February 4, 2010
Poet, multimedia artist to perform at UW Bothell
UW Bothell and Northwest Film Forum are presenting sound artist, poet, photographer, mixed-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer Cris Cheek for two events.
Cheek will first appear as part of the Writing for their Lives series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Library Room 205 at UWB, where he will perform some of his pieces, read from his new book and take questions. Cheek will also perform an evening of “live writing” or “performance writing” works for sound, text and video at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, at Northwest Film Forum.
Cheek has said that he “projects video about writing and gets in the way of his projections, tries to read the writing, toys with and enacts ideas of trying to read what we might be seeing and changes what is seen by doing so.” His work, indebted to the history of sound poetry, is highly improvisational and ephemeral. He will be presenting the video-text-performance piece monday morning quarterbacking ‘on’ and ‘off’ gods commons, which has appeared on many “best-of” 2009 lists for experimental poetics. He will also be presenting other short videos, live sound pieces and readings from his aclaimed new book part: short life housing (The Gig, Toronto, 2009).
The Film Forum performance will be preceded by a “sound poetry open mic,” with special guests (live and by “telepresence,”) from the world of sound poetry. Tickets for the performance are $9 general, $6.50 for students and $6 for Film Forum members.
View examples of Cheek’s work here.
