Centre for Communication and Poetry Research

Installation / Performance /  Workshops / Saint John, NB > Third Space Gallery > 2017 > ​

Installation / Performance / Community Engagement / Workshops / Toronto, ON > Art on the Danforth > 2016 > ​

Installation / Performance / Workshops / Calgary, AB > Intersite: Festival of Visual Arts > 2015 > ​

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The Centre for Mass Communication and Poetry Research is a pop-up research centre that invites the public to participate in the Centre’s research by calling strangers over the phone to read them poems.

 

The Centre for Mass Communication and Poetry Research at Art on the Danforth 2016

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In addition to the pop-up research centre, The Centre for Communication and Poetry Research collaborated with six local residents, Ronna Bloom, Myra Vargas, Shae Stamp, Hanan Hazime, Alina Tigountsova, and Sean Barrett to produce a series of poems that reflected everyday thoughts. The poems could be heard through listening stations installed in various businesses along the neighbourhood. Acting as an omnipresent ear and intervening mouth (like the telephone), the listening stations and poems amplified the inaudible stratum of internal sound within the larger sonic environment of the Danforth. To learn more vist: Art on the Danforth

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Press: "Artist encourages Saint Johners to cold call each other to read poetry." by Ben Silcox // Telegraph-Journal, 2017. pp. B5.

Curatorial Statement by Emily Saab: "Cold Calling Series"

By Cathy Boyce // Third Space Blog, 2017. Web.

 

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