with Jun Maruyama

Sunday August 24, 10am-12pm Pacific via Zoom
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited time afterwards.)

Blood, lemon, honey. Taste and consumption. Our five senses: sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. 

If I were to eat licorice (an insidiously sweet piece of licorice), what histories, stories, memories, knowledge, live there? In the licorice? In the sweetness of the licorice? In the sweetness of the act of tasting licorice? In the sweetness itself? 

The untoldness. We may never, or won’t ever, know. And that’s what is so sweet. 

What about a wasp sting on lips? In the stinging, what memories, connections across time, reveal itself, come to the surface? What if the wasp sting was not only a wasp sting, but a heat-stricken pricking, curdled blood, an uncovered trauma, an opening for clarity and healing? 

These experiences of heightened sensation. The infinity or multiplicity of a single event. The singleness of a single event. 

What happens if we pay attention closely to a sense/sensation? What if we focused on that taste, on that feeling, on that sound, and extended, multiplied, prolonged, that sense? If we were to touch or hold an obsidian stone, what stories and histories exist in the stone, in that holding, and beyond that, what if we considered what it would taste like if we were to bite into it, the stone? And what further stories and histories reveal itself, emerge, rise? What stories exist or emerge between the holding and the tasting?

In this lab, we will explore senses and sensations. We will explore our five senses: sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. We will consider the interconnective and imaginative possibilities and potentials among/between our senses. The dimensions of our senses.

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Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$90 Supporter

$60 Companion

$30 Friend

Scholarships are also available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Jun Maruyama (they/them) is a queer, trans Japanese-American writer, interested in exploring hauntings, senses/sensations, the body, dis/assemblage, and gender. They enjoy listening to music, drinking coffee, and being around trees and old shops. Enamored by snakes and bees, liminal spaces, and the unknown. Constantly transforming. “Life and death were mine, and I was monstrous” by Clarice Lispector is a fav quote. They have a BA in Creative Writing (with minors in Anthropology, Japanese, and Literature) from Pacific University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University, where they taught writing and composition courses.