Sympathies of War

My first videopoem, Sympathies Of War, was essentially a poetry performance recorded by a video camera by Richard Elson at the Galerie Vehicule Art in Montreal. One objective was to prevent the performance from being identified as a “poetry reading” (as organizer of the Vehicule Art Gallery’s 1978 poetry reading series, I had been videotaping a great many readings) – I would avoid facing the camera, sitting behind a rear-projection screen, onto which was projected a series of slides I had made of the interior of a STOP sign. [Words by author, from http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/history/article_100.shtml ]