Future Movement 2025 book project launches under the Artistic Directions of Kaye Mahoney. Poetry Sydney in collaboration withThai born Sydney based artist Kaye Mahoney are open for submissions for experimental interactive literature, poetry, hybrid and digital media compositions that correspond to this year’s Future Movement theme.

Kaye Mahoney’s 100 Telegrams (2020) as with telegrams used in the 20th century, were messages to be urgently delivered and received. For the project the Telegrams have been separated into three categories: PERSON / EARTH / THING; which operate as cues for poets and artists to correspond to.
Kaye Mahoney's 2020 Telegrams produced in limited edition 100 box sets [$900].

The project workshop will be in three parts that concludes with a participant poetry reading. Participants will then have time to create a corresponding work with submissions closing on Sunday, 31 August 2025.

PART 01 POETIC PROCESSES

Most of these processes start with an idea and the question “what if”. They give shape to being spontaneous, playing, being open to experimentation and seeking out multidimensional connections, patterns, rhythms and synergy. Kaye will share some poetic processes and strategies that she has employed in making art by referring to different art works as examples.

PART 02 APPLYING A POETIC PROCESS

Kaye has created a PERSON EARTH THING event score aimed at getting a collective poetic response to a Telegram. The score is a set of instructions that prescribe how participants will collaborate to create a poem. This is a social experiment with a tangible manifestation of the interaction between predetermination [the score] and chance / the random [the selection and input of participants who interpret and carry out the score].

PART 03 POETRY PERFORMANCE, DRINKS + REFRESHMENTS

Participants will have the opportunity to share their poetry.

About Kaye Mahoney

Kaye Mahoney is a Thai born Australian American conceptual artist. Her wide-ranging expressive tools include video, installations, painting, text, assemblage and music. Many of her works are conceived as platforms for experimentation and interaction or reflect the influence of 1960’s Fluxus movement. In her early years, after completing an MFA program at the New York Academy of Art, Mahoney trained in Italy and practiced as a muralist specializing in fresco. Mid-career, she was represented by Dillon Gallery in Chelsea New York and exhibited regularly in France and Italy. Since moving to Australia, Mahoney’s shows have included major solo exhibitions at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, solo exhibitions in Sydney at Art Atrium and a show at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York. Mahoney maintains studios in Sydney and France and is represented by Art Atrium and Art Atrium 48.

Her work has been reviewed in Italy (Corriere di Sienna/ La Republica Delle Donne), United States (Miami/Newark Star Ledger), Australia (Canberra Times/ Art in Australia/ Midland Express/ Goulburn Post).
Kaye Mahoney, Writing on the Wall exhibition, Art Atrium [3 - 17 May 2025]. To find out more about the artist please visit: https://artatrium.com.au/48/kaye-mahoney
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The Future Movement project seeks new discussion and new work of an emotional intensity that reimagines past, present and projected future into something new, and then something newer.

Future Movement: lead life to the limit of what it can do (2024), marked the centennial of the origins of Surrealism with the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto in October 1924. This is the second project, the first was partnered with gaffa Gallery, and included a series of engagements: a panel discussion, workshop, street performances and a limited edition printed book.

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