Video

Sensurious video-poem short-listed for Red Room Co New Shoots Prize

Created by The Red Room Company, New Shoots, is a poetic partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Sydney Olympic Park and Bundanon Trust. The project celebrates and cultivates poems inspired by plants and place. Sensurious, my video-poem featuring drawings by Judy Morris, was short-listed for the New Shoots Poetry prize, 2016. Click here to download the PDF of  New Shoots Anthology: Poems Inspired by Plants.  The text for Sensurious is on p. 32.

 

sensurious from Ian Gibbins on Vimeo.

video art / poetry videos

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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, “Fotogenia – A Showcase” at REELPoetry 2025 (Houston, TX, April, 2025);
• curated selection, International Poetry Festival – Kardamyli – Mani (Kardamyli, Greece, September, 2024);
• official selection, MAPPING at MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico (Almeria, Spain, September – October, … Click here for more.

Street video art

My video poem 42nds is now being projected onto the eastern wall of the Target building in Rundle Street, Adelaide, as part of a project funded by the Adelaide City Council and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) along with 3 other vids by by Caroline Daish and Stewart Daish; John Denlay and David Chapple; and Jessica Lumb. If you can’t make it to the city, you can see it on the small screen, with sound, here.

42nds from Ian Gibbins on Vimeo.

“accidentals (recalculated)” – finalist in 2016 Carbon Culture Poetry Film contest!!

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One of five international finalists for the 2016 Carbon Culture Poetry Film contest, accidentals (recalculated) uses the symbols of mathematics to explore the probability that accidents do happen, if you slip and fall, fly too close to the sun, if your car runs off the road, if you cut your finger, miss a secret assignation, catch (or not) a slip of the tongue, when words fail, when all you have left is abstraction, operators, a lasting approximation, a mathematician’s code…

Watch it on vimeo or check it out with the winner and other finalists here.

Click on the link to read the code: accidentals

Body of Evidence

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Body of Evidence was a multi-medium exhibition inspired by the impact of Art on Health held at the Adelaide Convention Centre 30 May – 1 July, 2016 featuring John Blines, Gina Czarnecki & The Australian Dance Theatre, Meg Cowell, Ian Gibbins, Naomi Hunter, Cheryl Hutchens, Hans Kreiner, Kerryn Levy, Deborah Prior, Damien Shen, Angela Valamanesh & Thomas Yeend. Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh.

I contributed an installation piece called Syntaxin: Kiss and Run, and two videos called Situs Inversus, one for an internal LED screen (which you can see here, with audio), and one, a special projection project (watch it here), on a huge window of the SW corner of the Convention Centre, along with one by Meg Cowell. 

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Body of Evidence

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Body of Evidence is a multi-medium exhibition inspired by the impact of Art on Health held at the Adelaide Convention Centre 30 May – 1 July, 2016 featuring John Blines, Gina Czarnecki & The Australian Dance Theatre, Meg Cowell, Ian Gibbins, Naomi Hunter, Cheryl Hutchens, Hans Kreiner, Kerryn Levy, Deborah Prior, Damien Shen, Angela Valamanesh & Thomas Yeend. Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh.

I contributed an installation piece and two videos, one for an internal LED screen running through the exhibition, and one, a special projection project, on a huge window of the SW corner of the Convention Centre, along with one by Meg Cowell, during the nights of 22-25 June 2016.

Syntaxin: Kiss and Run

2016. Timber, steel, brass, glass, digital prints, magnetic-optical disks, magnetic tape, plate glass, found objects. Dimensions: 182cm W x 41cm D x 165cm H (approx).

‘Syntaxin’ is a protein with a vital role in the molecular mechanism, called ‘Kiss and Run’, that controls the release of chemical messengers from the ends of nerve cells (synapses). The relevant structures can only be seen by specialised microscopes. This work uses Ian’s own electron microscope images of synapses, obsolete data storage devices containing those images, and found objects to … Click here for more.