{"id":690,"date":"2019-11-17T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/?p=690"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:37:51","slug":"performing-the-archive-daphne-marlatt-leaf-leaf-s-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/performing-the-archive-daphne-marlatt-leaf-leaf-s-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing the Archive: Daphne Marlatt, leaf leaf\/s, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-692\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-692 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-520x520.jpg 520w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/KS-and-MB-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karis Shearer and Megan Butchart stand next to posters for the Daphne Marlatt exhibition in the UBCO Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Karis Shearer (Director, AMP Lab)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months, the UBCO SpokenWeb team has been digitizing the 160+ analog tapes in our SoundBox Collection. Most of these reel-to-reel and cassette tapes were made between 1960 and the late 1980s in Vancouver and in many cases it&#8217;s unlikely they&#8217;ve been listened to in a few decades. They&#8217;re fascinating. As we digitize, I&#8217;ve asked the undergraduate student research assistants working on the SSHRC-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/spokenweb.ca\/\">SpokenWeb<\/a> project to identify recordings in the SoundBox they find especially compelling. We&#8217;ve then co-produced events that highlight those recordings and writers. What kinds of events, you ask? Let me explain:<\/p>\n<p>Through the AMP Lab and with collaborators like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiredwordcafe.com\/\">IWC<\/a>, we run a series of SpokenWeb &#8220;Performing the Archive&#8221; events that are primarily student-initiated and student-run. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Performing the Archive<\/strong><\/span> events all have three things in common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they&#8217;re public, often participatory, and emphatically community-building;<\/li>\n<li>they offer students meaningful leadership opportunities that are faculty-mentored and supported with funding; and<\/li>\n<li>they make literary audio artifacts from the past resonate in the present through remediation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The Epic Reading<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 As their name suggests, &#8220;Epic Readings&#8221; are&#8230; <em>epic<\/em>. Lasting 3-4 hours, an epic reading features the life work of a single writer and is curated &amp; facilitated by a student who brings research expertise on that writer&#8217;s work. Most importantly, epic readings are <em>participatory<\/em>: people are invited to drop in and out, to join the circle and voice poems. Each person takes a turn reading a poem before passing the book along to their neighbour. For those who want to join us, no prior knowledge about poetry or the writer is necessary &#8212; curiosity is the only requirement. We&#8217;ve found students, staff, faculty, and members of the public have been motivated to join us for all kinds of reasons: to practice performance; to practice reading aloud in English; to voice and hear poetry; to get to know a writer&#8217;s work in-depth; to eat snacks (yes, there are snacks) and meet new friends. Every one of these is an excellent reason! So far we&#8217;ve collectively voiced the life works of Sharon Thesen (2018) and Daphne Marlatt (2019).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The Curated Close Listening<\/strong><\/span>: In the case of the &#8220;Curated Close Listening,&#8221; a guest curator (often a student) selects a 5-minute piece of archival audio from our SoundBox Collection or from PennSound and introduces the clip (who is it? what&#8217;s the context? what might we listen for? how do we listen?) to the group. The group listens together and then, from a variety of perspectives, discusses what they&#8217;ve heard. Like the &#8220;Epic Reading,&#8221; no knowledge of the poet or poetry is required &#8212; many very insightful comments have come from those unfamiliar with poetry.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Performing the Archive<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;Performing the Archive&#8221; is a public reading event in which we invite a poet to read with their &#8220;past self,&#8221; or to put it another way, with their archival recorded voice.\u00a0 Here, the intertwining of past-voice (recorded) and present-voice (live) in performance invites us to consider changes in voice (timbre, accent, etc), reading style, and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these events are deeply <em>affective;<\/em> they touch a variety of senses, invoke memories, and create connections amongst people. In the upcoming blog posts, you&#8217;ll hear from <strong>Megan Butchart<\/strong> (BA Hons, English &amp; History) who invited UBC alumna, poet and novelist, <strong>Daphne Marlatt<\/strong> (Order of Canada) to participate in a series of events she hosted in September 2019. On the recording titled &#8220;leaf leaf\/s&#8221; (1969) Marlatt is 26 years old, not much older than Megan is now, and I am incredibly grateful to Daphne for agreeing to join us at UBCO for events that brought her into conversations with our community of students. You&#8217;ll also hear from <strong>Amy Thiessen<\/strong> (BA Hons English) whose beautiful reflection on her participation in the &#8220;Curated Close Listening&#8221; event brings its resonances into focus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-693 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-520x520.jpg 520w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/leaf-leafs-e1569824735585-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The signed colophon page of Daphne Marlatt&#8217;s <em>leaf leaf\/s<\/em> (1969) published by Black Sparrow Press in California. #9 of 125.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karis Shearer (Director, AMP Lab) &nbsp; Over the past few months, the UBCO SpokenWeb team has been digitizing the 160+ analog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}