Inhabiting Distances at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
Two poems from my second book The Architecture of Chance, as well as an excerpt from my as yet unpublished long poem 'Capital' , are featured in Anachoresis: Upon Inhabiting Distances , an anthology accompanying the Cyprus entry at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. The Cyprus Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia "addresses the spatial experiences that occur when inhabiting distances becomes a paradigm for the development of new socialities. The notion of anachoresis, as explicated by Roland Barthes in How to Live Together , denotes an abrupt departure into spaces of atypical and idiorrhythmic manifestations of cohabitation." I was pleased and honoured to be informed that The Architecture of Chance - and in particular the poems 'Territorial' and 'public-private' (composed in collaboration with James Wilkes) as well as the title poem - formed a key reference text during the curators' discussi