4th Annual Midwest Video Poetry Festival preview

This Saturday and Sunday Arts + Literature Laboratory (ALL) in Madison is hosting the fourth annual Midwest Video Poetry Festival. ALL is collaborating with Woodland Pattern to also bring the festival to Milwaukee. We kick off today’s show with a two artists participating in Night 1: Poet Dana Maya and video artist Aaron Granat.  

Then we talk with ALL’s Managing Director Genia Daniels about what to expect at the video poetry festival.  Midwest Video Poetry Festival will kick-off with the Night 1 screening on Saturday, October 14th at 7pm. Night 2 will be on Sunday at the same time.

The Racist Bone by Cornelius Eady was played during this program with permission. That video poem will be featured on Night 1. We also played some of Aaron Granat’s work, which can been seen here. 

Dana Maya is a poet, essayist, editor, and teacher. She was born and lives in the Mexican diaspora. She descends from a line of single Mexican mothers and has a background in Chicanx, Queer, & Race Studies. She has taught literature and writing at UT Austin and Madison College, as well as at public schools and community organizations. Dana collaborates with artists on multimedia projects, often for social change, facilitates ekphrastic poetry happenings, & is a member of the Spontaneous Writing Booth Collective. Her poems and essays have garnered awards & appear in anthologies, journals, buses, stages, museums, memorial sites, & other public spaces. 

Aaron Granat is a video artist, cinematographer, editor, and teacher of media production. Spanning live, multi-media performance, documentary, screen dance, experimental, and dramatic narrative, his work has been exhibited in museums, film festivals across the world, music venues large and small, planetariums, and billboards in city centers. Unbound by traditional forms and structures, Aaron seeks the interdisciplinary merging of practices, aestheticizing the creative process and the phenomena of reality in thought-provoking ways.

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