GCCF Grantee Event: Writing Composition Workshop w/ Rosemary Carroll

at Prattsville Art Center

A composition workshop concerned with examining and re-forming the formal approaches and aesthetics of the obscene, moving outside familiar frameworks of indie sleaze, dirty realism, camp, burlesque, cabaret, erotic transcendence, and empowerment rhetoric. The workshop approaches obscenity as compositional material: a set of languages, conventions, aesthetics, tropes, clichés, and techniques to be examined, dismantled, manipulated, and reconfigured. Participants can expect to read, write, discuss, and edit. We will leave with a few short pieces that participants have the option to publish in the INCENDIARY MATTER PAMPHLET, distributed by The Sphinx.