Macha Press: AGGREGATE INVENTIONS

Máighréad Medbh will perform ‘Faces for Kate’, a conceptual piece from her most recent book, Dwelling. Dwelling is a transhistorical, multi-genre exploration pivoted on a 1913 photograph of the poet’s great-grandmother. ‘Faces for Kate’ engages with various historical events and images, and ironizes AI technology.

‘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).

Christodoulos Makris has published five books of poetry, as well as several limited-edition pamphlets, artists’ books, digital projects, audiovisual works and other poetry objects. Recent awards include a Curatorial Commission from Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), Dublin, and an Artist Residency at Irish Arts Center, New York. He is the poetry editor at gorse.

Máighréad Medbh is a poet, essayist, and performer, interested in historical and conceptual explorations. She has published ten books, including a poetic narrative of the Irish Famine and an ecological allegory, Parvit of Agelast, shortlisted for the 2017 Pigott Prize. She has collaborated on award-winning art films, written for radio, and has three online novels.

Macha Press is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland.

Event Venue

Glass Box Gallery, Belfast School of Art, 25-51 York Street, Belfast, United Kingdom

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