THE POETRY (Matter)

2021

 

Online performance
overhead projector, saltpetre (sodium nitrate), water, prints on transparent mica, documentation,
HD video, stereo
09:24 min

This performance took place on 25 September 2021 and is the final instalment in the series of online conversations entitled Poethics of a Sovereign Ocean: Orality, Reciprocity and Geopolitical Trajectories, organised to coincide with the solo exhibition Am I Ancient Or A Human-Made Machine? at Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Acknowledgements:
Denise Ryner, Jutta Brendemühl, Katrina Goetjen, Kitt Peacock, Pablo Savaria & Cristian Correa

 

THE POETRY (Matter) was supported by the Goethe-Institut Toronto – Canada

 

– Performance: Michelle-Marie Letelier, Berlin, Germany
– Yoik: Ánde Somby for The Bone
– Curated by: Paz Guevara
– Produced by: Gallery Or, Vancouver, Canada
– Technical support: Scott Fitzpatrick, Collective Broadcast Co.

 

Exhibited at:
– 2022-2023, Transhemisferia (solo show), Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile

 

Screened at:
– 2021, Poethics of a Sovereign Ocean: Orality, Reciprocity and geopolitical Trajectories, online event