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Aggregate Inventions at Belfast School of Art

On Thursday 28 May I will be at Belfast School of Art in the centre of Belfast where I will deliver a multimedia performance based on my new long poem 'The Ugly Truth'. This performance will take place in the street-facing Glass Box Gallery at 6pm, and it is programmed as part of a two-poet event with title 'Aggregate Inventions', also featuring Máighréad Medbh.

Presented by Macha Press in partnership with Belfast School of Art, 'Aggregate Inventions' is a combined experimental poetry/art event commissioned by Natasha Cuddington of Macha Press and Chérie Driver, Deputy Head of Belfast School of Art, and devised in collaboration between myself and Máighréad Medbh.


From the event publicity:

Join Máighréad Medbh and Christodoulos Makris for what is sure to be a one-of-a-kind evening of poetry and art performances.

‘The Ugly Truth’, by Christodoulos Makris, is one of four long poems constituting a new book-length work with title nobody is going to be unique: an intuition-led, hybrid-form engagement with the impact of the accelerated use of machine intelligence on human creativity, endeavour, identity, and – particularly in ‘The Ugly Truth’ – corporeality (war, sex, climate etc).

For more information, and to reserve a free place, see here.

Macha Press is a cross-border Irish press founded in 2024 by seven poets, each with manifold areas of practice. All members of the editorial collective are based on the island of Ireland, and "each has a visionary reach that is integral to the international and trans-generational character of Macha ... At Macha, we work as a collective endeavour and actively challenge dichotomous and binary modes of thinking."

The Belfast School of Art is "the largest art and design facility on the island of Ireland, hosting a wide range of disciplines across the fine and applied arts, design and screen-based subject such as games and animation. The School has been the region's main provider of art and design education for 175 years."

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