Description
Rhys Trimble’s KØR is a transcription from 6 performances / rituals in different countries / linguistic environments an ectype out of time / ex tempore, in which picosecond decisions lead to adventures of expression. KØR accesses the unmediated communication highways via text & performances through gesture and hyper-rapid reading in order to overcome the memory lapses associated with ADHD. The title as a reference to Cora a language beneath verbal signification. Now kør / core as hardcore, 5 core /beneath/pure/extremity of action-as-text. Drawn from the scattering of papers drawn from a bag of junk: pieces from workshops ran and attended, other poets work, laminated words made from a medieval cywydd, academic text on destructive art, half glimpsed SMS cut-ups, now laid-out as a physical river of lexes, an intext made into poems.
Miscellaneous. Poetry. Hybrid.
“I love the visceral{ity} page. A beautiful sprawl of living language. A series of glyphic marks that asks the question - where is the body on the page?”
—Edwin Torres
“The tension that has energised Rhys Trimble’s outstanding performance practice for many years is between the page, whether that of medieval Welsh poetry or more recent avant-garde precursors, and sounded events that leave a trail of paper, torn and scattered across the stage. The voice may be the origin of poetry, but here it’s a voice that’s inhabited both by the traces of written text it leaves behind and the recording possibilities of technology, looping and sampling itself even when there’s no machinery involved. With a nod to David Antin, and a joyful exuberance that is all its own, KØR is a transcription of performance situations into a dynamic score in reverse that opens language to its own potential, its flux and flood, its llif – and its life. Not just a record of encounters on different continents but an effervescent remix for the page, it crosses time zones and cultures as it carries with it the encounter between Welsh and English as a source of unique vitality.”
—Zoë Skoulding
“Word calls word, sound calls sound, Trimble’s multilingual polyrhythms seep through the page, spilling, surging, gushing, swarming through the inescapable tensions and intensities of liveness.”
—Iris Colomb
Author Bio
A highly motivated, focused and self-directed poet, translator and editor with an international reputation. Expertise in applied writing, practice-led cultural hybridity, aesthetic hybridity and multilingualism, improvisation, community engagement innovative teaching practice, Celtic, modernist, experimental and lyric poetry with a unique emphasis on performance. Previous works include Hexerisk (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2014), Swansea Automatic (Aquifer Books, 2015), and The Red Book of Hergest Ward (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2018).
Author City: North Wales WAL