Spoems 2007

This is an interactive installation based on a series of poems written by Esslinger from email spam that she collected during the spring of 2006. Although spamming tactics and syntax change frequently, during this period the words were disconnected yet related lists, lacking the sinews that bind traditional narratives.  With as little manipulation as possible she has woven new narratives, leaving in the absurd jumps in subject and embracing odd phrasing.  SPoems’s visual projection presents original spam content, gathered and arranged.  The audio portion features actors reading the poems.  Walking across the projection, viewers control the speed of the voice and image. 

Readers: Jon Tazewell, Liesel Schmidt, Ted Hornick , Claudia Esslinger