URBAN FRAGMENTS
ABOUT
Urban Fragments is poetry spread among more than 20 million inhabitants with memories of dry winters and humid summers mixed with the essence of stinky tofu. Words that ride down the street on their orange shared bikes, trying not to bump into the Mercedes blocking the hutong or the old man with his recycling coming down the wrong side of the street.
Stanzas that come alive in a Didi driver's spit or in the crackle of the fires at the intersections while a feeling of displacement and insignificance is conjured by the sight of mega buildings drowning in fog.
“城市碎片”是Spittoon旗下的一次诗歌+音乐+艺术的主题活动。我们的诗行与词语，来自无处不在的记忆碎片,来自北京这个二千多万人生活的超级城市：干燥的冬季，湿漉漉的夏天，空气中飘过的一丝臭豆腐气息；骑着黄色共享单车穿行于大街小巷，又要小心避开挡在巷口的奔驰豪车，或者捡破烂的老人，或者滴滴司机偶尔吐出的一口痰液；而清明时节在路口焚烧的一堆冥币，雾霾中隐约可见的摩天大楼，又让你突生一种身处异地、无可奈何的感觉，如此等等，种种挥之不去的复杂思绪......12月14日，在凹凸空间，诗人萨拉，将携手音乐人朱利安，以及视觉艺术家妮娜，共同为你打造一场有关城市的迷幻世界......
“Under the Skin of the City—Urban Fragments” is a project coordinated by Sara F. Costa for Spittoon Megacity Literary Festival, featuring poetry written by the “poets of Beijing”, a cyber soundscape by Julian and an experimental video by Nina Diana Dillenz.
Sara F. Costa 负责诗歌的遴选
声音制作 Julian
视觉设计 Nina Dillenz
Contributing poets: Ana Padilla Fornieles; Chris Nash; David Huntington; Edward Ragg; Jenny Rowe; Jiarong Chen; Jonathan Chan; Lebogang Lebese; Michael Burton; Nancy Fowlkes; Pieter Velghe; Sara F. Costa; Simon Shieh; Tara Doolabh; Wenfeng Tong