
BLIND(cite) x Mantissa Poetry Review
Sean West, Guido Melo, Raynen Bajette O’Keefe, Josephine Mead
2 Sep 2021
This event brings together contributor's from Mantissa's inaugural issue, with readings from Sean West, Josephine Mead, Guido Melo, and Raynen Bajette O’Keefe, alongside a discussion of poetics and practice.
Mantissa Poetry Review is a printed creative publication based in Naarm, bringing together a collection of works that aim to celebrate writing as an experimental and real experience. Their inaugural issue is a hot conglomeration of mindscapes, deviations, visual poetry, prose and verse. It is a collection of writing that aims to stretch the genre in a variety of forms.
This event, exploring practice and poetics emerges from BLIND(cite), bringing together a series of programs exploring referents, processes and entanglements. The artists, writers, thinkers and practitioners brought together through this notion of the citation will engage performance, readings, cacophonies of speaking and experimental pedagogies, in considering what it might mean to sift through and turn toward all that which informs practice.
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Thursday 2 September, 6pm
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This event brings together contributor's from Mantissa's inaugural issue, with readings from Sean West, Josephine Mead, Guido Melo, and Raynen Bajette O’Keefe, alongside a discussion of poetics and practice.
Sean West is a Meanjin-based poet, disability support worker, and workshop facilitator. He has received an Arts Queensland Individuals Fund grant in 2021 and has been shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2021, 2020 and 2019. He is the founding editor of Blue Bottle Journal.
Find him at www.callmemariah.com
Guido Melo is an Afro-Brazilian-Latinx multilingual author and poet based in Naarm (Melbourne). Currently undertaking a Bachelor of Arts in Writing & Digital Media at Victoria University, his words can be found in Meanjin Quarterly, Kill Your Darlings Magazine, Peril Magazine, Colournary Magazine, Mantissa Poetry, Ascension Magazine, SBS Voices, SBS Portuguese, Cordite, Voz Limpia, Alma Preta Jornalismo and Guia Negro News. Guido is a member of the Sweatshop Literacy Movement, a columnist for Negrê and a contributor to Growing Up African in Australia (Black Inc., 2019) and Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry (Sweatshop, 2021).
Raynen Bajette O’Keefe/Amos is an artist and writer, living and working on unceded Wangal Land. They hold a BA in Film Studies and inhabit the peripheries of dance, somatics, community work, digital media, film, and writing. They have participated in group shows and performances, and their writing-based work has recently been published with Mantissa Poetry Review, The Emerging Writers’ Festival, Scum, Red Room Poetry, Dancehouse Diary, and others.
Josephine Mead is a visual artist, curator & writer, residing on Wurundjeri woi-wurrung Country. She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. Her recent work has positioned female family members as support-structures, considered the body as a site of discursive practice, explored notions of deep listening & examined the temporal and sonic nature of writing and photography.
She has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, in Australia and abroad. She has undertaken residency programs in rural Victoria (The Macfarlane Fund), Mexico (Arquetopia Foundation), Portugal (Córtex Frontal), Turkey (Tasarim Bakkali TAB) and Germany (ZK/U). She was an inaugural Room to Create studio artist at Collingwood Yards, is Chair of Artistic Directors for Blindside Gallery, co-founder of Co- Publishing (with Christine McFetridge), and Artistic Director of MILK Gallery.
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