[the moment where the evidence is] this catapult stress entry-point as stitch, as flutter heartbeat and fingerprinting fiasco as handle as conductor as pivot as machine as line as such I brackets the length of corridor, a written conversation transcribed — — for spatialisation to braid interloper sun into silhouettes, a graphic language or bid for some share of these [neon geometries] the joint design loosening I attends the grace instruction action/beforemath facing down the document aftermath to trace any intersection of mark, mobility or passable other however fragile letting flutter-flutter to give [record] to take
Notes "Exchange Values #1-3" were written as part of a three-week, collaborative artist residency with Rachel Zolf, hosted by the Department of Micro-Poetics at the AC Institute in New York City, that explored a variety of exchanges and mappings — ekphrastic, dialogic, technological — in addition to embodying some of the challenges and creative loopholes of distance collaboration. Each week, I wrote on-site in the middle of the gallery's exhibition Exchange Value; at the end of each writing session I forwarded an ekphrastic poem to Zolf. Zolf then identified a set of search terms in my poem and used these to generate a new response via her work in progress The Tolerance Project — a collaborative MFA in Creative Writing rooted in an online archive of “poetic DNA” traces donated by 86 writers, artists and thinkers. Zolfʼs poetic permutation then served as the starting point for my next session in the gallery, and so on — for three sessions. In 2011, our full sequence of poems was then published in the “The Mapping Issue (37.1)” of Dandelion Magazine.