EUPHEMISMS FOR THE INTIMATE ENEMY

Ruark Lewis and Rainer Linz

NUIT BLANCHE            7pm – 7am October 4-5

corner of Mowat Avenue & Liberty Street, Toronto

Euphemisms for The Intimate Enemy is a poetic intervention within a rapidly changing post-industrial environment: a wall of 550 brightly coloured oil drums. The prophetic inscription is a people’s poem that addresses our future on the planet. The poem cycle and the antiphonal sound work performs a kind of night airs in this concrete urban space – a soft rising falling pitch and gliding sound that cradles the spoken word, the intoned phrasing that dramatically reflects – a pathology of our times. This integrated sound work and concrete poem has been designed to slowly evolve during the 12 hour dusk-dawn cycle of the night.

Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy is a collaborative work with sound composer Rainer Linz and language artist Ruark Lewis. The Intimate Enemy is inspired by the writings of the Indian post-colonial writer Ashis Nandy. We attempt to form a relationship of the ideas and thought in the form of a poem cycle in a sound environment that will play for the entire duration of the Nuit Blanche Festival. Curated by Haema Sivanesan

Ruark Lewis is a Sydney language artist and writer.

Rainer Linz is a Melbourne composer sound artist and publisher.

http://www.rainerlinz.net/

http://www.ruarklewis.com