Yaddo Artists Community

• Experimental Bio-text Manuscript
• K. A. Thayer

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Yaddo
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To Green Team

• Yaddo Artists Retreat founded 1900
• Work Time, Support Aesthetic Daring
• 2-3 weeks, May-Feb, 1/1/08 Deadline
• Manuscript Body, Rhetoric Poetry
• Appl., Plan, Bio, Resume, Samples, Letters
• Prior Application 04, File, 5yr. Timing
• RPI, MFA, BFA, published poet, art grant
• Team How to modify proposal strategy

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K. A. Thayer
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Bio K. A. Thayer

• RPI PhD Program in Comm. Rhetoric
• MFA Poetry, NEC
• BFA Experimental Film, RISD
• Published poet, 04 Yaddo waiting list
• Artists grant, RISCA
• Performance Artist, Collaborator, Juror

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Experimental Poetry

• Recordings of body-events biofeedback audio
  text of active body
• Speech recordings text/sign fragments
• Re-processing Speech processed through
  audio-data of performing body
• Composite Bio-text
• Aesthetic refinement Poems

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Body, Rhetoric Poetry

• the agon of rhetoric as a full-on, whole
  body encounter between rhetor and rhetor an
  art concerned with a deeply habituated, embodied,
  situated intelligence and sense of timing.
  Hawhee, Bodily Arts, 190
• Gesture-Speech Theory, Sophist Rhetors, Ancient
  Greek Poets, Modern Poets
• Action Poetry Reverse Biofeedback

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Experimental Bio-text Plan

• Phase I Body Speech Events, Reverse
  Biofeedback
• Phase II Format Compile Text
• Phase III Manuscript Creation

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Influences

• Shamanism ritual
• Rhetors metis, hexis, kairos
• Rimbaud senses
• Reverdy parataxis
• Stein syntax, moment
• Michaux inner body
• Burroughs cut-up
• Deleuze BwO

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Benefits

• Aesthetic Daring
• Rhetoric of the Body Insight Research
• New Approach to Poetry as Bio-Text
• RPI, NEC, RISD
• Publication

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Ventriloquist

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