A pavilion curated by Anne Murray.
Cloud 9 Pavilion Part 1
The expression 'you are on Cloud 9' has been used to imply the incredible state of happiness of new love, while also implying 'you have your head in the clouds' meaning you are living in an impossible world positivity. Here artists use their critical vision, imagination, and curiosity to strive for something unimaginable and to shed new light on past, present, and future realities related to love, politics, and society.
Cloud 9 Pavilion Part 1
The expression 'you are on Cloud 9' has been used to imply the incredible state of happiness of new love, while also implying 'you have your head in the clouds' meaning you are living in an impossible world positivity. Here artists use their critical vision, imagination, and curiosity to strive for something unimaginable and to shed new light on past, present, and future realities related to love, politics, and society.
Coming soon: Bangkok Biennial Cloud 9 Pavilion Part 2: Murmurations
Now: Ekphrastic Fantastic: OPEN CALL
OPEN CALL for poetry: All languages accepted. They must be ekphrastic, which means the poems connect with a specific art work from Cloud 9 Pavilion. http://cloud9pavilion.weebly.com
Write to curator Anne Murray at cloud9pavilionartists@gmail.com for questions and to submit poems.
This is part of the upcoming Versopolis Festival of Hope Part 2
I am looking forward to reading your work.
Write to curator Anne Murray at cloud9pavilionartists@gmail.com for questions and to submit poems.
This is part of the upcoming Versopolis Festival of Hope Part 2
I am looking forward to reading your work.
سحاب... ...Cloud
Official song for the Cloud 9 Pavilion Bangkok Biennial by Hamza Bourezg
Algerian composer and musician Hamza Bourezg lives and works in Laghouat, Algeria. Laghouat is at the edge of the Saharan Atlas Mountain range and the Sahara Desert: an oasis.
Bourezg has performed in many places in Algeria including several times as an invited artist at the Raconte Arts Festival in the high mountains of Kabylie.
He wrote this piece inspired by clouds and the artists in the pavilion. His finger work reflects the subtle movement of the clouds, the embrace of air, light, and water that form a continuum in the sky, at once a cloud, then a mist, and rain again.
Hamza Bourezg on Soundcloud and YouTube
Bourezg has performed in many places in Algeria including several times as an invited artist at the Raconte Arts Festival in the high mountains of Kabylie.
He wrote this piece inspired by clouds and the artists in the pavilion. His finger work reflects the subtle movement of the clouds, the embrace of air, light, and water that form a continuum in the sky, at once a cloud, then a mist, and rain again.
Hamza Bourezg on Soundcloud and YouTube
Postcards from Cloud 9, Inaugural Poem by Holly Crawford
a fuzzy patch, a starting
a point, one and more
contextually cloud-hopping above
soaring, renewing shifting
becoming, in the afternoon
becoming cloud-seeders,
man, woman, human
and animal muses, solace
through postmodern lens
structured, fractured and more,
a starting point slightly irregular,
fragile, and new
a possible troubled landscape, a
cyborg picnic, welcoming
contradictions, a starting point
cutting time, surprising me but
but the words hurt
becoming, becoming more
white chalk and black paper
unlearn, dematerialize
navigate, histories erased
memories, the voices of the sea
is/are about hard
to keep up perhaps, harsh leftovers
fractured schemes and questions,
surprise me, merging
layers of translucent cuts
white, intense, fragile, nouvelle en place
folded diagonally, a geometry
of broken hearts
soaring into misty morning
skies becoming open,
a postcard, I imagine you
reading this in the afternoon
a starting point
--Holly Crawford, 10/11/2020
Written as site specific text on request of Anne Murray curator of Cloud 9 Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial 2020
a point, one and more
contextually cloud-hopping above
soaring, renewing shifting
becoming, in the afternoon
becoming cloud-seeders,
man, woman, human
and animal muses, solace
through postmodern lens
structured, fractured and more,
a starting point slightly irregular,
fragile, and new
a possible troubled landscape, a
cyborg picnic, welcoming
contradictions, a starting point
cutting time, surprising me but
but the words hurt
becoming, becoming more
white chalk and black paper
unlearn, dematerialize
navigate, histories erased
memories, the voices of the sea
is/are about hard
to keep up perhaps, harsh leftovers
fractured schemes and questions,
surprise me, merging
layers of translucent cuts
white, intense, fragile, nouvelle en place
folded diagonally, a geometry
of broken hearts
soaring into misty morning
skies becoming open,
a postcard, I imagine you
reading this in the afternoon
a starting point
--Holly Crawford, 10/11/2020
Written as site specific text on request of Anne Murray curator of Cloud 9 Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial 2020
