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

Zine with compilation of poems was developed and exhibited at Open House, in collaboration with The House Community over July 2024.

Team: Jennifer McElwee, left, Ingrid Petterson, Michael Morgan, Marita Batna

Personal Poetics Zine, The House exhibition at Hue & Cry