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In 1974, Georges Perec spent three days in "an attempt to exhaust a place in Paris," making lists that described the activities unfolding around him as he sat in a cafe watching the world pass by. In some ways the idea behind the project is more interesting than the actual writing - the proposition that the nuances of a street corner could indeed be exhausted, or the possibility that in this case Perec exhausted himself before really doing justice to the initial idea. Poems for a street corner gestures towards the complexity of the street as a site for poetic engagement, asking artists to engage in their own creative ways with the possibilities - real or imagined - carried by any given spot on the street. Participants were asked to select a site on the street where the Art of the City Street Fest will be taking place and to use that location as a starting point for a poem and a short video. The videos were made accessible to viewers at the sites chosen by the artists - using a QR code trigger that quickly let the audience bring up the videos on their phones.

Curated by Ted Hiebert & Kat Seidemann

Featuring the work of: Breka Blakeslee, John Boucher, Laura Burgher & Tracy Gregory, Ellen Donnelly, Talena Lachelle Queen, Lauren Light, Kat Seidemann, Travis A Sharp, September Thorlin, and Matt Trease.

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