Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World is a beautiful catalogue published by ARTSPACE and Clouds on the ocassion of the exhibition The Pleasures of Obvious Problems: Meg Cranston 1987-2007, organised by ARTSPACE and curated by Brian Butler and exhibited at ARTSPACE, Auckland last year. I was lucky enough to have Meg sign my copy. I am really interested in her inter-art-writing practice.
As I Told You and Keep Same Over have inspired two writing projects of mine. A fluxus type-performance art piece I scripted last year, ‘Everything Everybody Owns’: A Script for Performance, There are No surprises: Eliminate the Possibility for Surprise, some of which I will include in another post.
The other project was an inventory/list poem, titled Pertaining to; some little things kept. This poem constructs a list of ingredients found on the packaging/label of everyday household items found in the bathroom and kitchen. The ingredients are copied directly down, in the list format as they actually appear on the label, and each item is listed in the poem by way of cataloguing the ingredients the item contains rather than the item itself. When these ingredients are decontextualised and brought into a poetic space they take on a different meaning, becoming strange and unfamiliar, even puzzling, despite the list consisting of nothing more than banal household items.
Working Notes: Thoughts on extending this piece further, have been to divide the poem into different areas of the household – kitchen, bathroom, laundry, etc. I would like to go to great lengths and create a full inventory of all the items in each of those spaces, retaining the format of listing the individuated ingredients of each item and without naming what that item is.
I will include the current version of this project in another post aswell.
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