Opening Sources is an online poem continuously written by anonymous co-authors. Visitors are invited to click words/phrases and type replacements.
On occasion this poem has been read live as a performance. In such events, the text is projected on a large screen and an audience edits via phones and laptops while the reading is underway. A loop of feedback forms: performer becomes proxy as the audience articulates its experience of itself to itself in a (mediated) collective voice.Past readings:
A four-hour online version with dozens of participants also took place 12.3.09 as part of Streamflow Conditions, curated by Judd Morrissey for Subito Press.
—ihatch / clearblock.net