Scorns of slings in my slip, 2002, Sculpture for performance, Monofilament, rubber, wire, salt
Scorns of Slings in my Slip is a collaborative project with poet Edwin Torres, both a hanging sculpture inspired by his poem THE VASE OF THE UNIVERSE and a costume for Torres to wear in performance.
This exhibition started with a question: "What would it be like to step inside a poem?" - namely, somehow beyond our voices and implicit heft, rhythms and timings of our voice box. What would happen if we reversed this situation and put poetry into voluble space: Would we step into our voices? Into our bodies? Would rendering a word in an object alter how that word/object would be understood when recognized, presenting for the reader/viewer the suddenly real/read possibility of engaging the text field with new eyes?
Excerpt from the catalog essay by Andrew Cullinan, curator for Magnitude, an exhibition of collaborations between poets and sculptors, The Educational Alliance, 2002