Mark Allen

I went to see Mark Allen's lecture on Wednesday. It was mostly about the work going on @ Machine project, which is his alternative space. The piece that I was most interested in was an interactive poetry reading. At Machine Project, they created a space under the floorboards where two poets were, and in the middle of the floorboards was a cone-shaped listening device which one of the viewers would write a word on a slip of paper and slip it through the floorboards. The poets then came up with a poem and read it into the cone, however the viewer would have to physically lay down on the floor to listen to it. Looking at the photos of it was amazing and halarious! : )