The Enemies project 2015: a year in review
The Enemies project is about literary and avant-garde poetry, in collaboration – across the arts, across languages & nations, across form, style & content – a multifarious, multidisciplinary but essentially cogent program of events, exhibitions, tours & publications that provide the grounding to comprehensively explore the notion of collaboration in a contemporary, active, innovative realm of poetry.
In 2015 the project, curated by 3am poetry editor SJ Fowler, organised 45 events with over 180 poets and artists. Below are a sample of the performances presented by the Enemies Project across 2015. Click on the title to see all the works that took place at each event.
Kakania at the Austrian Cultural Forum
Wrogowie: a Polish Enemies project
Enemigos: a Mexican Enemies project
Feinde: an Austrian Enemies project
Gelynion: a Welsh Enemies project
UNESCO European Literature Night: Edinburgh
Mahu: an exhibition of writing
Pugilistica: celebrating boxing literature
Nemici: an Italian Enemies project
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Enemies Project, curated by SJ Fowler, is about the possibilities of poetry in collaboration. Poetry lends itself to collaboration as language does conversation, and it is in poetry we are renovating the living space of communication, and this in itself is a collaborative act. The poet comes up against something other than themselves in the writing of every poem, and in the shaping of every fragment of language there is a response taking place. This project is aims to bring about and showcase original, dynamic examples of what is produced when the other in question is the equally avid mind of another artist / poet. Since its inception in 2011 it has curated over 200 events, 11 exhibitions, in 19 nations, involving over 500 poets, writers, artists, photographers and sculptors from across the globe.
First published in 3:AM Magazine: Saturday, December 19th, 2015.
