A cross-fertilization. Text and image mutate and relay. The mouth, hungry with the giving, reveals fingertip shadows of gestural articulation. The bee as trace and carrier, transmitter of memory clutched and crouched in the bridge of liquid light - immutable and fluid. We are connected! Lines of flight extend and circulate from actual body space, interface and return. Desire is projected, triggered, accessible. The bee dances and weaves in unseen complexity and is disseminator of codes through dusty pollen. Storehouse metaphors bridge spatial/temporal boundaries and eternity is revived. From the borders of Illuminated Manuscripts, the bee as memory promptor escapes enclosure; is secreted into digital display. In the margins the frayed brocades the assembling. Acceleration of synaptic fugues echo in patterns enmeshed in Honeyed receptors. Wax seals and protects, conceals and envelopes paper thin through chicken wire seen. Something invades and then escapes "when the mouth was loosened ..." the sticky thread weaves pentagonal connectors; thickly clots the palette of enfolding lids. The body's yawn amorphous and intense revealed in the petals yearning.

Lights illumination of smoky sullen moon. Her face, distant and obscure remote from our knowing; ruptures and tears into being through temporal transparencies. The poetic arcs! Lights distance sparks cracks. Actual - virtual surviving simulacra. Floating cells scrutinize function - transcription occurs in the embrace of mouth and eye. Sucrose sweet in the dripping. Life and energy prevails in the burning aura of vulvic flair in amber sky. The unfamiliar tongue rekindles absent edge. Fluidity remade. Engaged.

Velocity demands response, but the poetic escapes into mutation. Text is readily altered, modified and trans-formed within the matrix Slippage occurs in the effacement or remaking of ideas which are transmitted and sometimes lost but are spontaneously returned.

Working with metaphor, this collaboration between poet/performer Jacinta LePlaistrier and artists Moira Corby and Heather Fernon will explore theatrical and sculptural space, sound, text and performance. Jacinta LePlaistrier's poem Pollination will be extended as written and dramatised word in conjunction with contemporary music, computer generated imagery and form.

Pollination

Moira Corby, Jacinta LePlaistrier and Heather Fernon

11-29 May 1994

Linden Gallery, St Kilda

© Julie Clarke 1994. MESH #3 Autumn 1994. MESH film/video/media/art is published by Experimenta Media Arts