ION 1.1.07.0007 (NOTHING ELEGANT)
Channel: WASI CHU
Date: 2014-05-04

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ION 1 is a crowd-sourced series of 111 dynamic sound poems by the Post-Art Poets (monitored and updated by micmac) spanning Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (which can be freely read here: www.bartleby.com/140/). The work layers 7 (and in later instances as many as 32) readings of the 'Tender Buttons' poems into single clips.  

The weaving, competing readings moving in and out of sync recontextualizes Stein's famous text in a way perhaps more familiar to our 21st century high-speed information culture. The fastest participants are drowned in the sounds of other participants, while the slowest are left alone in an emptying soundspace. ION 1 if nothing else plucks Tender Buttons from the untouchable position great writers' works are often allotted, and acts as a space for any participant to contribute to its re-creation through a social performance.

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