Pelagic Radio Karinne Keithley Syers
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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.
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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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