I too want to really thank Elizabeth for such thorough and enthusiastic
reports from epoetry 2005. There's some very interesting things you relate
which I can pick up for my own work and transmit to others.
Based on visual arts essentially, the Norwich Fringe Festival at the big
Bally Shoe Factory is a real mish-mash but among the 150 contributing
artists/groups the Norwich School of Art's animation room is a highlight of
12 five minute pieces. Inprint (the group of four artists and four poets I
work with) has received much publicity for and interest in the Poetry
Vending Machine. It's not a new concept. However, the eight of us decided on
anonimity in our own assemblages of the boxes. That is, apart from our own
contributions, we do not know what is in the boxes. Because of the frantic
nature of our decision to launch our PVM, it has become most random - and
that has been exciting.
Also, because the old cig machine we're using has six drawers for B&H,
Number Six, Marlborough, etc, ours is titled by drawer too. So we have -
Love, Lucky Dip, Journey, Time, Place and DIY. Each box also has a 'warning'
sticker on it like cig packets - 'Warning - Poetry can give you Heart-Ease'
and the like.
My Black Box has been the only venture to use found objects and texts. I've
now performed 'Addressing The Ground' three times. Basically, it's a black
box the audience sits in, while I perform within and without for them. It is
presently like Dr. Caligari meets Punch & Judy -- I'm on a huge learning
curve with it (I'm very much at the beginning).
Relevant to your reports: I very much want to combine low-tech with the new
media/digital hi-tech in the future in the Black Box. After Oct 9th, when I
strike it, work begins on its advance.
Teaching hangs heavy to pay the rent but I'm trying to document the PVM and
the Black Box on my blog www.mallin.blogspot.com
Thanks so again, Rupert
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