Bunker Rulz 2: Battle sorrow. Our addiction to competition ignores the true cost of modern life. The Colony demands we must compete with everything to survive.
In the race to survive and succeed we believe we can’t afford to experience sorrow, to feel collective pain, to imagine the screams of burning koalas, the muffled despair of people trapped in abuse, locked up, homeless, worked to the bone in meaningless jobs. We fear we will break down, give up, go mad.
Who defines insanity in a culture that fears sorrow?
Who benefits from a competitive culture? How do we reveal that our self-interests continue to trump collective well-being? How do we avoid competitive grieving? How do we acknowledge our sorrows and re-imagine life?
How do we re-enchant our shared existence?
Roll Call
Roll Call is a collaborative lament exploring how our desire to win is fuelling our demise. It is a poetry multi-media installation that reveals how supremacy thinking manipulates our grief and colonizes our minds. This multi-media eulogy offers keys to global solidarity and climate justice.
Provocateurs corner: We see poets as the witch-philosophers of our world, who weave spells that move beyond guilt and blame, howling against the extermination of life due to the wonders of civilization. As our competitive culture keeps us on track to maintain ecological collapse, we suppress the sorrow for our collective failure to protect the well-being and interdependence of all living things. And yet, as long as we still breathe it is never too late to sing.
Join the resistance: Notice your compliance. Disrupt our status quo. Rewrite the rules. And click here to submit your poetry.
Creative concept, development and curators: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
Facilitators: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell, Mike Riddle and Nigel Ford
Poets: Find the anthology of 50 selected poems from 23 poets here.
Geoffrey Aitken
Nick Carroll
David Cookson
Donna Edwards
Nigel Ford
Rory Harris
Kym Holly
Stephen House
In Her Interior
Emilijia Kasumovic
Helen Kelly
Carl Kuddell
Niyati Libotte
Lyn Lovegrove Niemz
Jen Lyons-Reid
Johanis Lyons-Reid
Wallace McKitrick
Kathryn Pentecost
Avalanche Rehorek
Mike Riddle
Clyde Rigney Jnr
Heather Taylor-Johnson
Cedric Varcoe
Doll Yoko
Provocations, text and cartoons: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
Video and photos: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
Venues: Coral St Art Space Victor Harbor. You can spot some of the poetry across all our venues. Selected poems will be published in the _this breath anthology and on this site.