18-20.
n/ Two brains on a bench broadcast by accident. Wires cross, languages echo writing, static as a form of listening. A visual libretto pulled like yellow ribbon from a box. Choosing material at a distance. A headspace to fashion a collaged arena sized opera. Unexpected challenges derange and demure in darkness. Machines in the underbrush. Co-laboring among ruins.
c: There are processes and such that Nico and I are working with as we trade pieces back and forth, but what are you doing when your eyes or ears, or body circuitries, however manifested, land upon our work? Some of the material is adapted/adopted from (our own) other material: partially made or mostly unfinished or somewhat scraps — and re-shaped as sequences of visual/concrete/written comportment. Overall, it is a compilation that works within "opera", but maybe it is something else. Small pieces have shown up in SOME 11 (Vancouver), Utsanga (Italy).
Chris Turnbull is the author of cipher (Beautiful Outlaw Press 2024), [ untitled ] in own (CUE Books)—a collection of work by Turnbull, arawlings, and Heather Hermant, respectively—and Continua (Chaudiere Books/Invisible Press). Her most recent poetry chapbooks include parts path (drift/line 2025) and if/then (JackPine, 2025), a collection of interwoven poems by twelve poets from various countries. Additional writing, collaborations, installations and videopoems are in print, online, or within landscapes. She curates a footpress, rout/e, whereby poetry can be found on trails (www.etuor.wordpress.com).
Nico Vassilakis is a poet who writes and draws language on the visual unmooring of letters from their word position. He has published several books of poetry and text/art. Most recently WONDERMENTAL came out from Pulley Press. He has curated several international visual/concrete poetry exhibitions and currently lives in Greenville, IL with his wife and animals.
