The Beacon
digital poetry. site-specific sculpture. performance art.
The Beacon is a Tent. A temporary base that allows a poet to inhabit a place, hosting people and hearing their stories. The Beacon is a Poem. With site as source-material, a poet uses custom software to compose lines of verse that link and re-link dynamically in real-time. The Beacon is a Performance. An ever-changing exercise in forms of spontaneous, site-specific, community-based writing. The Beacon is a Journey. A way of involving whole communities in collective creation, radiating words out...