Personal Poetics
Drop-by activation & installation at MAY’D Arts Festival organized by Creative Geelong as a regional event of Melbourne Art Book Fair / NGV, 31 May 2024, Centrepoint Arcade, Geelong
The red arrows led to us - The Promoter, The Poet, The Printer, and The Publisher dressed in red and white attire... Participants entered the dreaming with us... We loved making poetry with you!
Interactive installation or ‘industrialization’ - gifting of personal poems. Each intuitive poem was made via a brief meeting of The Poet and The Muse, and typed on a receipt roll-paper. The poem was then painted by The Printer onto a sailcloth banner, and then suspended by The Publisher at the top of the staircase via a pulley-clothesline system operated live in the Atrium.
Team:
Ingrid Petterson - The Poet & conceptualizer
Jennifer McElwee - The Printer
Michael Morgan - The Publisher
Marita Batna - The Promoter
& Stephen McElwee - The Private Transport