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words & works

a selection of published and exhibited what-do-you-call-ems …

poetry films:

soft ground audio visual poem
official selection festival screenings in Australia, Denmark, USA
in permanent collections including The Poetic Phonoteque

in this place called mine
outdoor screening at Place 2012, Adelaide Institute of Architects
Take Your Place Film Competition, joint first


written poems:

Treasure after Mother is My Monarch by Julia deVille
Meniscus Literary Journal, Vol 11 Issue 1

psst: Meniscus is published as an interactive pdf – click on index titles to go straight to the piece/s you want to read … page numbers will take you back to index.

before before
Poetry d’Amour 2020, WA Poets Inc, Mulla Mulla Press

voice
Australian Poetry Journal, Issue 8.2 Spoken. Eds: Andrew Galan & David Stavanger, with a focus on producing the first in-print journal of Australian spoken word

A Dead Stick Insect for G.O.D and Time Scratched Record
Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 44 Gondwanaland

Plan A: run away to the circus
InDaily Poet’s Corner

waiting at the stop.
Rochford Street Review, Issue 19

the moon she is enormous and train lines whistle louder when crisp
Writ Poetry Review, Issue 2, Issue 4

more here


visual poetry / visual art: 

solo exhibitions:

a square black and white photo of indigo’s poetic tools … an assortment of objects are laid out on a dark polka dot fabric, in a deliberate design, all connected by touch ... flowing from the top left a plastic right angle french curve ruler, a fabric lint brush, a gridded A3 cutting board, a boxed set of small screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, a vintage auto toolkit tin filled with threads and snips and vintage velvet metal pin cushion and other assorted bits and bobs, a silver scalpel ... and at the bottom of the cutting mat, an indigo eli calling card. an artefact label added to the bottom of the image, black text on white reads: Poet's tool kit, circa July 2023.

The Poetry of Object 0.2
online & in exhibition spaces across SA
SALA Festival & Poetry Month

The Poetry of Object 0.1
Tooth and Nail Gallery

NEST
residency and interactive showing/exhibition
The Goodwood Institute

collaboration:

Nothing to See Hear
created on residency at Pervasive Media Studios UK

group exhibitions:

we are not going back, we are coming around, The Substation, Singapore

Escapisms, Poem Atlas, UK

Emergence, Barossa Regional Gallery
tin shed tea rose, straw into gold

Flower, Fruit, and Flood, My Dear, Part of Things, regional SA

Remake, Pepper Street Arts Centre

A Bright and Savage Land, h.ART (now Fabrik)

Threads of Industry, h.ART
luxury, apology, Child Protection. Act.

30 Rules To Live By, ARTillery (Amnesty SA)                            

more here


audio:

(with(in)side) out
Cordite Poetry Review, Issue 88: Transqueer

live audio visual experience: (with(in)side) out development showing, Kiss Club, CIA Studios WA

la la bird ... a little doodle by indigo eli of little budgie walking along ... its footprints show behind ... it has a speech bubble from its beak "la la la". black pen on white background

Dear Madame,
poem audio-produced and broadcast by ABC Radio National

 


creative documentation & postal projects:

I Noted this for you
for Noted Writers Festival, ACT

enveloping (the human) connection (in 36.5 letters)

enveloping connection project indigo eli

more here


public art: 

Poet Tree
Funky trunks, Kings Park Spring Festival, Kings Park and Botanic Garden WA

Tram Stop 6 – Way To Go
Concrete poetry street sign project, Marion Council SA

If your life was a page …
the nameless project, Spoke Festival SA


articles / interviews:

Falling without Floundering: an artist’s guide to conflict resolution
Australian Author Online, Australian Society of Authors

Interview with Catherine Long and Daniel Savage
Access2Arts


performance poetry / spoken word:

past performances include…

Adelaide Fringe, The Free Edinburgh Fringe (feature for Martin Daws and Sophia), Perth Poetry Festival … Emerging Writers Festival, National Young Writers Festival, Adelaide Festival of Ideas … countless poetry slams, including improv poetry slams … WA Circus Festival (training week performance night), Voicebox Wales International specials, … yada yada yada

Blast, Canberra Theatre Centre 2011

 

Blast spoken word showcase curated by Omar Musa
Canberra Theatre Centre

2011 Australian Poetry Slam national final
Sydney Theatre

2009 Australian Poetry Slam national final
Sydney Opera House, third place

2008 Australian Poetry Slam national final 
Sydney Opera House


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