Music

Click here to see all Ian’s videos on Vimeo. Click on titles to watch them on Vimeo.

The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself (2021, dur: 8:45) Poetry video, with Tasos Sagris (poetry / spoken word) and WhoDoes (music) …
•  official selection, and Delluc Avant-Garde Winner, Fotogenia Film Festival 2021, vol. 3 (Mexico City, November, 2021);
• official selection and overall winner, Poetry In Motion 2023 (Colorado, USA, November, 2023);
• official selection and Jury Award for Harmony Between Image, Poem and Music, 7° Festival Internacional Signes da Noite – Urbino (21st International Festival Signs of the Night – Italy) (Urbino, Italy, November, 2023);
• official selection and Winner SIGNS Award, 8. Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Signes de Nuit) / Berlin (Berlin, November, 2023);
•  finalist, International Video Poetry Award, screened at Bologna in Lettere 10th – BABEL: stati di alterazione, Bologna In Lettere 2022 (Italy, March / May – June 2022);
• curated selection, Au Fil de l’Art Festival 2026 (Jarnac, France, March – April, 2026);
• curated selection, “Fotogenia – A Showcase” at REELPoetry 2025 (Houston, TX, April, 2025);
• curated selection, International Poetry Festival – Kardamyli – Mani (Kardamyli, Greece, September, … Click here for more.

In March 2014, Ian was the inaugural Poet-in-Residence at the Adelaide City Library, supported by the Library and Spoken Word SA.

During his time there, he developed a sequence of poems, images and sounds based on material in the Library, called How To Read. Much of the written work used samples of text such as library brochures, titles of books in particular sections of the library, overheard snippets of conversation, and answers to a questionnaire.

Click here for the text of “How To Read”.

New versions Ian’s poems for the project have been published:  994.231 (General History / Australia / Adelaide) in Rabbit #16: Biography Part 2 (2015), True Crime in Australian Poetry Members’ Anthology 4 (2015) and The Guide in e•ratio 25 (2018).

Here is an excerpt from 994.231 (General History / Australia / Adelaide):

(Clara)
When a friend fell off her bicycle on the foreshore at Glenelg,
everyone thought it would be the end of her. “Watch out for sharks!”
we advised, just in case she listened. “They love the smell of blood!”
Seagulls swooped for pie crusts, chip-squash, gravel-grazed gumdrops,
casual sandwich orphans, ignored furtive intercepting flight paths,
veered north or … Click here for more.

Ambient Loopscape. Poetry / improvised music / real-time video generation with Jutta Pryor, Masonik (Baziz Psanoudakis and Mark Martin), and Eiichi Tosaki, The Loop Project Space & Bar (Melbourne CBD, July, 2019).

Ambient Brainstorm. Poetry / improvised music / real-time video generation with Jutta Pryor, Masonik (Baziz Psanoudakis and Mark Martin), and Eiichi Tosaki (Bundoora, July, 2019).

Paroxysm Press – The Showcase Series. Video poem and live performance. Adelaide Fringe Festival, Broadcast Bar, Adelaide, February, 2019.

Surf’s Up! ART meets SURF at Christies!  Poetry feature with musicians Nick West and Khristian Mizzi. Arty Records HQ, Christies Beach, SA, February, 2019.

Back at the Red Rhino Room. Poetry feature with musicians Fergus Maximus and Khristian Mizzi. Red Rhino Room, Hilton, SA, February, 2019.

The Poetry of Science. Panel and performance. Quantum Words. Writing NSW, Callan Park, Sydney, November, 2018.

Southern-Land Poets Chapbook Series 6 Launch. Poetry. Garron Publishing, Halifax Cafe, Adelaide, October, 2018.

Narratives of Brain and Body. Workshop and performance. Vital Signs: The Healing Power of Story, Queensland Poetry Festival, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley, Queensland, August, 2018.

The Hearth: “The Sea”. Poetry and panel. The Jade, Adelaide, June, 2018.… Click here for more.