fragments / poems written
for leaves in the stream by:

Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) (TM)
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker (KG)
Jessica Bradford (JB)
Annika Moses (AM)

INDEX

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to reiterate the tandem shimmers slightly                                                                                              AM      

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I wake up in the morning, make coffee and sweep the floor                                                                            TM
(我早上醒來 煮咖啡 掃地


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if I could cut water and share it like bread                                                                                                                 JB
                                                                                                        
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bilya holds memories and speaks resonance                                                                                                            KG
                                                                                           
in its mouth light rings bend and constellate                                                                                                           KG

ripples leave the stream to form permanent sound                                                                                                KG

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percussion every leaf                                                                                                                                                               JB

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kept me transfixed by proxy, or was it proximate to, the mouth                                                                      AM

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days line up neatly, for me to count them , husband them                                                                                    JB

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my cat is blind in one eye                                                                                                                                                     TM
(我的貓瞎了一隻眼)

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mind to rejoin the ocean                                                                                                                                                         JB

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each day I take four pills                                                                                                                                                       TM
(每天吃四顆藥)

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two exhales vaporise                                                                                                                                                               AM

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the fountain runs in tandem                                                                                                                                                 JB                                                           
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Tsai Ming-liang is a filmmaker based in Taipei. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films including The Wayward Cloud, The River, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Rebels of the Neon GodWhat Time is it There? and The Hole. Tsai’s films have received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion at the 51st Venice International Film Festival for the film Vive L’Amour and his work has recently been the subject of retrospectives at MoMA and Centre Pompidou.

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist with an interest in custodial approaches to data management, interrogating systems of surveillance, and using creative technology to explore coding as a liberatory practice. Kathryn’s creative practice explores the intersection of activism, futurism, and our relationship with machines. Their poetry has appeared in Cordite, Red Room Poetry, Running Dog, Best Australian Poems and their short stories have been published in various anthologies, including the blak speculative fiction anthology This All Come Back Now.

Jessica Bradford is a Singaporean-born and Sydney/Gadigal based artist, working across painting, ceramics, video and installation. Her work explores cultural inheritance, transculturation, memory and identity.

Annika Moses lives and makes on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo (Perth), so-called Australia. On this land she also likes to write, play, listen and sew. Annika's work has previously been commissioned by Liquid Architecture (Naarm) the National Gallery of Australia (Ngambri country), Sisters Akousmatica (Lutruwita), Tura and Decibel Ensemble.