Last spring, Matthew Abess, Cecilia Corrigan, Ned Eisenberg, Kim Eisler, Trisha Low, and Kaegan Sparks explored the topography of testimony to life in extremis (in particular, the Holocaust). This followed from the course on the problems of representing the Holocaust, taught every other year in the Writers House, where the issue is most discernible in discussions of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, the poems of Paul Celan, the study of survivors made by Terrence Des Pres, and the videotaped survivor testimonies housed at Yale University. That's the intellectual geneology or paths that converged, roughly speaking, and this group, led by Matt, journeyed along it quite a bit further. They made a presentation at the Writers House; now we have both audio and video recordings of the event available. The Holocaust course is being taught again in KWH's Arts Cafe. Anyone who wants to sit in on a session should call (215) 573-9749.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
the sun is not the sun
Last spring, Matthew Abess, Cecilia Corrigan, Ned Eisenberg, Kim Eisler, Trisha Low, and Kaegan Sparks explored the topography of testimony to life in extremis (in particular, the Holocaust). This followed from the course on the problems of representing the Holocaust, taught every other year in the Writers House, where the issue is most discernible in discussions of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah, the poems of Paul Celan, the study of survivors made by Terrence Des Pres, and the videotaped survivor testimonies housed at Yale University. That's the intellectual geneology or paths that converged, roughly speaking, and this group, led by Matt, journeyed along it quite a bit further. They made a presentation at the Writers House; now we have both audio and video recordings of the event available. The Holocaust course is being taught again in KWH's Arts Cafe. Anyone who wants to sit in on a session should call (215) 573-9749.
