The Time a Poem Takes
An evening of film, poetry and sound exploring place, transfer and surface.
28 November 2015. 8pm
Entrance £3.
Films:
Helen Petts – Breath of Sense. 2015. 12 minutes HD, stereo sound. A collaboration with poet Albert Pellicer, a film/poem performed in English, Spanish and Silbo – the whistling language of La Gomera – exploring the landscape, sounds, rhythms and textures on this extraordinary island in counterpoint to the sounds of a poem that explores the nature of domestic intimacy and language on an evental site.
Serena Porrati and Albert Pellicer – The Poem’s Surface. 2015. 8 minutes. HD. stereo sound. Poet Albert Pellicer explores the reading of a poem within the roads and railings of the urban landscape, acknowledging the time a poem needs to ‘take place’ as he approaches the surface as an ‘evental’ site that the poem itself – in verbal and concrete form – inhabits.
Helen Petts – Knife Bin. 2012. 9 mins. HD. stereo sound. Percussionist Gino Robair explores the sounds and surfaces around a bridge over a canal in London – including the bin for surrendering knifes!
Poetry readings by: Noèlia Diaz Vicedo, Ghazal Mosadeq, Jèssica Pujol, William Rowe, Cristina Viti and Stephen Watts.
Music by Bex Burch, dagaare xylophone
Gregorio Fontaine, Chilean sound poet performs solo songs on the piano.
