{"id":3086,"date":"2024-04-21T06:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:57:56","slug":"walking-with-shimla-mixed-poetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/2024\/04\/21\/walking-with-shimla-mixed-poetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking with Shimla @ Mixed Poetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walking with Shimla - live performance April 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/947543830?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-baffa594 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/April212024-MIXEDPOETICSII.png\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/April212024-MIXEDPOETICSII-1024x1024.png \" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/April212024-MIXEDPOETICSII-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-3087\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recalling a walk in India when I was 18, this poem and projection performance about memory and compassion takes the audience on a journey to the Himalayas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x686.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-640x429.png 640w, https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1536x1029.png 1536w, https:\/\/seej.net\/create\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image.png 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MIXED POETICS II: NONFICTION TEXT &amp; TRANSMEDIA&nbsp;<br><\/strong>Tickets: $20 General Admission \/ $10 Reduced Price&nbsp;<br>Sunday, April 21st at 5PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please join us for the second installment of Mixed Poetics, an invigorating and genre-bending group show that pushes the edges of documentary expression in digital and embodied forms. Come by for an afternoon of live music, moving images, music, poetry, sculpture, dance, and virtual reality \u2013 together creating a vast, multidimensional, and expressive showcase of nonfiction text and transmedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring work\/performances by: Muyassar Kurdi, Jean Carla Rodea, John S. Hall, Duston Spear, Shayma Aziz, Rae C Wright, Tamara Yadao, Kevin Shea, Chris Jordan, Paul r. Harding, Takuma Kanaiwa, Marta Grasso, Kevin Ramsay, Alessandra Zeka, and Sam Baumel. Organized by Miah Artola.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A SONG FOR MANY WOMEN<em>&nbsp;<br>Muyassar Kurdi, 2018, 9 min.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Song for Many Women is a short 16mm experimental dance film exploring gravity, perception, and subtlety. A woman\u2019s dance in the aftermath of war and destruction. (a reflection of Audre Lorde\u2019s poem called \u201cA Song For Many Movements\u201d written for the South African freedom fighter Winnie Mandela)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CURRENT TIDES SOUND ESCAPES<em><br>Jean Carla Rodea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video\/sound work was filmed\/composed during a two-term residency with Works on Water in Governors Island. I registered different tides at the same location (Buttermilk Channel), bearing witness and weaving an ongoing asynchronous multilogue with land, ancestors, and legacies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE\u2019S OWN EYES<em><br>John S. Hall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent poetry (written within the last week or two) and older songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE VISITING ARTIST: A READING<em><br>Duston Spear<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taken from a longer work of fiction published in the Spring 2024 edition of Stone Canoe Review, about Cornelia Warren, a beaten-down performance artist, when she visits her friend\u2019s class of incarcerated women, and finally finds her audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BETWEEN LAND AND SKY<em><br>Shayma Aziz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Between Land and Sky is an experimental semi- biographical animation that moves between several visual mediums, including live video and stop-motion animation, to tell a story of dreams lost and estrangement while invoking ritual music and body dance gestures of the narrator\u2019s homeland in the south of Egypt.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>AS LONG AS&nbsp;<br>MEMORY SERVES<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>ME. . .&nbsp;<br>Rae C Wright&nbsp;<br><\/em>Musings on certain memorable moments, I\u2019ve a burning desire to speak of tonight!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>*** <\/em>INTERMISSION <em>***<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Light refreshments will be served!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BIRDS, BREATHS AND UTILITY&nbsp;<em><br><\/em><\/strong><em>Tamara Yadao and Kevin Shea<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a combination of ChatGPT, self-reflexive prompts and free verse, Birds, Breaths and Utility explores the nature of birds through musical \/ sonic improvisation with field recordings, synths, drums and the reading of poetic results from these experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1711550508313_779\"><strong>WALKING WITH SHIMLA&nbsp;<em><br>Chris Jordan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short story about a walk in the Himalayas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LAY ME DOWN<br><\/strong>A collaboration between a poet Paul r. Harding and guitarist Takuma Kanaiwa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KARKINOS: RESONANCE<em><br><\/em><\/strong><em>Marta Grasso and Kevin Ramsay<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derived from the ancient Greek word for cancer, Karkinos symbolizes the early understanding and perception of this formidable disease. The sculptures, meticulously crafted in terracotta, embody the physical manifestation of cancer cells. Their intricate details and organic forms aim to evoke a simultaneous sense of fascination and unease within viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sculptures are brought to life through the integration of exciters, which emit subtle and haunting sounds. These sounds, carefully designed and curated, represent the inner turmoil and hidden fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NUENO NUEVA YORK<em><br><\/em><\/strong><em>Alessandra Zeka and Sam B<\/em><strong><em>aumel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NUEVO NUEVA YORK (visions of the new asylum seekers) is a VR documentary that leverages the Apple Vision Pro&#8217;s advanced capabilities to offer a unique immersive view into the everyday life of Luis and Tomas, (father and son) who arrived recently to NY with the hope of a better life. This first-person documentary highlights the many facing challenges in a system lacking clear support and the realities of the day-to-day they must navigate to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling a walk in India when I was 18, this poem and projection performance about memory and compassion takes the audience on a journey to the Himalayas. 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