Guest talk: From Lab Rat to Lab Art: Ecopoetics in the Laboratory
Welcome to an artist's talk by Adam Dickinson!
What happens when poetry and science meet in the laboratory? Arguing for an expanded notion of writing that involves scientific technology and procedures, this artist’s talk will feature the poetics and research involved with my ongoing work that seeks to make legible the often inscrutable biological and cultural writing intrinsic to the Anthropocene, especially as this is reflected in the inextricable link between the metabolic processes of human and nonhuman bodies and the global metabolism of energy and capital.
Adam Dickinson is the author of four books of poetry. His latest book, Anatomic (Coach House Books), which won the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize from the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, involves the results of chemical and microbial testing on his body.
His work has been nominated for major literary prizes in Canada including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, and Polish. He has been featured at international literary festivals in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States.
He was recently selected, along with Claudia Rankine (USA) and Valzhyna Mort (Belarus), to be a member of the jury for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Open seminar in hybrid format, in Dacke and in Zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64279715687
Seminariet arrangeras av Intermedial Ecocriticism: Transmediating the Anthropocene, ett projekt inom Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. Seminariet finansieras av Institutitionen för film och litteraturvetenskap.