Interpretive Licensing Workshop with Sevgi

Interpretive Licenses workshop is a 1 hour workshop for creatives of all kinds(weavers, makers, painters, poets, coders, etc) who would like to think about the relationship of their work and the public.

I am interested in poetry as a means of enacting through new shared language a community that had not previously existed.*

Licensing law borders art and public and is predetermined if not stated in the work. Even though this border is a political, experimental, poetic scene in itself, it is usually left for common copyright or copyleft documents to be 'protected'. Without any experimentation with the law, we forget the extends of our work. There are many statements that can be made in relation to the work and this can create a new understanding of working together. To break down barriers or build new custom ones, we will come together in this workshop and think about our works, who do we think interacts with them and how can we engage.

I am interested in a you in me that corresponds to a you in you or rather I should say I am interested in we, our, with, correspondence, plurality, betweenness, I mean between you and me I am interested in the territories of truth a poem makes through language, through listening—*

Examples from a previous workshop:

Dissemination

or experimentation

is for the lovers

Under the spell of this license,

All work becomes occult knowledge,

All author becomes a witch in the shape of a bird,

All spectator a worm awaiting transformation.

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Under the spell of this license,

All work becomes occult knowledge,

All author becomes a witch in the shape of a bird,

All spectator a worm awaiting transformation.

**Poem is Legal Tender by Kyle Dacuyan.

Full poem can be found here: https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/legal-tender/