Drawing for unworded onscreen sound poem, 2018 | paper, graphite, ink | 29.7 x 42cm
Undoing the traditional hierarchies of sound producer (voice) and recorder (device) – similarly writer / reader, performer / listener – this parenthetical poem composed of sounds we might call noise or hum is a stuttering assemblage in the digital register. It moves attention to the listening body. Loss, eruption and interference become structural elements in a material poetics of transmission.
Martina Copley is an artist, curator and writer interested in different modalities of practice and the annotative space. Her doctoral research project at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne considers the transposition of the rhetorical figure of the aside as a poetic strategy in art. Recent projects include No Notes: This is writing, artist publication with Francesca Rendle-Short, 2017; Unhidden, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Between these worlds there is no ordinary continuity, Melbourne Festival ,2016; FM[X] What would a feminist methodology sound like? WestSpace, Melbourne, 2015; A Listener’s guide to bowing, Melbourne School of Architecture & Design. Liquid Architecture & Nite Art Melbourne, 2015. Martina is the coordinator at BLINDSIDE Artist Run Space, Melbourne and currently teaches at LaTrobe College of Art + Design, Melbourne.
