Welcome to Art/TEXT

a collaborative exhibition space for students at Canberra Institute of Technology.

Art/TEXT was first established in 2009 when Creative Writing teacher Lorese Vera met with Art teachers Bernie Slater, Paul Murray, Silvia Velez and others, to form a collaboration between art and writing students. Images were exchanged for text and responded to and vice-a-versa and two very well received 'on the wall' exhibitions were held at the CIT Reid Campus during 2009.

For 2010, students will visit the blog and post text or images to be responded to as a part of their assessment tasks as an 'online exhibition'.It is hoped that the blog will take on a life of its own and text and images will be exchanged beyond the assessment tasks and will generate further collaborations and exhibitions.


COPYRIGHT

Please note all text and images on this blogspot are under copyright by the writer or artist and as such may not be copied or used for any purpose without the express permission of the artist/writer. To contact the writer or artist in the first instance contact the administrator lorese.vera@cit.act.edu.au

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Artist: Erica Watson

Untitled Artist Erica Watson, Writer, Hallie ec Bruce 2009

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She melted like wax
though alabaster, cast of ivory
reduced to cream one autumn night
a bolt of silk unfurled across the floor
porcelain dripping to milk
waiting for the cat to come lap her up
Hallie e c Bruce 2009

HOW TO RESPOND

Writing students are invited to add their text to the art images by posting a comment by clicking on 'comment' at the bottom of the image.

Art students are invited to add their image by going to 'comment' and adding an image. Please make sure you include your name.

Navigating Art/TEXT At the bottom of the page click on 'older posts' to go forward and 'newer posts' to go back, or select 'home'. You can also click on the 'blog archive' to go straight to a set of posts.

CIT students: Make sure your text has your name at the bottom AND your CIT number just in case the public use this blog ... you can respond to anyone you like but you MUST respond to a certain number of pieces as per your assessment task requirements.

Lorese

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Art/TEXT 2010 - 1

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 4, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    A forbidden birth

    At 19, with no partner in sight.
    Left alone in the mists of the Guerrilla warfare jungle.
    She bore a girl.
    Tears of joy and triumph filled her eyelids. With all her strength she rose to her feet. Moving forward....anywhere.....far away from the gun shots and gas that filled the air. She buried her baby into her chest....forward she thought....anywhere but here
    She continued.
    A sudden sound filled her ears. Her chest burns. Blood starts to flow from her chest down. Baby silent.
    She falls to her knees. Looks up at the stars as she thought.....anywhere but here!

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  2. isaacMay 4, 2010 at 10:36 PM

    unsettled

    I am abandoned, unhomed
    although there is much land, it is barren
    it breakes things down and decomposes them
    it returns people to their origin
    one cannot live here, only decay
    I will not return, I will find a place
    I will make my way up
    I will find a place where we can live
    away from this festering, acidic landscape
    where our energy is extracted
    that leaves us hollow and depleted
    I will find a way to nourish the people
    and their need will sustain me
    my stomach is so empty the people could move there and start a new settlement

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