A Taste Of Space presented a site specific response to the Stour Space and the people that occupy it.

L I V E T Y P E was an installation piece of sound, movement and spoken word that built over the course of three days and two nights – revealing the space in a quiet but impactful way.

On Tuesday 24th July A Taste Of Space and Poetika invited the public to L I V E T Y P E to watch performances from Ana Vicent, Lorie Jo Trainor Buckingham and Kat Wallace and site specific poetry from the Poetika collective (Including Ariel Silverman).

Below are a couple of the poems written by Ariel

1

A man leans on a girder

The girder does not respond

Most Likely because it is a girder

On the other side of the room, two humans nod politely at each other

Most likely because they are in England

But

As they talk

They relax

Like wax

In the heat

Gestures fall slow

Crossed arms become crinkled eyes

Become something I can’t quite put into words

But it is comforting to look at

The man walks away from the girder

And the building seems to exhale in the breeze and say

“You’re welcome”

2

“No Graffiti please Thx”

Whispers a sign outside

And so, with no words, the walls must hum instead,

Reverberate with lives half empty, half full, brimming over, simultaneously full and empty

Like bathtubs at the bottom of the canal.

Still and silent and underneath and invisible but taking space still and silent like people on their laptops with noise inside their skull so big that their fingers can’t stop like a tap dancer’s feet on keyboards making words so small about noises so big I want

To fall silent

Fall sick

And explode

But instead the man with the hair types and the woman with the piercing gestures

Big, she gestures like she’s reaching for

Dandelion seeds tumble softly like dancing, like air

I’m jealous of that man’s moustache

The people round here

Are very pretty