poetry / music / art / science
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.
My video poems situs inversus viscerum totalis, originally developed for the Body of Evidence exhibition at the Adelaide Conventional Centre, and catclaws were shown at the 5th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, 10th December, 2016. Click on the images below to see the videos.
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.
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 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, … Click here for more.
open home was published in Uneven Floor (2016), where you can read the text.
Cataplexy was published in e•ratio 21 (2015), where you can read the text.
SPSS was published in Cordite Poetry Review, 2015.
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This piece uses text sampled from The Advertiser and is published in otoliths 40 along with another animated poem: The Various Contrivances By Which….
The images here are screen grabs from the video-poem below:
