Week One

What is an art movement? How does critique relate to creativity? Is writing an art? What is a workshop?

Scene Nights, Dinners, and Manifesti

Futurism was a movement in Italy associated with the rise of Mussolini, and separately in Russia associated with the Revolution. The poet Marinetti published the Futurist manifesto in 1909.

Futurist Manifesto
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html

Required text from The Futurist Cookbook.

The Italian Futurist Sintisi and Banquets will be introduced in this first class, and then participants will discuss their contributions to a “new” Sintisi / Banquet “dinner theatre” for the following week.

See also, in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, "Futurism," pps. 445-448.