Kai Fierle-Hedrick & Rachel Zolf In Residence at the DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS

Rachel Zolf and I are currently in residence at the DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS as part of the AC Institute's exhibition "Exchange Value"; I will be writing on-site at the institute in Chelsea on Fridays September 17th, September 24th and October 1st — while Rachel will be participating remotely from Brooklyn.

Rachel Zolf and Kai Fierle-Hedrick will collaborate – via an on-site/off-site residency at the AC Institute – to write a sequence of poems responding to the exhibition EXCHANGE VALUE. Fierle-Hedrick will write on-site at the gallery, and at the end of each session will forward an ekphrastic poem to Zolf.

Responding via 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 – Zolf will identify a set of search terms in Fierle-Hedrick’s poem and use these to generate a new response from within The Tolerance Project’s archive.

Zolf’s poetic permutation will then serve as the starting point for Fierle-Hedrick’s next session in the gallery, and so on. The residency explores a variety of exchanges – ekphrastic, dialogic, technological – in addition to embodying some of the challenges and creative loopholes of distance collaboration.

Further information about the residency is available here:
verysmallkitchen.com/2010/09/14/department-of-micro-poetics-kai-fierle-hedrick-and-rachel-zolf-in-residence

Each week's poems will be published on the Tolerance Project's blog here:
thetoleranceproject.blogspot.com