Sara Rivera
Albuquerque, New Mexico
“NERVELESS” | Interactive Installation
A site-specific poetry installation based on D.H. Lawrence's "Autumn at Taos," "Nerveless" seeks to unite Taos's literary culture with a visual language of place. The text of my poem, "Summer at Taos", will be crafted from found material, and the Taos community is invited to submit seasonal poetry as part of an interactive blog. Think about Taos's changing seasons. What are the atmospherics of place? Can we complete the tapestry that Lawrence began? Email poems to sdr.arts@gmail.com (no deadline). Poems will be posted seasonally at www.nervelesstaos.wordpress.com. Writers can tweet micro-poems using the hashtag #nervelesstaos.
About the artist: Sara D. Rivera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Albuquerque, now based in Boston. She holds a BFA in Art Studio and BA in English from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her practice includes sculpture, music, performance, poetry, and translation. She has worked as a collaborative teaching artist with the Urbano Project (Jamaica Plain, MA), and has exhibited at the Urbano Project, the Factory on 5th Art Space (Albuquerque), the TAN Gallery (Albuquerque), and worked with Gallery Benoit (Boston). Her poetry appears in the Loft Anthology, DIALOGIST, Origins Literary, and elsewhere.