[Nettime-bold] VISIBLE VERSE @ P a c i f i c C i n é m a t hè q ue

[By Any Medium Necessary <hshaley@emspace.com>]

Feb 17, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Heather Haley @
By Any Medium Necessary
Phone:(604) 535-6514
Email: hshaley@emspace.com

V i s i b l e V e r s e

poetry readings & screenings

with host Tanya Evanson

featuring the screening, benefit & celebration

of

" D y i n g f o r t h e P l e a s u r e "
a videopoem beyond road rage and autoeroticism

written by Heather Haley, directed by Katrin Bowen, produced by Sherry McGarvie


T h u r s d a y , M a r c h 6 , 2 0 0 3 , 7 : 3 0 P M

P a c i f i c

C i n é m a t h è q ue , 1 1 3 1 H o w e St. $7.


Readings:
Alice Tepexcuintle
Doug Knott (from Los Angeles)
Katrin Bowen
Heather Haley

Screenings:

"Wista"
by RJ Tuna

"The Lines I Draw Upon My Body"
by Dena Ashbaugh

"The Sturgeon Song"
"Pencil Thin Moustache"
by Alice Tepexcuintle

"Wings"
"Psychic Defense Training for Ex-Lovers"
"In the Hebrew Cemetery"
by Doug Knott

"Shattered"
"Someone"
by Katrin Bowen

Featured Screening:


"Dying For the Pleasure"
by Heather Haley & Katrin Bowen

Artists' Reception:

Groovy music and goodies
for everyone
the eclectic rythms of DJ James Taylor
Free hors d'oeuvre
Cash bar

Vancouver, BC	"Whether this hybrid is referred to as poetry video or poetry film, a wedding of word and image is vital," according to media poet, Heather Haley, founder of the Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival. Along with spoken word artist and acclaimed videopoem director, Katrin Bowen, she was awarded a Canada Council Spoken and Electronic Words grant. They have produced Dying For The Pleasure, employing a poem-as-script strategy, one lifted from the pages of "Sideways," Haley's forthcoming book to be published by Anvil Press.

Dying For The Pleasure is a darkly humorous, kaleidoscopic trip down Memory Lane, the audience witness to a woman's anxiety surrounding the loss of her humanity after crawling inside to become enveloped, shielded and cut off from others by a body of steel. Once behind the wheel, she is transformed into a cyborg of sorts, a car/woman driven closer to deliverance. The theme is timely with Vancouver's streets terrorized by young racers crashing their fancy fast cars at incredibly high speeds - but automobile accidents have long been the single greatest cause of death to people aged 16-24. 

At the intersection of flesh and metal, Dying For The Pleasure explores a woman's dread and infatuation with the car and car culture.

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