Poetry Accompanied by Processed Photography: Dylan Harris
My performance is poetry presented with processed photography, or text.
When programming, optimising and refactoring code can improve quality. I apply similar techniques to poetry. Unlike programming, this breaks grammar, introduces ambiguity, and creates interesting tension, or so I believe!
My photography often applies landscape form to cityscapes. I like to destabilise the horizon to distain the frame.
For each poem accompanied by photography, I selected one complementary photograph, and create many processed deriveratives. Those images may colour the poem, may counter it, may provide harmony.
A typical presentation could be:
autumn
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/4538942F-BA5C-4FF...
mechelen sound
http://127.0.0.1/~dylan/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/5F67DE2A-C97B-4F...
mechelen shoot
http://127.0.0.1/~dylan/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/B6DFF8F8-4759-48...
mechelen scene
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/62F4F5A8-8A95-407...
mechelen shine
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/7F6108F2-3891-4B0...
this bright life
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/2FA5865A-E158-45D...
bremen (i)
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/B2454D02-D542-448...
bremen (ii)
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/483ED8D7-6D14-4DD...
bremen (iii)
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/128E7148-ED84-4E8...
bremen (iv)
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/7BE7C72E-7B17-422...
schelde foot tunnel
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/35AD929A-E92B-435...
All available recitals:
http://dylanharris.org/front/seen,%20heard%29%20poetry/Archive.html
All poems& photographs:
http://dylanharris.org/
The performance version will be at a higher resolution, and will not include the podcast adverts.
I may change the poems presented to tune my recital to the conference.
I will require a standard epoetry performance space:
- with video equipment to present the images to the audience from my laptop;
- with sound equipment to recite my poetry live, preferably from stereo microphones (mono is acceptable, of course);
- with sufficient light on me so I can read my poetry and operate my laptop;
- preferably positioned to be seen by the audience onstage so they know I'm reciting live, but so as not to distract their attention from the images.
Although I'd prefer to recite for 20 minutes, I'm flexible, and can change my recital to reflect circumstances.