Interior Poetry
Installations, 2014
The project "Interior Poetry" consists of a series of objects to which the artist has added new pieces over the course of a year. All the installations of the cycle are unified by the presence, re-working and exposure of poetry. The electronic and electro-mechanic objects are shaped like monstrous household machines which present the author’s texts depending on the particular medium (via projections, mixing audio recordings, transferring text onto a screen according to a pre-programmed pattern etc.) Punte is interested in overcoming the automation of language by abandoning standard syntax, exemplified by the emphasis on text in his work. This creates clouds of meaning from his poetry; a database of phrases; a random connection of individual words. The artist’s work with machines aims to generate controlled coincidences.
Artist's Bio:
Artūrs Punte is a poet and media artist, one of the founders of Orbita (1999), author of many books of poetry, an editor and a publisher. He has participated in many exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, both individually and as a member of Orbita. Some of Punte’s most recent exhibitions include "Draudzības (re)konstrukcija" at the KGB Building (2014), the Cēsis Arts Festival (2014), the Tallinn Graphics Biennale at the KUMU Museum of Modern Art (2014), the New Theatre Festival "Lätikama" (2012), the International Poetry Festival "Slowwwo" in Kaliningrad (2012), the exhibition "texts=attēls" at the Contemporary Arts Centre "kim?" (2012), the "SlovoNova" Poetry Festival in Perm (2013). Punte was also the curator of the project "Riga Poetry Map."