one morning at the end of June in a bus between Ostrowce and Bydgoszcz an idea was born from sparkling climate of creativity during This Earth is a Flower, the seventh edition of that great art project which is Construction in Process - the energy, sensitivity, obstinacy of Doron Polak by chance sitting next to me asking me what were I doing there - seven flags dedicated to seven disappeared poets/artists who were assential to my evolution - why don`t we do a big exhibition of banners created by artists and poets from all over the world on the street in Venezia, Doron immediately suggested - this is the way the Markers project was born - a signal to get beyond linguistic and national barriers - cultural and religious differences - a practical demonstraction that it`s possible to cooperate in creating one work without personalism and without altering one`s own work - a banner is a sign - a sign communicates - poetry communicates - the movement of air spreads the message - this is the principle of votive flags - of mantras spread by the wind into space - if, as William Burrougs says, the future of writing is in space not time, these banners will bring their message into air and space - the tribes of poets and artists gather, multiform but unitary, with the desire to propagate an idea of possible coexistence on our planet - of maintaining differences inside unity, which is characteristic of our human condition - each one with one`s own colours - each one with one`s own language - each intervention says that words still have power , meaning, if we are able to find it - to let it flow free and meet other sound and light waves - new impalpable but solid messages will arise from this occasion - like this project coursing up a street and peopled by that people passing by and watching - banners and movement - the banners live on this reciprocity - it`s not static work nor petrified word - everybody knows this contrast in a city of stone and moving water - poetry is word in motion - motion creates energy...
Banners on Garibaldi Street
Artists, Writers & Poets:
Mahmoud Abu, Poet, Palestine | Humberto Ak`Abal, Poet, Guatemala | Maria Teresa Alves, Artist, Brazil | Asumka, Aboriginal Artist, Australia | Damian Aquiles, Artist, Cuba | Siarzuk Babareka, Artist, Belarus | Waldo Balart, Artist, Cuba | Tova Beck-Friedman, Artist, USA | Stefan Becker, Artist, Germany | Menachem Ben, Poet, Israel | Barbara Benish, Artist, Czech Republic | Elena Berriolo, Artist, Italy | Tom Bills, Artist, USA | Dara Birnbaum, Artist, USA | Julien Blaine, Artist, France | Hartmut Bohm, Artist, Germany | Malgorzata Borek, Artist, Poland | Monika Brandmeier, Artist, Garmany | Terry Buchholz, Artist, Germany | Jen Budney, Writer, Canada | Joerg Burkhardt, Writer, Germany | Franco Cajani, Poet, Italy | Mimmo Catania, Artist, Italy | Tracey Ceurvels, Writer, USA | Lo Ch`ing, Artist&Poet, Taiwan | S. Chandrasekaran, Artist, Singapore | Yaacov Chefetz, Artist, Israel | Yu-Chi-Hwan, Poet, Korea | Henning Christiansen, Artist, Denmark | Mara Cini, Poet, Italy | Charlie Citron, Artist, USA-Holland | Thomas Clark, Poet, England | Mark Daniel Cohen, Writer, USA | Mirit Cohen Caspi, Artist, Israel | Amir Cohen, Artist, Israel | Papo Colo, Artist&Poet, USA | Bruno Cora, Poet, Italy | ,b>Gianni Curreli, Artist, Italy | Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Artist, USA | Uri De Beer, Artist, Israel | Rita Degli Esposti, Poet, Italy | Claudia DeMonte, Artist, USA | Agnes Denes, Artist, USA | Aoife Desmond, Artist, Ireland | Joel Mpah Dooh, Artist, Cameroon | Barbara Dorffler, Artist, Germany | Uri Dotan, Artist, Israel | Peter Downsbrough, Artist, USA | Ruprecht Dreher, Artist, Germany | Esti Drori, Artist, Israel | Jimmie Durham, Writer&Artist | Barbara Edelstein, Artist, USA | Frank Kirk Ehm-Marks, Poet, Germany | Maria Eichhorn, Artist, Germany | Avraham Eilat, Artist, Israel | Aziz Elhihi, Artist, Morocco | Jan Fabre, Artist, Belgium | Jens Faenge, Artist, Sweden | Emilio Fantin, Artist, Italy | Dorit Feldman, Artist, Israel |v Tomer Ganhiar, Artist, Israel | Gideon Gechtman, Artist, Israel | Jarg Geismar, Artist, Germany | Ilan Gelber, Artist, Israel | Varda Ghivoly, Artist, Israel | John Gian, Poet, Italy | Allen Ginsberg, Poet, USA | Francesco Giusti, Poet, Italy | Leon Golub, Artist, USA | Coco Gordon, Artist, USA | Eugenia Gortchakova, Artist, Russia | Lorenna Grant, Artist, Australia | Angel Guinda, Poet, Spain | Alessandra Guola, Artist, Venice, Italy | Newton Harrison, Artist, USA | Tadashi Hashimoto, Artist, Japan | Marikke Heinz-Hoek, Artist, Germany | Rachel Heller, Artist, Israel | Anselm Hollo, Poet, Finland | Harry Hoogstraten, Artist, Holland | Irina Horbachova, Poet, Belarus | Stefan Hyner, Poet, Germany | Pamela Jaskowiak, Poet, Sweden | Zeljko Jerman, Artist, Croatia | Randy Jewart, Artist, USA | Cisco Jimenez, Artist, Mexico | Vera Jirousova, Poet, Czech Republic | Mary Judge, Artist, USA | Liliana Kadichevski. Artist, Israel | Dani Karavan, Artist, Israel | Tamar Karavan, Artist, Israel | Laszlo Kerekes, Artist, Yugoslavian Vojvodina |v Sooja Kim, Artist, Korea | Adam Klimczak, Artist, Poland | Lucretia Knapp, Artist, USA | Koko Komegne, Artist, Cameroon | Igor Kopystiansky, Artist, Ukraine | Svetlana Kopystiansky, Artist, Russia | Tom Kotik, Artist, Czech Republic | Zsoit Kovacs, Poet, Hungary | Karen La Fatta, Artist, Venice, Italy | Algis Lankelis, Artist, Lituania | Qu Lei-Lei, Artist, England | Vitaly Levchenya, Artist, Belarus | Les Levine, Artist, USA | Sol LeWitt, Artist, USA | Tan Lin, Artist, USA | Abraham Lubelski, Artist, USA | Oleg Lysheha, Poet, Ukraine | Ivan Macha, Artist, Peru | Brian Maquire, Artist, Ireland | Ati Maier, Artist, Germany | David Malangi, Aboriganal Artist, Australia | Margalit Mannor, Artist, Israel | Sliman Mansur, Artist, Palestine | Jenny Marketou, Artist, Greece-USA | Vlado Martek, Artist, Croatia | Tomasz Matuszak, Artist, Poland | Eraldo Mauro, Artist, Italy | Helen Mayer-Harrison, Artist, USA | Duncan Mc Naughton, Poet, USA | Ed McGowin, Artist, USA | Rune Mields, Artist, Germany | David Mills, Poet, USA | Jean Monod, Poet, France | Jacopo Montovani, Artist, Italy | Robert C. Morgan, Poet, USA | Marcus Mussinghoff, Artist, Germany | Joshua Neustein, Artist, USA-Israel | Ann Noel, Artist, England | Richard Nonas, Artist, USA | Sean O'Reilly, Artist, England | Cathal O`Searcaigh, Poet, Ireland | Ay-O, Artist, Japan | Andries Walter Oliphant, Poet, South Africa | Nana Onishi, Artist, Japan | Dennis Oppenheim, Artist, USA | Angel Orensanz, Artist, Spain | Yigal Ozeri, Artist, Israel | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Writer&Film-maker, Italy | Ben Patterson, Artist, USA | Rafi Peled, Artist, Israel | Mario Persico, Artist, Italy | Tadeusz Piechura, Artist, Poland | Alberto Pimenta, Poet, Portugal | Israel Pinkas, Poet, Israel| Jurgen Raap, Poet, Germany | Tamar Raban, Artist, Israel | Steven Rand, Artist, USA | Tom Raworth, Poet, England | Ursula Reuter-Christiansen, Artist, Denmark | Jungwook Grace Rim, Artist, South Korea | Harry Rosenthal, Artist, Italy | Claude Royet-Journoud, Poet&Artist, France | Raphael Rubinstein, Poet, USA | Paul Sahre, Artist, USA | Jack Sal, Artist, USA | Karin Sander, Artist, Germany | Edoardo Sanguineti, Poet, Italy | Umberto Sartory, Artist, Italy | George Schneeman, Artist, USA | Eva-Maria Schon, Artist, Germany | Buky Schwartz, Artist, Israel | Bill Seaman, Artist, USA | Mmakgabo Mmapula H. Sebidi, Artist, South Africa | Michal Sedaka, Artist, Israel | Pablo Seminario-Ramirez, Artist, Peru | Danny Shain, Artist, USA | Ward Shelley, Artist, USA | Yehiel Shemi, Artist, Israel | Laurel J. Shute, Artist, USA | Paco Simon, Artist, Spain | Gwen Smith, Artist, USA | Christopher Snee, Artist, Australia | Ronny Someck, Poet, Israel | Wole Soyinka, Poet, Niger | Nancy Spero, Artist, USA | Antoni Starczewski, Artist, Poland | Marianne Steele, Poet, USA | Haim Steinbach, Artist, USA | Anatol Stepanenko, Artist&Film-maker, Ukraine | Endre Szkarosi, Poet, Hungary | Jon Tarry, Artist, Australia | Richard Thomas, Artist, Australia | Maciej Toporowicz, Artist, USA | Jose-Miguel Ullan, Artist, Spain | Ken Unsworth, Artist, Australia | Jurga Uzkurnyte, Artist, Lituania | Daan Van Golden, Artist, Holland | Bernard Venet, Artist, France | Gregory Volk, Writer, USA | Sharif Waked, Artist, Israel | David Wakstein, Artist, Israel | Anne Waldman, Poet, USA | Harry Walter, Writer&Artist, Germany | Maria Wasko, Artist&Film-maker, Poland | Ryszard Wasko, Artist, Poland | Lilly Wei, Writer, USA | Lawrence Weiner, Artist, USA | Emmett Williams, Poet&Writer, USA | David Wise, Artist, USA | Mike Wodkowski, Artist, USA | Gary Woodley, Artist, England | Jianjun Xi, Artist, England | Lynne Yamamoto, Artist, USA | Lian Yang. Artist, China | Nathan Yonathan, Poet, Israel | Cai Yuan, Artist, England | Jian-jun Zhang, Artist, China |