Please join us for the launch of this year's Future Movement project.
Future Movement 2025 book project launches under the Artistic Directions of Kaye Mahoney. Poetry Sydney in collaboration withThai born Sydney based artist Kaye Mahoney are open for submissions for experimental interactive literature, poetry, hybrid and digital media compositions that correspond to this year’s Future Movement theme.
Theme: Kaye Mahoney’s 100 Telegrams (2020)
As with telegrams used in the 20th century, Mahoney’s “2020 Telegram” were messages to be urgently delivered and received. They were often confronting. The process of reception was crucial. They are completed by the recipient who is compelled to “read” the dissonance between image and words – words that may be couched in irony, humour, sarcasm, wordplay, rhetoric or outright naming calling. Some may find parallels between the imagery and the critical implications of the text. Others may temperamentally respond, as if to a call to action. Yet, such associations may be co-incidental. For Mahoney, 2020 Telegrams reflect the struggle to rationalise how comfort, beauty and privilege can co-exist alongside inequality, destruction, corruption, exploitation and the collective trauma of a world in environmental crisis.
The Telegrams have been separated into three categories: PERSON / EARTH / THING; which operate as cues for poets and artists to correspond to.
The program launches at Since I Left You (SILY), on Tuesday, 29 July 2025. Artists and poets will have the opportunity to select a Telegram from one of the three categories: PERSON / EARTH / THING. Participants will then have time to create a corresponding work with submissions closing on Sunday, 31 August 2025.
For more information please visit:
https://poetrysydney.org/2025/07/23/future-movement-2025/
Poetry at SILY is a quarterly poetry event that imbues the heritage environment of the YCK Laneway precinct, which was established as an activation initiative following the pandemic to attract people back into the city.
All are welcome and there will be an open-mic.
WHAT: Project launch of Future movement: PERSON EARTH THING
WHEN: 6-9pm Tuesday 29 July 2025
WHERE: Since I Left You, 338 Kent Street, Sydney
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