Combining Poetry and Art

Kenneth Goldsmith performs a guerilla reading in the MoMA galleries.



Photo: Jackie Armstrong (2013)



Available at URL:
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/blog/combining-poetry-with-visual-art-to-see-and-feel-in-a-new-way (Accessed on 28/04/15)

This Idea came from researching the experience an audience gets when walking around an Art gallery. A typical experience of an art gallery viewing is often taken over by large crowds. This business creates tension and often you can just find yourself walking round without pausing or stopping to look at the material. My experience of going to Art gallery's such as the Tate Modern is that I find it a very vast and a large building to contend with therefore I already feel daunted before I even start. Also I find it hard to connect to the art straight away because all it says is the name of the artist and when it was created. In some ways this is an interesting way to develop own opinions and creativity. However this research created an idea for a collaboration between art and poetry. This has enabled a meaning because I can imagine its like layers words over the painting. Whilst the audience is viewing the painting they are making connections between the words and the painting. they are being stimulated to be engaged with the performance.

This research has enabled me to see the importance of other art form collaborations and from this I plan to do a dance and poetry session with the dancers today.