Cris Cheek Live
Feb 11, 2010
Co-Presented with University of Washington Bothell
Cris Cheek is a sound artist, poet, photographer, mixed-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer. He will perform an evening of “live writing” or “performance writing” works for sound, text and video. Cheek writes that he “projects video about writing and gets in the way of his projections, tries to read the writing, toys with and enacts ideas of trying to read what we might be seeing and changes what is seen by doing so.” His work, indebted to the history of sound poetry, is highly improvisational and ephemeral.
One of the works he will be presenting, the video-text-performance piece “monday morning quarterbacking ‘on’ and ‘off’ gods commons,” has appeared on many “best-of” 2009 lists for experimental poetics. He will also be presenting other short videos, live sound pieces and readings from his acclaimed new book “part: short life housing” (The Gig, Toronto, 2009).
