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A question of character (or the day I killed Jacques Derrida)

By Josephine On February 9, 2013 · Add Comment
Read this article by Patrick here. Originally published in Double Dialogues journal In/stead Issue One, ‘A question of character’ discusses the play ‘Breath’. Ann McCulloch and Paul Monaghan, in their introduction to the inaugural publication of In/stead, write: “Patrick Van Der Werf travels across important voices on tragedy in the last few centuries. Van Der [...]
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Something like an emergency – book publication

By Josephine On February 9, 2013 · Add Comment
The text of the sonic poem ‘Something like an emergency’ and accompanying article, by Josephine Scicluna and Tom Kazas, now appears in the 2012 publication by Cambridge Scholars Press called Food and the Appetites: The Hunger Artist and the Arts, edited by Ann McCulloch and Pavlina Radia. You can listen to the poem here
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Slow city of publication

By Josephine On February 9, 2013 · Add Comment
My fiction teacher in my undergrad years was Gerald Murnane and I recall him saying that if a story we are drafting has got ‘something’, we won’t forget it – it keeps dogging us to go back to it.This might be another way of expressing the ‘delusion’ that we deserve publication…in my years of writing [...]
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Tragedy in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

By Patrick On December 8, 2012 · Add Comment
I’ve been looking for tragedy or tragic elements in film.  Tragedy is supposed to be a theatrical form, but I don’t think it is anymore.  There seems to be little or nothing about that fits the bill, although I haven’t seen Edward Albee’s The Goat, or , Who is Sylvia?  I owe it a debt [...]
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Academic essay writing…some ideas for beginning

By Josephine On July 27, 2012 · Add Comment
I think one of the biggest hurdles when beginning study, particularly if you’ve been away from it for a while, is to understand the ‘standard’ required. In my case, I  recall the huge unease  I felt when undertaking doctoral studies: wondering if what I was doing was ‘academic’ enough especially in the light of creative/ [...]
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Dialogue between a scriptwriter & novelist

By Josephine On July 17, 2012 · Add Comment
See the ‘Thin House’ page (under Projects) for a dialogue between Patrick & Josephine about the adaptation of her fiction into his script        
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On Adaptation: Writing the Film of the Radio Play

By Patrick On June 3, 2012 · 1 Comment
The title here is a sort of provocation to self. There are a number of forms or degrees of adaptation when it comes to solving the problem of making an art object jump species.  There is the most obvious, but not necessarily easiest form where one simply picks up the whole damn thing and hopes [...]
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Wrighting vs Writing

By Patrick On May 10, 2012 · Add Comment
One of the cunning tricks employed by script teachers is to get students to spell the word ‘Playwright’. The aha moment is of course the realisation that we are not play ‘writers’, but belong to a more arcane tradition called ‘wrighting’. A wright is a maker of useful things: carts, wheels, ploughs.  If we take [...]
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The Land of the Lyrebird – Struggle and Mud

By Patrick On December 23, 2011 · Add Comment
In the main street of the town of Poowong, there is a statue commemorating the packhorse. Curiously, the statue – for some of us at least – tricks the unwary mind towards the assumption that this is the obligatory memorial for the fallen of the Great War. Perhaps this is because it is situated [...]
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The Land of the Lyrebird – amnesia

By Patrick On December 7, 2011 · Add Comment
The Lyrebird project takes its name and inspiration from what Paul Carter (in The Road to Botany Bay) describes as ‘one of the most remarkable compilations of settler records’ (1987: 151). The Land of the Lyrebird. This text is remarkable for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it [...]
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