Circling Towards a Disciplinary Chora
2014

Summer Workshop III

On May 9th, 2014 Arts Letters & Numbers acquired the House on the Hill above the Mill. Built in 1859, this house previously served as the original mill owner’s residence. Now it has become the residence for Arts Letters & Numbers ongoing onsite programs. This moment in the evolution of ALN demanded our present tense creativity. We decided to focus our third summer workshop (held July 19th – August 9th, 2014) on the very immediate questions we were all asking: what is space between the house and the mill?  How do we inhabit this new geography? We asked this through the direct action of locating the house within the mill and working to draw it out; to discover, and inhabit their double volume, centring discourse around the proposition that ‘education is the reenactment of that which may not have happened yet.’ This workshop was directed by David Gersten, and cotaught with Arts Letters & Numbers Fellows and Visiting Artists.