Text of poetry performance by ‘AETHER: mediacollaboration in real time’

Анотація

‘AETHER: mediacollaboration in real time’ is a group of four Ukrainian artists and writers created in 2016 in Lviv by poets Iryna Zahladko and Mykhailo Zharzhailo, visual and media artist Roman Haydeychuk and sound artist Yuriy Bulka. The title of the group also was the title of their first performance on 16^th September 2016. Since then, the group have made in total 11 different editions of the performances that have literary base (mostly – poems by Iryna Zahladko and Mykhailo Zharzhailo). Art group ‘AETHER: mediacollaboration in real time’ paused performance activity in spring 2019 because of Iryna Zahladko and Mykhailo Zharzhailo’s relocation.

In April 2019 I received a folder from Iryna Zahladko with 35sheets of both authorized and unauthorized computerscripts related to ‘AETHER: mediacollaboration in real time’s performances. I archived those as 8 items. Current research focuses on the analysis of the archived item No. 1, which is an authorized computerscript of the full text of a single performance script. The article aims to describe the archived item No. 1 and analyze the structure of the text; it also starts the wide investigation upon the texts of contemporary poetry performances in Ukraine. The objectives of the paper are to describe the archived item No. 1 as well as to give key characteristics to the structure of the analyzed text.