IN CINEMA
Mixed Poetics: New Documentary Forms & Poetry
Sunday, September 24th at 5PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price
Mixed Poetics is an invigorating and genre-bending group show that pushes the edges of documentary expression in digital, verbal, textual, and embodied forms. Join us for an evening of live performance, sculpture, film, music, and dance – together creating a vast, multidimensional, and expressive showcase of nonfiction poetry.
Organized by Miah Artola.
Featuring work by: Matthew Friedberger, Miriam Parker and Patricia Nicholson Parker, Liz Kresch, Sally Silvers and Bruce Andrews, Hitomi Honda, Patrick Todd and Amy Hosig, Miah Artola, Jana Astanov, and Nikolas van Egten, Jeremy Slater, Townsend West
Line-up:
Witness (E. Townsend West)
In this piece, the fleshy trumpet shaped “ears” will emit sounds - true stories which will help us bear witness to some of the struggles within late stage capitalism.
Rilke’s Last Poem (Amy Hosig & Patrick Todd)
A literary film—part living, part reading, part lecture-- that neither illustrates nor narrates, but keeps becoming a part of the language of a written text: at times uncomfortably banal, this work is meant to be durational.
Window Box (Inside/Outside) (Elizabeth Kresch; edited and designed by Miah Artola)
Storyline patched together through words and pictures seeking the truth and meaning in lives intertwined
Erogenous Universe Dreams Back (Jana Astanov)
Erogenous Universe Dreams Back is a collection of poetry that presents a world of sacred symbols subverting patriarchal and colonial norms and inviting uninhibited female subjectivity.
Lucky (Miah Artola)
A re-visioned excerpted piece from Sky, her NYFA-funded film on refugees. Poetry by Anne Waldman, live reading performance by Shayma Aziz.
Little Lieutenant (Sally Silvers & Henry Hills)
Little Lieutenant is a film made to the music of Kurt Weill as interpreted by composer John Zorn & with choreography by Sally Silvers, is a mini-epic, music video style, of the Weimar era between the World Wars.
[short intermission]
Poems by Jeremy D. Slater
Snow Pony (Sally Silvers & Bruce Andrews)
Snow Pony, performed live, with poetry by Bruce Andrews and movement by Sally Silvers, is a crazed multiplicity.
Shamanic Principle (Patricia Nicholson Parker & Miriam Parker)
In a World in dire need of Healing we respond with Love and the Spirit seeking to create Balance. We call on our feminine creative powers that are rooted in the traditions of Healing Arts to seek Visions to heal a suffering world.
A Woman + Nature+ Sound | Poems by Emily Dickinson (Hitomi Honda)
Hitomi will perform a keyboard improvisation inspired by selected poems by Emily Dickinson. There are three different poems that will be presented with unique keyboard accompaniment.
The drum machines of affliction (Matt Friedberger)
A melodrama about gloomy intervals, nonchalant dispensers of urgent care, and moving from an unmarked emergency room to a more specific funeral parlor.
Reception with light refreshments to follow!
Artist Bios:
Matthew Friedberger, a Chicagoan born 1972, is a songwriter and musician. His rock-n-roll band, The Fiery Furnaces, was busy from 2003 to 2010. He lives in New York City.
Hitomi Honda is a pianist and improvisor based in New York City, where she focuses on contemporary music and creating new sounds for the future.
E. Townsend West is a painter, sculptor, and singer from Philadelphia. She works in multiple modalities at her studio in Brooklyn.
Jeremy D. Slater is an intermedia artist and composer working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation.
Bruce Andrews is a poet, performance writer, poetics theorist, sound designer, who taught Political Science at Fordham in the Bronx for 37 years and has published 30+ books.
Sally Silvers is an award winning choreographer who also has published articles, essays, and poems in magazines, chapbooks, journals and anthologies. From 2005 to 2011 she danced in the new and historical works of Yvonne Rainer.
Amy Hosig is a poet who currently teaches at NYU. Immortal, a vinyl record of her poetry in collaboration with sound musician Patrick Todd, will be released this fall.
Patrick Todd Is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Along with film, Patrick works in several different media, including painting, sculpture, and sound.
Miah Artola creates interactive installations and multi-platform projects that combine her drawings and paintings with new media.
Jana Astanov is an interdisciplinary artist, a writer, and a poet. She is a founder of CREATRIX Magazine, a portal for creative expression focused on art, activism and spiritual practice. Her work includes performance art, installation, photography, and sound art.
Elizabeth Kresch is a Brooklyn-born artist who has exhibited her work widely.
Patricia Nicholson Parker, a dancer, poet and organizer of movement, music and causes has developed her work as a dancer, choreographer and poet within the aesthetic of freejazz (improvised creative music and art) with an attention to spiritual and social responsibility.
Miriam Parker has been influenced by her experience as a dancer, her study of Buddhism phenomenology, and her connection to the free jazz tradition. Parker uses Video, movement, installation, paint, and media to build modular kinetic environments that become extensions of the choreographed body.
Enrique Luna is a multimedia artist and engineer residing in Brooklyn. Currently experimenting with AI, his animation focuses on horror, surrealism and psychedelia and explores themes such as death, enlightenment, shamanism, femininity and symbols.
Val Jenty also known as Val-Inc, is a Haitian electronic music composer, drummer/turntablist, and professor at Berklee College of Music. Jeanty is a pioneer of the electronic music sub-genre called Afro-Electronica (also called “Vodou-Electro”) incorporating Haitian Vodou rhythms with digital instrumentations and synergistically combining acoustics with electronics, the archaic with the postmodern.
