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Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow – tour: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY, 6 JULY

Really pleased to be presenting Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen at

We Need to Write About Art: Ekphrasis Now, Leeds Trinity University on Saturday, 6th July.

For those of you who don’t know, Frame to Frames is a unique bilingual publication with poems on artworks and a QR link to the 17-film poetry film screening based on the poems, first held at FOTOGENIA, Mexico City, winter 2023. The festival painting I selected as a potential prompt was Huapango Torero by Mexican non-binary artist Ana Segovia, and the theme was taking a stand against animal cruelty and machismo. Other artists followed their own equally inspiring artworks and paths.

The Frame to Frames project celebrates three creative forms: art inspiring art, translation and intermedia. So often in watching poetry films the poem passes you by, but the book allows you to press pause, really take in the poem on the page then return to the film. Here, it is possible to see how words and meaning can be transformed through the filmmaker’s process.

BILINGUAL DOCUMENTARY MADE FOR REELPOETRY, HOUSTON, WITH A SELECTION OF THE FILMMAKERS

See https://vimeo.com/929116208 for a bilingual documentary on the making of the project from five of the poetry filmmakers.

CURRENT TOUR DATES

The Frame to Frames project has screenings at: FOTOGENIA, Mexico City, December, 2023; REELpoetry, Houston, April, 2024; The International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia, Germany, May, 2024; ‘We Need to Talk about Ekphrasis Now’ Leeds Trinity University, July, 2024; Bristol Literary Film Festival, October, 2024; Maldito Festival de Videopoesía, Albacete, Spain, November, 2024.

Artists: Patricia Killelea, US; Tova Beck Friedman, US; Alejandro Thornton, AR; Colm Scully, IRL; Janet Lees, UK (Lois P Jones and Elena K Byrne, US); Martin Sercombe, (Thom Conroy) NZ; Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran, US; Csilla Toldy, HU, IRL; Finn Harvor, CA; Javier Robledo, AR; Beate Gordes, DE; lan Gibbins, (Judy Morris); Carlos Ramirez Kobra, MX; Penny Florence, UK; Meriel Lland, UK; Ana Pantic, RS;  Sarah Tremlett (UK).

COPIES AVAILABLE FROM

Click on the link top right of the LIBERATED WORDS Home Screen to order copies or go to

liberated words.com/store

 

LEEDS TRINITY SYMPOSIUM

https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/events/events/we-need-to-talk-about-art-ekphrasis-now.php

Organised by Oz Hardwick, Leeds Trinity University and Cassandra Atherton, Deakin University, Australia,  the symposium focuses on ‘current thinking devoted to ekphrastic responses to artworks in diverse media’.

As they state: ‘While James A. W. Heffernan’s monograph, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1991), remains one of the most influential works on ekphrasis, his definition of ekphrasis as “the verbal representation of visual representation” is becoming increasingly inadequate.’

A central focus of the event is Oz and Cassandra’s book launch – Dancing about Architecture and Other Ekphrastic Maneuvers  (mad hat–press.com) which includes poems responding to a variety of types of  visual media, including: TV, photography, dance, architecture, film etc. A real must-buy.

Papers that interrogate  ekphrasis in relation to  these subjects and many others are included in the symposium with sections as follows: ‘Moving Words’;  ‘Learning Encounters’; ‘Ekphrastic Lives’; ‘Ekphrastic Identities’; ‘Ekphrastic Collaborations’; ‘Looking at Gender’; ‘Testing Boundaries’ and ‘Other Angles’.

I am really pleased that Janée J. Baugher – one of the judges of Frame to Frames and  author of The Ekphrastic Writer : Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020), will also be there from America. She will be presenting on  ‘Science Ekphrasis: Teaching and Learning Applications’.   Baugher explores  the extraordinary breadth of this subject with a powerful abstract, which may give you a clue to the promising day ahead:

‘—there’s a myriad of opportunities for cross-disciplinary engagement. In the classroom for instance, art-viewing can lead to a deeper understanding of technology, engineering, mathematics, and the human body. Examples include photomicrography, an art form that unites digital time-lapse stills of specimens seen through light microscopes; the kinetic sculptures of Alexander Calder, which can be studied for their relationships with the ancient art of origami; the digital art of Hamid Naderi Yeganeh whose mathematical formula drawings of birds in flight are as beautiful as they are instructional, and the Körperwelten Exhibition, the long-running traveling art display of plastinated human bodies. In a world in which we can often feel divided, viewing art as a means of teaching and learning can help us to feel evermore connected.’

I think that says it all.

EVENT LOCATION:

Village Hotel Leeds North, 186 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds LS16 5PR