Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Nightwriting Poetry Installation
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Poetry is not for your eyes only. By encouraging Festival-goers to bring all their senses to an exploration of poetic language, Nightwriting draws attention to an art that requires few materials to exist. It also looks at the potential for a sustainable arts event in which paper and light use are reduced. Three Australian poets and one visiting poet are each commissioned by The Red Room Company to write a poem for installation and live performance. Throughout the festival, their works will be on display in audio and tactile forms fitted into walk-in booths. At a nocturnal event, the poets will read their work from memory in the dark, and full text versions of the poems will be revealed by body-powered wall projections.

The annual Red Room Company Minislec, a public address on the code-like nature of poetic language will be delivered by one of the Festival’s international poet guests.

Presented by The Red Room Company.

Download the Nightwriting flyer: pdf Nightwriting 321.59 Kb

Exhibition  |  Poetry, New Media
When
Thursday, May 22 2008
10:00 - 17:00

Where
Pier 4/5

Cost
Free

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