MICRO FICTION: THE REAL STORY
22 octubre 2014
University of Jyväskylä
Micro fiction is much more complex a genre than it appears at first sight. In fact, sharp narrative tools are required —brevity being just one of them— in order to write successful pieces. In this workshop we shall see what exactly makes micro fiction work. We shall study the connections of the genre with other fields of creation, such as photography. And, most importantly, we shall put pen to paper and write our own micro-stories.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING
24 octubre 2014
Orivesi College of Arts
Commonly regarded, despite its ubiquity in our society, as an imprecise means for the transmission of information, photography has always maintained a complex relationship with the written word.
The purpose of this lecture/workshop is, on the one hand, to trace by means of a slide projection the history of that relationship, from the seminal captions used by the French photographer Paul Nadar in his 1886 photographic interview with the scientist Eugène Chevreul, to the felicitous collaboration of James Agee and Walker Evans in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1947) and the hybrid works of, among others, Wright Morris, Duane Michals, Robert Frank, Barbara Kruger, Oliviero Toscani, Wim Wenders, Tracey Moffatt, and W.G. Sebald.
The lecture/workshop also includes a practical section where participants will be asked to write fiction texts based on photographs and, conditions permitting, create their own photo-text combinations.
