Participants re/act in and to nearby scenes with two live video streams, split-screen, alongside a Twitter feed, projected to the audience in Riley Hall. Using the generalized score NEWS, developed by Ryan ⊥ Dunn and Heather McShane, this instance of the score will focus on extreme hierarchy and dissent. ⟨strike⟩NEWS⟨/strike⟩ is a LIVE broadcast performance engaging with the persistent conflict between authoritative and personal voices. *This panel is a hybrid of critical papers and creative reading* The presentations will blend creative work and critical writing as a means of endeavoring to both define and exemplify (or at least to point towards) a way to use cryptic and non-human knowledge to articulate the real through objects and poetic forms.

In the case of so-called occult poets, the magical aspiration to actually invoke the supernatural through poiesis demonstrates another way that writers have attempted to escape subjectivity. Or, perhaps we will find that non-human methods of poiesis and poetic inquiry into the real close themselves off from the human subject and can only be peered into from a distance. But, without reverting to a naive or Romantic understanding of the natural world, our presentations will invoke nature as a location which de-prioritizes the human subject or a location in which human and non-human can blur and conjoin. The term 'nature' is fraught with complexities, and no longer signifies a space apart from human activity and intervention.

Our papers will explore ways in which nature and the non-human provide powerful models by which we can come to new understandings of non-human creative processes and the formation of a non-human ontology. This panel will address ways in which occult, imaginative, and non-human methods of poiesis can de-center, interrogate, and re-compose what is traditionally thought of as the 'real,' in some of its complex permutations.

Camp Olvido by Lawrence Coates