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(photography courtesy of Michael Meyers)


Stephen Ratcliffe


human/nature, recorded at UC Davis, June 6, 2008

cast: Dylan Bolles, Keith Evans, Michael Meyers, Stephen Ratcliffe, Edward Schocker, Zachary Watkins, and others

Part 1 (3:22:47): MP3
Part 2 (2:57:57): MP3
Part 3 (3:01:14): MP3
Part 4 (3:00:22): MP3

human/nature, which explores collaborative work in a variety of mediums, is based on Stephen Ratcliffe's 1,000 page poem, written in 1,000 consecutive days between 10.19.02 - 7.14.05. The performance extends his investigations into the integration/interaction of human beings and natural landscape: "the relation between things seen/observed in the natural world and how such things might be made (transcribed/transformed) as works of written (or visual) art." The reading of the poem will accompany sound, light, movement and sculpture in an open dialogue with the architecture of the surrounding space. Audience will be free to move between an activated courtyard area and a more focused interior environment, creating a dialogue between reception, memory and stimulus.

(see the flyer announcing the event here)

(see more photos of the event, by Michael Meyers: 1   2   3   4   5)



Reading at the Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, October 18, 2008

complete reading (14:35): MP3



Reading in San Diego, 1999

complete reading (32:57): Real Audio


Reading at the Central Park Grill, Buffalo, NY, March 19, 1991
Complete Reading (31:25): MP3



Reading at the Point Éphémere, Paris, April 8, 2008





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