EXHIBITION: GEOMETRIES OF ATTENTION

Dream of building poems but lack the linguistic wherewithal? Put down your pen and unfurrow your brow, for your literary prayers have been answered. Geometries of Attention, three interactive installations by Astrid Lorange and Rene Christen, hold the key to the Rimbaud lurking in your soul. Part poetic, part robotic, these pieces all have in common an interactivity and playfulness that push the boundaries between content and form. “We’re hoping everyone will have some exuberant playtime,” says Lorange, author of the text accompanying Christen’s gadgets. The, “Potential-filled inert objects” create poems using interactive moving discs, sensory Braille and radio waves, all (partly) authored by the audience. Lorange and Christen came together with a shared passion for language and the forms it inhabits. “We’re creating forms as much as we are content,” says Christen. The pair speaks fondly of their first meetings. “We started using a lot of the same vocabulary,” says Christen. Lorange is quick to agree. “There was a really nice nerdy harmonics and disharmonics going on”. From these beginnings sprung the Geometries of Attention, opening at Serial Space on Wednesday, February 3rd. A hands-on approach to poetic forms, these pieces will doubtless get your creative circuits firing.

Feb 3-7, Serial Space, 33 Wellington St, Chippendale