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"Xenopoetics"

Thread starter Zeego
Start date Jul 14, 2016

Zeego

Mind Wanderer

Jul 14, 2016

I was looking through my bookmarks and I found this interesting blog post from a few years ago that talks about an artistic concept called "xenopoetics." Here's an excerpt:

This I guess calls for a new genre of narrative: Xenopoetics i.e. poetic unraveling of a work on the basis of an irrevocably alien (xeno) presence in the work. This alien presence can be just aâ€¦ room number that camera focuses on a bit longer than usual, a sound whose source is not in the scene, a gun that is hidden in a drawer but is never used (anti-Chekhov gun), etc. I am sure Jeff also agrees that these alien-to-plot elements harbor an exciting aspect of the weird but I think the key is the careful and thought-through deployment of them.