Monday, February 6, 2017

Sacha Archer - excerpts from KIM




Sacha Archer is a Canadian writer currently residing in Ontario. He was the recipient of the 2008 P.K. Page Irwin Prize for his poetry and visual art, and in 2010 he was chosen to participate in the Elise Partridge Mentor Program. His work has appeared in journals such as filling Station, ACTA Victoriana, h&, illiterature, NōD, and Experiment-O. He is the author of the chapbooks Dishwashing Event, Part One: Tianjin, China (no press, 2016), and Dishwashing Event, Part Two: Ontario (Puddles of Sky Press, 2016). His chapbooks Acceleration of the Arbitrary (Grey Borders) and Detour [D-1] (Spacecraft Press) are forthcoming.

Authors note:
The following photographs are conceptual poem-documents. They are part of a series titled KIM, created by opening a picture of Kim Jong-un with Wordpad, thereby creating a wasteland of language at the press of a button. I then treated the resultant text as a blasted landscape proper, one which I photographed in the likeness of aerial photography. In response to the huffing and puffing of North Korea and the ever flowing vernacular of threat.