Report from San Francisco

With several successful events/meetings/talks/panels/readings behind us now (see Suzanne Stein's blog post on the performance for a recap of the latest), and with a working draft proposal to guide us, it's time to begin thinking about where to go from here, and the sort of curricula/projects we want to pursue.

A new website is in the works, which will no doubt facilitate more active engagement from more fellow-travelers, around everything from curriculum building and programming to future collaborations and visual elaboration, collective researches and inter-city correspondence, etc..

As curriculum development regarding "Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice" continues, we're hoping to extend this project beyond the writerly/textual and across disciplines to include a range of other practices. If you have ideas or suggestions regarding ways to pursue this, please send word, or post in the comments box.

Proceedings and reports from the recent “Panel on the Ethics of Translation” will be shortly forthcoming (the folder for this is currently posted under documents, and this will no doubt have content by week's end!) so we can begin building on this soon.

Also, following recent discussions around the work of Jalal Toufic and related concerns about the idea of the "nonsite" itself, several lines of inquiry are emerging, including a curriculum on "the archive," which we've been told is now in the planning stages.

But the horizon remains wide open--here in San Francisco and elsewhere-- for projects and events and other forms of collaborative work. We will be convening a meeting here to discuss all these things in the very near future, so stay tuned, and please consider attending.