Over August 24th - 26th 2023, OBJECT:PARADISE held its first international language happening, curated by 4 collectives, for 3 events, across 2 countries, unified by 1 manifesto: to celebrate the party that language is.
The objective of the project was to promote the subjective experience of poetry by presenting poetry in temporary spaces alongside orchestrated chaos and interdisciplinary modes of expression.
Featuring over fifty actions, performances, readings, installations, screenings, and happenings, the three-day event, functioned itself, as a communual poem that tested the boundaries of performance, curation, and the mundane.
The objective of the project was to promote the subjective experience of poetry by presenting poetry in temporary spaces alongside orchestrated chaos and interdisciplinary modes of expression.
Featuring over fifty actions, performances, readings, installations, screenings, and happenings, the three-day event, functioned itself, as a communual poem that tested the boundaries of performance, curation, and the mundane.
The project was centered around three questions:
1. What is the function of performance in the sharing of poetry in the public space?
2. How does the poet, the poem, and the context relate to each other? And is there a hierarchy?
3. Does poetry exist? If so, what is it?
We give our gratitude to all of the creative people who helped explore these questions--to answer what can and can’t a poetry reading be.
1. What is the function of performance in the sharing of poetry in the public space?
2. How does the poet, the poem, and the context relate to each other? And is there a hierarchy?
3. Does poetry exist? If so, what is it?
We give our gratitude to all of the creative people who helped explore these questions--to answer what can and can’t a poetry reading be.
