{"id":26747,"date":"2016-01-15T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=26747"},"modified":"2016-01-15T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:34:13","slug":"internet-poetry-megan-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/internet-poetry-megan-rooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Poetry: Megan Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Twin_Sample_4.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Rooney Okie dog on Santa Monica, 2015, acrylic, marker, ink, crayon, pencil, oil pastel, on free magazines collected on Via Roma, Torino,\u00a021 x 29.7 cm\" width=\"455\" height=\"650\" \/> Megan Rooney, Okie dog on Santa Monica, 2015, acrylic, marker, ink, crayon, pencil, oil pastel, on free magazines collected on Via Roma, Torino,\u00a021 x 29.7 cm<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the wake of rampant, market-led nonsense, art is rekindling its fascination with poetry. Recently, galleries such as BHQFU in New York, David Roberts Foundation in London and SALTS in Basel have been throwing poetry events,\u00a0 and art platforms such as Rhizome and 11:11 have been hosting online projects dedicated to verse. Part of the reason for this increase of interest in poesie is due to the revival of performance art as well as the influence of the internet.\u00a0 The web is not only making it easier for poets to distribute their work, but also changing they way we use words and altering poetry\u2019s material \u2013 our language. Megan Rooney is one of the five poets the art world is listening to.<\/strong> \n<strong>Entnommen aus <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.sleek-mag.com\/products-page\/issues\/47-word-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sleek 47<\/a><\/strong> \nThe net is an important influence on Rooney\u2019s writing. Her style features short sentences and shifting personal pronouns that resemble the parlance of online communication. Nonetheless, she considers this approach accidental. \u201cIt\u2019s the result of years of late night ICQ chat messenger conversations with friends,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s a certain style that comes from talking through devices. Abbreviated, dense. It\u2019s one of the language forms that\u2019s in our environment now, so it&#8217;s natural to combine it with the other forms.\u201d<br \/>\nBased in London but originally from Toronto, there is a sense of urgency and intimacy to her work. In \u201cTilia Americana\u201d, a 2014 commission for UK online artspace Opening Times, she narrates a video with a dream-like monologue while images of female bodies obscured by water- coloured pillowcases float past the screen.<br \/>\nRecently she has completed a day long live performance entitled \u201cLast days. Last days. Last days.\u201d at the Serpentine, which was embedded within the recent exhibition by Duane Hanson. During this, she invited her audience to walk around the performance space while she read poetry alongside videos of the Floridian landscape, while performers created strange choreographed movements.<br \/>\n\u201cI originally conceived this project as sound art,\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cHowever,\u00a0 when I was doing a residency at Fondation Galleries Lafayette in Paris, I had the idea that this text should be listened to while you&#8217;re walking. Moving through a space while listening to something really changes the dynamic.\u201d<br \/>\nThe content of the internet also feeds into what she does. \u201cI&#8217;m really into sifting through the &#8216;trash&#8217; online \u2013 minor news stories that would never make it into the international press if it wasn\u2019t for online news,\u201d she adds. \u201cCertain aspects of my characters are influenced from reading these stories as well as my IRL experiences and personal narrative.\u201d<br \/>\nAs such, she also considers her writing to reflect contemporary theoretical concerns about the instability of identity: \u201cIsn\u2019t that person that gets presented for consumption in newspaper or TV interviews actually just a moment taken out of the flow of being?\u201d she ponders. \u201cThere are so many different conceptions of selfhood that it seems like we sometimes just slip in and out of them. Maybe I take that position that a little further through my work.\u201d<br \/>\nIndeed, Rooney\u2019s work also shifts between the aesthetic and the aural, the visible and the hidden and performance and installation. And even her language seems to be full of visual imagery, created through words instead of shapes, colours or textures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganrooney.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.meganrooney.net<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Text: Francesca Gavin<\/strong> \n<strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/category\/print-features\/\" target=\"_blank\">Print Features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Rooney, Okie dog on Santa Monica, 2015, acrylic, marker, ink, crayon, pencil, oil pastel, on free magazines collected on Via Roma, Torino,\u00a021 x 29.7 cm In the wake of rampant, market-led nonsense, art is rekindling its fascination with poetry. 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