Play! @ The Firestation, Windsor

and Her regime : abstracts

Praxis presents a triptych of Her regime. A fluxus event exploiting the poetic writing process, a fluid performance event, and a non-harmonious video loop.

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Becky : and Her regime I

A society in flux. A society under duress. A society offering a poly-experience. and Her I regime is a participatory event exploring the process of production and performance. and Her I regime seeks to exploit the work force as they take part in a durational performance, moving through process towards product. and Her I regime is 52 rules. and Her I regime is voice on voice. and Her I regime is pen on paper. and Her I regime is a meta-movement.

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Prudence : and Her regime II

A society is created through a collaborative script-writing process. The performer of this Utopia/Dystopia/Topia is determined by a shuffle of the cards, in which each participant will convey to an audience the hand they have been dealt within their own constructed microcosm.

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Nisha : and Her regime III  

The cosmic regime: a microcosm-macrocosm is created and maintained. We attempt to find balance between the 4 elements through poetic rituals, but the structures are illusory. No sooner is harmony achieved in a brief video-poem, than it is upset by a scene change, a new rule. 52 video-poems caught in a loop, the cyclic trap of poetic creativity, strife, and decline. 

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praxis 3

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praxis by : John Sparrow : John will begin by briefly explaining his recent investigations into generative poetics, discussing how generative texts can be used to explore avant garde writing practices and how we might consider the relationship between the authoritative / authorial voice and its subversion through algorithmic processes. He will explain through example, performing a couple of generative texts that touch on these concerns.

praxis by : Becky Cremin, Nisha Ramayya, and Prudence Chamberlain.

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praxis 2

 

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praxis by : Nisha Ramayya: 'Tracing the Muse in Women's Poetic Practice': A consideration of what the Classical Tradition (myth and poetry) has to offer contemporary feminist writers. Reading Rachel Blau duPlessis reading H.D. reading Sappho, the argument spins round one question - "what happens when the Muse writes?" 

praxis by : Rachel Porcheret : ‘Scape’. It explores a poetics of imagined spaces by looking at spaces you cannot physically visit. Through images of mars and the words of dreams I am creating an artist book that investigates the production of and interaction with these spaces.

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praxis 1

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praxis by : Prudence Chamberlain : 'Flippant flâneuse: constructions of a first-person feminist'. Reading a selection of poems that employ a flippant poetics in order to construct a peripheral and mobile female figure, able to interact with, critique and document the contemporary feminist movement and experience.

praxis by : Becky Cremin : Functions in 1-16 : a performance and re-performing experience of the city. Accompanied by A site: A sited city: A sited body, a theoretical exploration of the city as space to re-write and re-construct. 

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