Tonight in Wollongong I am reading with Anne-Marie Te Whiu, David Stavanger and Melinda Smith. Book on Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/BMEZV
WAVES AND PARTICLES - exhibition at Project Contemporary Artspace, 4-15 November 2020
Being Wollongong-born and bred, I am really excited to take some of my artwork back there for a show at Project Contemporary ArtSpace. ‘Waves and Particles’ includes work made over the past three years which asks - what are we made of? It is about our composition and formation as human beings. Ceramic works, video, text and photographs examine the way our geological strata of experience accumulate, the shifting water and weather of our emotional seascape, how we navigate the terrain of our social environment. Project is open Weds - Fri 11 am - 5 pm and Sat - Sun 12 pm - 4 pm. If you are in town, pop in and say hello!
Lurk Burley Griffin - Contour 556
I am having a lot of fun as a member of the ‘Lurk Collective’, creating site-specific video poetry for the Contour 556 Festival which opens on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin (and a few other sites around town!) on Friday 9 October. The other members of the collective are Caren Florence, Melinda Smith and Zoe Anderson, and we are creating encounters with a number of lurkers around the lake - pick-up artists, surveillance cameras, and rakali - the native water rat. Here is a teaser for my piece, and you can find us on the web, facebook , instagram, twitter @BurleyLurk , and the Lurk channel on Vimeo. Even better watched in situ at the lakeshores, or you can follow an interactive twine adventure on our website.
New poetry collection coming in 2021!
While the COVID shutdown felt like a time of low energy and little motivation, something I did do was compile and submit a poetry manuscript in response to a callout from Recent Work Press for their 2021 publication program. And I am thrilled to share the news that I was successful! As you see, I join a list of amazing writers, and am honoured to be among their company. The book is due for release in May - watch this website or follow me on facebook or instagram @jacquiamalins for more details on the launch…
Tuesday 28 July - Being Moved - Rhythmic Connection in Spoken Word - Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online →
On Tuesday evening at 7pm (AEST) I am presenting the first in a series of four lectures ‘Investigations into Rhythm’ for Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online, curated by the wonderful Waffle Irongirl. I am presenting SESSION 1: Being Moved - Rhythmic Connection in Spoken Word. This will be followed on the next three Thursday and Tuesday evenings by lectures by Sam Ferrante, Emilie Collyer and Melizarani Selva.
In spoken word performance, our text is not on a flat page. It is in our voices and bodies in pitch, tone, movement and rhythm, working in the space between performer and audience. I will emotional affect in spoken word at the intersection of mind and body, thought and sensation. How does rhythm connect performer and audience through the body? How can it help us to perform, convey or evoke an emotional response in our listener? And you will have a chance to experiment with your own rhythms too.
Bookings are essential, and the cost of tickets is tiered so you can pay what you can afford. The ticket link is HERE.
I would love to see you on Tuesday night - come and be moved!
Being a Dilettante at ANCA
Between Thursday 22 July and Sunday 9 August 2020, I will be spending each Thursday - Sunday from midday until 5pm working on a residency at ANCA. And on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, you can come and see what I am up to. Bookings are necessary, due to COVID restrictions - see link below.
A dilletante, a dabbler. Inch deep, mile wide, flittering from distraction to distraction. When you can’t see the through-lines and threads in your meanderings, when it is all tangents and no centre. When everything seems disparate and disconnected, how do you recognise the patterns of your preoccupation? How to put the bits together and make something of substance?
‘Dilletante’ is derived from the Latin ‘to take delight’. In this process-based residency, I will apply and reflect on tactics which have proved fruitful in my creative practice so far. As a multidisciplinary artist working with material, text, image and performance, this will involve reading, writing, speaking and moving as I combine seemingly disparate elements and reflecting on each day’s process. Poetic concepts from Jane Hirschfield’s ‘Ten Windows’ will provide touchstones to shape and test each day’s investigation. Raw material includes writing produced over the past two years, and experimental video sequences created in recent months.
While this will be a private residency, there will be a opportunities for interested people to visit and engage with work in progress on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Maximum 10 people per session, free to attend, bookings required. CLICK HERE TO BOOK
Re:pose at Chutespace, M16 Artspace
I have just installed a new work in the gorgeous ‘Chutespace’, a repurposed library chute at M16 Artspace in Griffith, ACT.
This piece is related to recent stop-motion animations I have developed. It is a light and dynamic installation of tracing paper and bubblewrap. Check it out, along with three other excellent (larger) exhibitions! It is better IRL and in 3D!
“Pose. Move. Pose again. Hold your pose, a desired, defined shape. Maintain your composure but don't be a poser. How do you find repose?”
Smith's Varietal #171 - Wednesday 22 January 2020 at Smith's Alternative, Canberra!
I will be doing live poetry with video at Smith’s Varietal, the next iteration of the piece I performed at Poetry on the Move in October last year. Come and enjoy my poetry circus, as well as amazing music and comedy - starts at 9pm!
Cygnet Folk Festival - January 2020!
From 10-12 January 2020, I will be at Cygnet Folk Festival! I am looking forward to soaking up lots of music and poetry in between giving a couple of performances of ‘Words in Flight’, joining the hurly-burly of the poetry debate, and popping up at a poets breakfast or two. Hoping to get a bit of dancing and singing in too!
Get a look at the wonderful program here: https://www.cygnetfolkfestival.org Maybe I will see you there?
If it's nearly November, it must be Melbourne!
I am excited about my first Melbourne gigs, coming up in November!
On Friday 1 November, I will be zooming in with ‘Words in Flight’, with Melbourne Poets Union at Pride of our Footscray. Is it a bird, is it a plane? Is it poetry, is it theatre? It is all of these - come and see for yourself! Click through to the facebook event for all the details HERE
Then on Wednesday 6 November I will be doing a reading for Girls on Key alongside ReVerse Butcher at Open Studio, Northcote. Can’t wait! The facebook event, with everything you need to know, is HERE
And both events include an open mic - so bring your words to share too!
