Friday, November 2, 2012

Prompt 19: The Crowd-Sourced Review

This promises to be a noble experiment.

On Sunday, we will all be attending the dance department performance at the IU Auditorium (the event is unticketed and admission is free, so you should be able to just walk in).

By Monday at midnight, please post a 300 word 'review' of the production. I use scare quotes here because the formal requirements of a review are in flux in our digital age and I am happy to encourage that volatility. Write what you consider to be a substantive engagement with the production that ranges across these three categories: the true/factual, the meaningful, and the subjective (note: they are not necessarily discrete).

By Wednesday at noon, please cull from the full slate of reviews on the blog those claims that seem to you most true and meaningful. Cut and paste them into a separate blog post (you can call it Blog 19 Part 2 or something of that sort). You don't have to offer commentary here, but you should indicate which quotations seemed true to you and which seemed meaningful (or both).

Note: Worth thinking about as you write: Jennifer's critique of the reductiveness of Conquergood's usage of map/text. Can't texts/maps ever let us float free from the hegemony of text as (fixed/fixing) record or documentation? Isn't writing sometimes a zone or a conduit of multivocal open-endedness? Jennifer's fictional example would seem to say yes, notwithstanding writing's powerful inscriptive/prescriptive force. Try working out what this might look like in relation to Sunday's performance.

See you there.

NB: We will post a prompt for your election day ethnography on Monday.





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