The Way of Comets: performance and discussion

The Way of Comets: performance and discussion

A performance of poetry and a discussion of its practice and significance featuring James Massiah, Eugene Ostashevsky, Ellen Rutten, Jackie Wang, Belinda Zhawi and Metahaven, one of a series of events programmed with Metahaven alongside their exhibition VERSION HISTORY.

In times of political, environmental and social upheaval, poetry has a capacity to testify to emotional experience through language, moving far beyond facts or fairy tales. As an art form in search of lyrical waypoints between observation and action, sense and thought, poetry is a highly fluid, persistent medium. Under the guiding image of ‘the way of comets’ – paraphrased from 20th-century Russian writer Marina Tsvetaeva’s verse, The Poet – this assembly of contemporary practitioners will gather to perform their work and explore the ramifications of the medium.