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Artist name: Bronwyn Lovell (poems and drawings) with the talents of Alex Scott (animator) and Meena Shamaly (sound designer)
Show/artwork: Poetic Delights -- a poetry reading with a unique difference – itfeatures a projected backdrop of animated images.
Dates: Aug 19, 7pm and Aug 24 8.30pm
What was your initial motivation for joining the Mudfest Kaliedoscope in 2011?
I wanted to challenge myself and put my work out into the world. A big part of myself thought, 'Are you crazy? How are you going to pull this off?' Because when I pitched the idea I had no idea how I was going to make it happen. Heck, I wasn't even sure if could I draw, let alone work out some way to get those drawings to move! But that's often how I move forward with my work. I agree to things and then there's a deadline looming that terrifies me and somehow that usually inspires a last-ditch effort and I manage to pull through right at the last minute.
Is this your first mudfest show?
Yes. And first festival show ever.
Are their future plans for this show?
Yes, it will be evolving into a Fringe Show later this year and hopefully I will tour with it to other cities, and also send an altered version of it out into the world as an exhibition piece. I have already had expressions of interest for it to be showcased as a slideshow in Sydney.
Who is involved?
Bronwyn Lovell (poet) with Alex Scott (animator) and Meena Shamaly (sound designer)
What is the most exciting thing about the show and the creative process?
The most exciting aspect of the show has been working with Alex and Meena, and handing my work over to them to get creative with and not known what they are going to do with it. When you see the final product it's odd, because it's still your work, but now it's their work too, and the art takes on more than one personality and dimension. It's an amazing feeling.
How do you think audiences will react?
I've never done anything like it. So it's all new to me and I have no idea how audiences will react. I hope they will love it and ideally find it enchanting and maybe even a little hypnotic.
Website/ blog?
http://www.bronwynlovell.com/ (see link on our blogroll as well)
About Bronwyn Lovell :
Bronwynis an emerging poet and spoken word performer. Her poetry has beenfeatured on RRR, SYN FM, 3CR Community Radio, and MelbourneCommunity Television Channel 31. Her work has been accepted for publication inSwamp, Antipodes, ZineWest, Positive Words Magazine, and Paradise Anthology. Bronwyn has a writing residency at Kinfolk Cafe as part of Australian Poetry's national Cafe Poets Program and she is a workshop facilitator forthe Centre for Poetics and Justice. She was the first Australian to compete inthe Women of the World Poetry Tournament in Columbus, Ohio, in March2011. Bronwyn has a Masters in Creative Writing, and a Bachelor in Englishand Film Studies from the University of Sydney. She is currentlycompleting Honours in Cinema and Creative Writing at the University ofMelbourne. Besides poetry and film, her interests include storytelling,comics and linguistics. http://www.bronwynlovell.com/
About Alex Scott:
Alex has had many years involvementwith both the Melbourne Poetry and Film communities, and has recently beenfinding opportunities to bring the two streams together. In 2010, he wascommissioned to produce a large 'animated photographic collage' for the liveperformance: 'Melbourne Poetry Map' in association with the Overload PoetryFestival. In 2011, Alex was commissionedby Randall $tephens, a Melbourne performance poet to produce a 'kinetic textanimation' to accompany one of his performance pieces. This animation has sincebeen screened publicly and released online to very positive responses.
http://www.alexscotteditor.com/
About Meena Shamaly:
Meena is an emerging composer whoscores TV, film and video game projects as comfortably as he works incontemporary production and songwriting projects in a diverse range of genres.He has had his chamber and choral work performed all around Melbourne. Hiscreativity extends to spoken word poetry, which he has performed at the SydneyOpera House among other venues. He is constantly looking for new ways to combinethe worlds of music and poetry. Meena is currently completing a Bachelor ofMusic at Monash University, where he was recently awarded the Peter TahoudinMemorial Prize for composition.
http://www.facebook.com/meenashamalymusic?sk=app_19507961798
Anything else of interest?
Poetic Delights is an innovative example of poetry in the multimedia age. According to Bronwyn, the main objectives of the project were to explore the inter-artpossibilities of poetry, comics, and new multimedia technology; to collaboratewith other artists; to develop her own art in new directions; and to presentpoetry in an unusual way in order to engage a new audience. Poetic Delights combines poet Bronwyn Lovell’s passion for words, the moving image andstorytelling – all in the one show. “Ever since I was a little girl,” says Bronwyn Lovell, “I wanted to write stories and illustrate them as well. Thisshow has given me a chance to revisit my childhood. We’ve created a verypersonal performance, with the feel of a living storybook”.
Poetic Delights has been generously supported by funding from the Arts Departmentand the University of Melbourne StudentUnion. Poetic Delights forms part of the Poetry Double Bill event with fellow poet Darren Parker.
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