Sunday 14 September, 3PM-4PM
Estuaries
Texting Images: BLINDSIDE & EWF Readings
‘Texting Images’ is a partnered program between Blindside and the Emerging Writers Festival that commissions original works of ekphrastic writing. This year, we invited four writers to produce a work of ekphrasis in response to artworks exhibited at local artist-run initiatives.
Under the guidance of poet and critic Lucy Van, writers were encouraged to think about the paradoxical nature of representation – the ‘energy of arrest’ central to the creative act – that comes to bear on the task of rendering visual works into text. Responding to artworks displayed within the vast, and fast, artist-run scene, these writers stage their encounters with an isolated moment in recent exhibition history.
Come celebrate the meeting of art and writing with a special afternoon of ekphrastic readings.
Blindside Gallery
The Nicholas Building Room 14, Level 7, 37 Swanston Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000.
Featuring...
Mito Elias
Mito Elias is a Cape Verdean artist and storyteller known for his exploration of language in various forms. A key figure in the Creole diaspora, he blends poetry, sound, and visual arts. Emerging in the 1980s as a voice for Cape Verde’s Utopia generation, he later studied at Ar.Co in Lisbon and engaged with the […]
Charlie Lee
Charlie Lee is a performance designer, artist, and writer from Aotearoa working across dance, textiles, costume making and film. Led by queer/trans* ecological methodologies and aesthetics of collapse, they make work which sits in in-between zones, precarious balances, and feelings of anticipation. Charlie was part of the Emerging Writers Program at Seventh Gallery in 2024 […]
Dani Netherclift
Dani Netherclift lives on unceded Taungurung Country in the High Country of Victoria. She holds a doctorate in creative writing. Her first book, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, a long-form lyric essay about witnessing the drowning deaths of her father and brother as a teenager, and processing the idea of an absent body over […]
Audrey Pfister
Audrey Jo Pfister is an editor, writer, and arts worker currently based in Naarm/Melbourne but originally from Dharawal land/Wollongong. Audrey is the General Manager at un Projects, and previously the Kudos Gallery Coordinator, Runway Journal board member, and Framework Editor-in-Chief. Audrey has written for Memo, Running Dog, Overland, SOFT CENTRE, Soft Stir, FBI radio and […]
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