Evgenia Emets: November 2016

Minuteglass

Online visual poem http://minuteglass.evgeniaemets.vision/ inspired by a philosophical question of the poetry behind every-day numbers of real time statistics counters. It was created in collaboration with Victor Vorski and connects to the real time statistics of people born and dying every minute, every day, reflecting on the idea of appearance and disappearance.

Minuteglass as a hidden page in the book ‘Do we have a common language?’

Do we have a common language

Book Launch & Performance: Do we have a common language?

Doors 7.00 pm Performance 7.30 pm

16 December 2016
King’s College Chapel at
King's College London, 2nd Floor, King’s Building, The Strand
London WC2R 2LS
RSVP: info@evgeniaemets.vision or register at Eventbrite

Enter the Strand Reception, proceed directly along the ground floor until you reach the Great Hall on your left and the Foyer on your right. Turn right into the Foyer and climb either set of stairs to the 2nd Floor. The Chapel will be directly in front of you at the top of the stairs.

You are invited to celebrate the publication of the first book by Evgenia Emets Do we have a common language? An artist book of poetry in English and Russian focusing on forms of language – visual and sonic, is an organic continuation of Evgenia’s art practice. The book is an invitation to the audience to explore how written word as symbol of time, with its density and transparency, reflects its perception in occupying the page and sound space of the poems.

The evening will include a series of performances evoking poems from the book through sound poetry and a short talk by the artist. Evgenia will transform King’s College Chapel through and exhibition of her graphic scores in the form of drawings, which inspire her performances. The audience will be also invited to collaborate in re-creating a poem together filling the space of the Chapel with voices.

‘Do we have a common language? was produced by an independent publisher Cygnnet (www.cygnnet.com) and designed in collaboration with Anastasija Nikitina. The book is published in a limited edition of 20 signed copies, with a handwritten page inside the book, visual poetry drawings, each copy is signed and numbered by the artist.

Performances

The Wave

The Wave. Ink on paper. Unique. Dimensions variable. 2016

The Wave. Performace: poetry, voice, sound, singing bowls.

During the two nights, November 10 and 11, 2017, I performed a sound poem ‘The Wave’ at L'Abri in Geneva. The poetry has been inspired by the history of the space itself. Having been built as a WWI bunker, with its thick concrete walls designed to temporarily host and preserve life, it leaves an impression of the atmosphere of darkness, separation from the world, but at the same time of a womb-like safety.

The poem works with the emergence of language through sound, dwelling on sonic qualities of the words, the juxtaposition between the vowels and consonants, and their interplay. The Wave starts as a legible flow of narrative, turning into an invocation and exploding in a free-flowing stream of vocalised sounds.

Entering L’Abri space I feel I am entering a Egyptian tomb, in which life can be preserved and transformed … through sound. Certain themes within the poem could not be avoided, they came through me, as the space intended: war and peace as mental conditions, human and planetary time, language and its history. I have realised once again that it is impossible to be detached from what the space dictates, the only way is to work with it and to sing it. Drawing The Wave serves a graphic score to the performance and a visual interpretation of the idea of continuous sound waves in space. The visual and sound installation was created by Analema Group.

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