Pelagic Radio

Karinne Keithley Syers

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.

Episodes

  1. Pelagic Radio: The Lost Conversation, an interview with Sara Farrington

    12/01/2022

    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

    1h 13m
  2. Map Room 9: Monsters

    03/10/2022

    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

    16 min
  3. Map Room 8: Folds

    02/18/2022

    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

    17 min
  4. Map Room 7: Speculative Generator

    02/10/2022

    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

    34 min
  5. Map Room 6: A Narrative Atlas

    01/25/2022

    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

    21 min
  6. Map Room 5: Mapping Story Shapes

    01/17/2022

    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

    20 min
  7. Map Room 4: Wayfaring

    01/13/2022

    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.

    19 min
  8. Map Room 3 Borders

    01/07/2022

    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

    16 min
  9. Map Room: 2 Visibility

    01/05/2022

    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/

    20 min
  10. Map Room 1: Mnemonics

    01/01/2022

    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.

    22 min
  11. Pelagic Radio 1: Map Room Overview

    12/30/2021

    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

    9 min
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About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Karinne Keithley Syers
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Pelagic Radio