Bruce Conforth Extra credit

Bruce Conforth changed the way I look at writing and culture. He made it very clear to me that culture would not exist in the way it does if not for writing. We understand culture to be a representation of ones gender and or race, we never actually take the time to realize that we as individuals have written the customs that make up our culture. Conforth made me understand that we create our own culture and and as individuals we have our own.

Throughout the lecture Bruce mentions the task that some people take in writing. He goes on to mention that when he writes it is not actually him that is writing, it is the writing that is writing him. Conforth says “The writing just kind of flows out of me.” This quote amazed me. He is telling us that he gets lost in his writing and that it overpowers him. The feeling he gets when he writes individualizes him and allows him to “create culture”. I relate very well with this idea. When I dance I become lost in my movement. The energy that has been created in my mind grows with emotion and explodes through my body. I let the feeling flow into movement not realizing that I too am creating culture. I don’t see my dancing as task, but as an opportunity to add and re-write culture with my body.  My movement gives me a chance to add culture to my life and the artistic world.