During my stay in the NART Artist Residence in Narva I’ve developed a new project, Situated Poetics of Narva, that builds on my ongoing research into augmented reality poetry. My goal is to develop a community-co-created series of situated AR poems about life in Narva, on the border of Russia and NATO. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges, where she critiques the notion of a single, objective truth and proposes instead a model of “situated,” plural, and accountable knowledge, AR poems are designed to hold multiple layers of perceived reality.
Watch the Poems on location using the AR Viewer
You can view all the poems on location in Narva using the AR poetry viewer: https://arpoetry.bkuipers.nl/
AR poems are works of poetry with a layer of augmented reality that alters the meaning of the text. A poem, projected on a wall, or printed in a book, or displayed on a screen, can be viewed through a device, and blanks left in the original text are filled in, thus altering the text, and – more importantly – the meaning of the poem. This way, an AR poem is able to accommodate a plurality of perspectives in a single experience.
In co-creating AR poems I hope to spark conversation and debate, and come to a poetic consensus in polarized times.
The project is developed in the NART Artist Residence in Narva.
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Kreenholm
Kreenholm crumbling giantgreen island, red withrust, with buttercups, and waterfalls, slowdripping,all chokedup. Kreenholm crumbling giantSlavs, enslaved,dust-up lungs, man’sreinvention as machinea mother that will beat you up. Background For well over 150 years, from 1857 to 2010, Kreenholm was a gigantic textile factory in Narva. Over the decades, Kreenholm survived wars, strikes, regime changes, dwindling economic…