have you ever meta haiku?
baerum kunsthall, oslo
19.10-12.11.23
have you ever meta haiku?
retramp gallery
25-27.3.22
vernissage time lapse of room one 25.3.22
‘have you ever meta haiku?’ is a gallery shaped book of book shaped interactive poetry sculptures. it is an immersive exhibition of concrete poems which the reader must perform themselves in order to experience them, and explore what book and page can be outside of conventional expectations of form.
‘have you ever meta haiku?’ is a deeply personal and unflinchingly honest journey through healing from trauma, addiction recovery, and accepting and embracing trans identity. moving through the darkness of rock bottoms and abuse whilst finding humour, light, and hope in self reflection, it is as funny as it is moving, and as entertaining as it is informative.
showcasing gorjeoux’s 'book shaped kinetic poetry sculptures' - conceptual concrete poems which the reader must haptically engage with and perform, and by doing so may explore what ‘book’ and ‘page’ can be and mean once one steps outside of conventional expectations of form. these are poems in which words dance across the page - they appear, disappear, or morphing into new ones as they move through and within the paper they are embedded in.
sometimes they light up upon opening, sometimes they are voice activated, and sometimes they speak for themselves - always they reveal more hidden depths, meanings, and metaphors, than just words on a page can.
'write me out loud' snippet from gallery performance 26.3.22
using the walls as pages, some poems require the reader to change their perspective to reveal glossy printed poems that are only visible with light coming from certain directions
'a change of perspective'
'violences'
