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Broadcast: 7-8pm, Thursday 5th November.
The speakers were Ryan Ormonde, Chris Brauer and Holly Pester.
Ryan led the discussion:
I would like to start by considering all human expression as poetic. Systems and economies of production and distribution deny a free exchange of these plural and diverse means and modes of expression. An unfixed poetics constantly feeds itself. At once, different poetic and public channels merge and accumulate. This movement initiates further activity that delves back into accumulated content to create new (recycled!) poetic channels. An unfixed poetics does not direct itself towards traditional means of publication and anthologizing. Order and chaos of content are in a constant interplay that is restless and dynamic. If this kind of poetry finds itself in the pages of a book it does not stay there for very long. An unfixed poetics is one that takes full advantage of all new technologies that assist with the free exchange of creativity. Each new platform has its own idiosyncrasies and limitations. Poetic activity pushes up against these factors in its own production. A relatively recent platform that can be exploited for poetic activity is Twitter. Twitter encourages a fast exchange of thought across networks of people.
The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Speaker biographies:
Ryan Ormonde is a poet and perfomance artist based in London. He has completed a BA in English at Goldsmiths College and is studying MA Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway. His theoretical writing explores possibilities for poetic and performance practices. In July, 2009 he is organising an evening as part of the Earl’s Court Community Festival entitled Every Day a Battle. Taking its inspiration from Peter Barry’s book Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court, this event seeks to revisit the notion of Earls Court as cultural battleground.
Holly Pester (1982) is an experimental sound poet and writer. Her funded research at Birkbeck College in Transposition and Intermedia Poetry moves towards a poetics which is sited in between art disciplines; poetry and performance; sound poetry and new media sound art; composing and archiving. Her performances and texts are experiments in the sound and shape of speech. With the thematic concern of ‘speech matter’, Holly’s practice model will develop an original approach to archiving, siting it as a creative act using the concepts of New Media database practices. Her work is beginning to incorporate digital systems of ‘live-archiving’ and index-composition, while applying the same hypertextual space for physical documentation; at all times observing the replacement of the artefact with the act. Her work is published on OnEdit, in City Scapes, a new anthology of London poets (Penned in the Margins, June 2009). She performed at the Serpentine Poetry Marathon in October, an international event of art and poetry. She will be performing at Other Room and the Bury Text Festival in Manchester in 2010. www.hollypester.com
Chris Brauer is Director of Online Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University, London. He authors original 140-character-or-less short stories @Twae on Twitter with over 10K followers. To learn more or get in touch visit Chris Brauer, Cutlines and Smoothmedia.