I am delighted to invite you to join me in this virtual post-poetry action on December 30, 2021, at 7 pm ET (New York) via Zoom. This action is multilingual. Please continue reading to RSVP.
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Me complace invitarlos a participar conmigo en esta acción virtual de post-poesía el 30 de diciembre de 2021, a las 7 pm hora NY, vía Zoom. Esta acción es plurilingüe. Traduce esta página a cualquier idioma con Google Translate. Sigue leyendo para registrarte.
Open Call:
A.I.R. — A Virtual Post-Poetry Action
A.I.R. is an experimental performance on post-poetry made possible, in part, by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation.
This virtual event was initially designed as an exhibition called A.I.R. (AIRE), which, due to COVID restrictions and because it includes audience participation and close interaction, couldn’t be presented in situ. I have been working with different collaborators doing a series of alternative virtual projects tangentially related to the same A.I.R. project.
Below, I break down the details to participate.
How to participate:
The virtual action
To close 2021 with a new beginning, I am thinking of you as my accomplices to create this plural, and multidimensional space for dialogue, designed to hold within itself all our expressions as we will try to recreate the experience of a hybrid forest. My objective is to document the flashes of language that arise in these exchanges of free associations, noise, resonances, interferences, and other residual movements of the information interchanged between the machines and all the participants.
I put together this virtual happening in collaboration with my dear friends the artists and poets: Enrique Enriquez, Elisabetta Balasso, and Gala Garrido. This new series of experimental dialogues will take place live, via Zoom. To RSVP and receive the Zoom link afterward, please click on the button below:[/vc_column_text]
Where: Live, via Zoom
The format
The beauty of the format is that it is based on a dialectic exercise of free association. The starting point for this dialogue is the space of interaction, which can also be understood as the membrane that is language, as a morphic resonance field, or also as a feedback dynamic between the different manifestations of the material and the immaterial, the human, other species, and the machine.
As it is a live poetic construction, we are all encouraged to bring our symbols to the scene. The idea is that we explore together the resonance and the echoes between the Sensitive Machines and our own language, intersecting the spheres of words, nature, and technology; and within that framework, all the possible symbols and expressions that arise at the moment. Yes, we will be driven by the forces of chaos through the currents of divine providence!
The interaction could be bodily, by sound, dialectical, or non-verbal, among others. The documentation of this performance is what I will preserve as archive material. The video will be also available for everybody on my Vimeo Channel.
The structure
The event lasts 1:30 (one hour and a half maximum) and is structured as the following:
- Act I: We will contemplate a short documentary video showing different situations of a previous interaction between humans and the Sensitive Machines. | Duration: 7 min approx.
- Act II: We will start the poetic dialogue with the guest artists Enrique Enriquez, Elisabetta Balasso, and Gala Garrido.
- Act III: Community participation: The participants will have at least 30 minutes to interact in any form. Multiple channels will be available to do so. They will be explained at the beginning of the action.
The community
The event is multilingual. The introduction will be available in English. However, you are not restricted to participating in English, you can choose any language, for example, Spanish, French, German, etc.; or nonverbal languages, abstract sounds, or visual symbols, among others.
These are some of the communities invited to participate:
- The Queens Council on the Arts (NY)
- The Artists Association of Long Island City (NY)
- The ONG Latin American Community
* The number of participants is uncertain because the event is free entry, but the room only admits 100 people maximum.
The technical meeting
This event does not require prior rehearsals. However, you can write back to say hello or if you have any questions to:
mafelandia[at]gmail.com
I hope it is possible for you to join me and be my accomplice in this post-poetry experiment.
