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We are currently in Switzerland working on a variety of projects including this web site. If you are desperate to contact us our atelier tel no. in Basle is 061 271 11 67 or Stripe's handy 0786677289
You can also view a video collaboration with Basle artists Peter Stillmann and
Sussan Schär ( www.supe.ch ) :
'Jack in a Box' on Youtube . Click - poetsofthemachine
Poets of the Machine ( Stripe and Koral). Brief CV :
Formed in 1988: a performance and writing partnership presenting ‘spoken word’ pieces with music backing tracks and video ‘backdrop’.
PotM performed in venues ranging from back room pub poetry nights to The Voice Box at London's South Bank Centre; they appeared in literary, multimedia and art festivals, including the Edinburgh Festival, at openings, dinners and dance parties in Europe and Australia. They have made radio and TV broadcasts and published poetry tracks on various CD's. PotM continue to work together on writing, art performance installation and fashion projects.
Installation/Situational Work.
2001: ‘BookMaze’ installation at the Breadbox Gallery for the Artrage Festival. 100,000 books made a dry-stone wall maze. Made in collaboration with Blum und Ganz, Artsource international exchange artists from Basel.
2003: ‘BookWall’ installation for the Vancouver Art Centre, Albany. 70,000 books made a divided dry-stone wall to be passed through for the opening of the Albany Writer’s Festival.
Fashion and Performance
2005: ‘Return of the Leg’, ‘Fashion show’ for the inaugural Fremantle Fashion Festival - a critique of men’s ‘wear’, made in collaboration with artist and ‘world-traveller’, Minaxi May. (ArtsWA Funding).
2006: ‘The Zone’, Performance: extreme athletic bodies show how lycra gear can meet art as exoskeleton, in collaboration with textile artist Britt Salt.
2007: 'Skin2Skin' Art meets Fashion. Fremantle Arts Centre. PotM exhibited, and performed at the opening showing our latest work . to backing tracks and live vocals.
Publications (Koral)..
Book.
‘Augenblick: The Decisive Moment in 19th and 20th Century Western Philosophy.’
Scheduled for publication in September 2007 by Ashgate Publishers, UK.
Book Chapter.
“In the Blink of an Eye’: Apocalypse and Redemption in Martin Heidegger, in ‘Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th c. German Thought’, ATF (Australian Theological Forum Press) 2006.
http://www.geocities.com/messianism_apocalypse_redemption/abstracts.html
Catalogue Texts
‘Intersection’ catalogue text for exhibition: Margaret Vinciguerra, at Monogramma arte contemporanea, Rome, June 2007.
‘Cosplay’ text fragments accompanying photographs addressing the question of self, and its presentation via a certain Japanese youth culture, exhibition and book: Guy Vinciguerra, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), and Parallax Publishing, WA. 2004.
‘Crossing the Line‘ catalogue essay: ‘Taking Place’, on the changing landscape of Northbridge, Perth, and how place affects identity. exhibition and book: Guy Vinciguerra, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, (PICA), and Parallax Publishing, WA. 2001
Stripe: ‘Remnants of Magic in English Pantomime’. Murdoch Journal of Occult and Hermetic Studies Murdoch University. W.A. 2002
In 2003, PotM had an artists’ studio residency in Basle, Switzerland, their project named Flanerie, consisted of a performance and an exhibition of made objects.(ArtsWA funding)
Wrote, produced and toured: ‘Burning Bush’: a play concerning books, bushfire and the lone male, three performances at Southern Edge Arts, Albany W.A. And a tour of Tasmania during Five Islands Festival 2001. (ArtsWA Funding).
PotM as 'Adjunct Research Fellows', are closely associated with Curtin University Arts School, attached to the Fibre and Textile Department.
Pre-1980
Koral trained and worked in Theatre Wardrobe departments up and down the UK in the 1970s and 80s, and as a Freelance Costume Maker for theatre, TV and opera. She made unwearable earrings and sold them on trendy market stalls in 1980s London. Her interest and practice in designing and making costumes and fashion has been on-going, and she plans to write next on the philosophy of fashion.
Stripe also worked in theatre, acting and directing.
In the UK in 1980, toured with 7:84 Theatre Company in One Big Blow a play about a miner’s brass band. The cast became the Flying Pickets. Seven years performing in UK, Europe, US, Hong Kong,and Australia .
Directed 'Promised Land' for Murray River Performance Group, a community show about migrant experience in Bonegilla Camp. Set in Albury Railway Station.
Directed 'Through the Mill' an Art in Working Life project with workers of Bruck Textile Mill in Wangarrata. Costumes designed and made by Poets of the Machine.
Stripe has just finished five years of work with a writers group in Albany maximum security Prison. |
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