Dark Enough

Dark Enough, by Jeanne Liotta, text by Lisa Gill

Digital, 7 min., 2011

A proscenium stage for poetry to play upon, in a controlled cosmic collision of technologies past and present. Sound was composed by myself for 60 cycle speaker hum and Tibetan bell, a chaos/cosmos pairing as sonic metaphor for our earthly existence on a planet spinning in a cosmic sea of background radiation reverberating in space/time from the big bang, punctuated briefly and fleetingly by human consciousness in the form of thought made word.

Jeanne Liotta (NYC/Colorado) makes films and other cultural ephemera. Her interests are various and include stochastic time utilization, promiscuous media, anarchist utopias, and unadorned facts. www.jeanneliotta.net

Lisa Gill (Albuquerque NM)  is the author of five books of poetry,including Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, Dark Enough, Mortar & Pestle, and The Relenting–which is either a play or a poem, for 2 voices, a rattler and a woman. Her most recent  book, Caput Nili: How I Won the War & Lost My Taste for Oranges is a graphic novel and has just been published by West End Press with Burning Books, distributed by University of New Mexico Press. Lisa was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature in 2007, and is coordinator of poetry  for Church of Beethoven and the founder of the Local Poets Guild in Albuquerque. She frequently collaborates with artists and musicians.

part of the Counterpath video poetics series mt/time, series page here