Calendars:XPUB/XPUB Calendar/29-09-2025 -Event 1

XPUB1: SI #28 – Week 2 in the Aquarium WH.4.115✅

Monday 29 September

Roles

Those with assigned roles at Radio WORM Studio by 9:15 to meet Marco

• producer / interface: Daan
• host: Tommi
• host: Kiki
• host: Barbara
• observer: Ema
  

The rest of us will meet at school (aquarium) to listen to...

• 10:00 - 11:00: Radio Broadcast #02
  
• 11:30 - 13:00: Broadcast debrief / discussion
• 13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break
• 14:00 - 17:00: Afternoon session -
  

Image: Raymond Queneau’s A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (diagram, 1961)
"One must first admit that language may be treated as an object in itself, considered in its materiality, and thus freed from its subservience to its significatory obligation." – Marcel Benabou, Rule and Constraint
Reading and Writing Oulipo
In which we look at the literary experiments of the OuliPo Group (Ouvroir de las Litterature Potentieelle), including:
Harry Mathews – Liminal Poem to Martin Gardner (c1960s)
Michael Winkler – Where Signs Resemble Thoughts (c1960s)
Raymond Queneau – A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems (1961) Here is one attempt at an online version: https://www.bullfrog117.com/school/one-hundred-thousand-billion-poems.php
Raymond Queneau –A Story as You Like It (1967) (HTML approximation here: https://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/queneau_9.html)
Paul Fournel – The Theatre Tree: A Combinatory Play
Marcel Benabou – Rule of Constraint (c. 1984)
Georges Perec – The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise

Flowchart of Georges Perec's radio play 'The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise'

Constraints: what and why?
Pad for Radio show 2: https://pad.xpub.nl/p/secondRadio_show