‘Parsing the Aside‘ was conceived after receiving an invitation from Martina Copley: ‘In this parsing exercise, a writer-and-academic is invited to respond in writing to the visual work of a visual-artist-and-student-academic in exhibition. What follows is an account of the process as writing experience, replete with pause, reflection, improvisation; considered reflexivity, digression, resistance, repetition, proposition, and echoes…
Category: Academic Papers
Not/Knot Father: Alzheimer’s, Nonfiction and Writing the Father
ABSTRACT of this work is as follows: Alzheimer’s disease or AD is characterised by neurofibrillary knots, or tangles, and beta-amyloid plaques in the brain. Nerve cells waste away and wither and eventually decay and die. AD is a state of atrophy, degeneration, and negation. It is about not thinking right, about not being able to…
Essaying the fabpod
An improvised experimental collaborative account of the uncertain cultural life and futures of the fabpod, as of August 21, 2014. The associated ibook (i.e. Apple only) is available for download. How might the affordances of the essay as a writing practice be brought to bear within a workshop framework of collaborative improvisation, in response to…
Academia.edu
Here is the Academia.au link to a listing of Francesca’s papers.
How the how: the question of form
On the question of structure, form and rules Singer and Walker write: ‘Like the drag queen or the hermit crab, we borrow our shapes and shells to find a space our bodies fit’. By examining two scholarly works – ‘Scenes from a Radical Theatre’ and ‘Ethics, Writing, and Splinters in the Heart’ this paper seeks…
Doctoral thesis
Francesca’s doctoral thesis out of which Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex) was published in 2011 is online at the University of Wollongong in their research holdings: vol 1 Bite Your Tongue; vol 2 A Book of Pineapple. Publicly funded creative research is made publicly available. “Two years before she died, Susan Sontag spoke about the power of…
Nonfiction now: a (non)introduction
This essay seeks to explore the tensions in the paradoxical location of ‘non-fiction’ — or the de-hyphenated ‘nonfiction’, as we prefer — as a literary/artistic category, one that is built upon a negation. The opposition set up in the term by the operation of the ‘non’ upon the ‘fiction’ suggests a steadfast binary. However the friction between the…
Writing as curatus
Francesca’s paper ‘Writing as curatus: archival practices, encounter and response’ has been published as part of the conference proceedings for Encounters: Refereed Conference Papers of the 17th Annual AAWP Conference, Geelong, Victoria, November 2012. ABSTRACT: ‘This paper sets out some preliminary thoughts on how one might conceive of a body of practice in creative writing as both…
Father work: just gladwrap
Francesca’s paper presented at the Byron Bay ‘Ethical Imaginations‘ conference as part of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs conference in Byron Bay in November 2011 is online. This was a fully refereed conference. ‘Close up, the writing dissolves. Close up, this discontinous narrative of fragments and half-stories becomes distorted — don’t matter to matter hits…
Review: Just Glad Wrap
Review of Just Glad Wrap, an exhibition of writing and books by Francesca Rendle-Short, by Caroline van de Pol, TEXT, 15.2, October 2011 ‘In Just Glad Wrap, as part of The Five Obstructions art exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of the Arts, writer Francesca Rendle-Short opens her notebook and splashes it over…
Beastly and beautiful
‘In 1975, when I was fifteen and in grade 10, my mother told a reporter from the Courier-Mail that the books I was reading in high school would teach me, in her words, ‘to be a permissive rebel’. Her comments appeared in the paper the next day: ‘Mrs. Angel Rendle-Short, of Brookfield, said yesterday that…
‘Loose thinking’
Abstract: This paper explores the idea of writing an eisegesis as part of a creative doctorate. Not that its more commonly named cousin, the exegesis, is not such a bad way to describe, in general terms, what is being written when writing ‘the other bit’ of a creative writing higher degree dissertation, but it has…
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