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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 ]
Dan Kvilhaug - 13.03.2013 - 17:06
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Mummypoem (Sympathies Of War - A Postscript)
Extending the investigation of the form, the work explores the act of writing, literally. The frame, as in Sympathies of War, is frozen, "mummyfied": it is the close-up the VTR, the lens focused on the moving needle of the audio level meter, as the video of Sympathies of War is playing. The sound is the sound from the video. A 3"x5" tear-off writing pad is underneath the meter. Lines are written on the pad, torn off, new lines are written; it is a performance in real time. Words are written, parts crossed out to form new words, new contexts.
The poetry here is the revelation of the live writing juxtaposed with the "mummyfied" version of the original poem, a video playing on a machine.
[Taken from http://www.amproductions.com/videos/artsandsci/videopoetry/videopoetry.htm ]
Dan Kvilhaug - 13.03.2013 - 17:17
