Sept 16-19th, Blink Gallery (that little stone building in the north side of Major Hill’s Park across from the National Art Gallery) will be having a group show this September entitled Barely Their. The artists are Jean Jewer and Lynda Cronin. I’m collaborating with them to make a poem-sculpture.
The idea is to be a female contemporary response to the heavy geometric male columns of Tony Smith with a lightness of forms and put words back to the sculpture.
On the show’s opening night, Thurs., Sept 16th, 7 p.m. at the base of the column, I will do a short reading and the artists will give an introduction to the exhibit. (The show will be a column on which there is a 3-D poem.)
Saturday, Sept 18th, 2-3 p.m., there’ll be a reading at the base of the art group’s obelisk which is concrete plexiglass poetry of a poem. Join in.
For Barely Their the theme of the poems would circulate around the notions of
-unreliability of memory,
-shifts in self-identification,
-stages of life.
It could be a response to the site of the gallery itself where canal intersects river.
By August 28th, we’d need to have names of people who wish to read for the invitations/posters. Invites to attend out should go out in a couple weeks.
Count me in – I’d be happy to write/read one. This sounds like a great idea.
Fabulous. That makes four immediate yesses.