Southern Skies

I am really thrilled to be working with Michael Sollis on his Southern Skies project. Michael is commissioning short digital works that respond to and accompany the Griffyn Ensemble’s Southern Sky.

Southern Sky is a captivating suite of 17 short pieces of music that reflect the constellations seen in the southern sky. Each piece is dramatically different in style and feel. The pieces were written by Estonian composer Urmas Sisask when he visited astronomical sites and First Nation communities in Australia over 20 years ago. In 2012 it was arranged for the Griffyn Ensemble by artistic director Michael Sollis, premiered in the burnt-out ruins of Mt Stromlo Observatory, a place where Urmas visited.

I will be responding to ‘Puppis’, a piece of stark celestial beauty, with a hand-drawn animation based on my experience of sleeping under the stars in the Northern Territory in winter 2021.

Look forward to sharing the result later in the year.

Forthcoming: F-Words!

I am excited to see the very first prints of my new collection ‘F-Words’ today. It will be released in May by Recent Work Press, with a launch event on Monday 24 May at Smith’s Alternative. There might also be sneaky early copies available at my reading at Poetry at Manning Clark House on 22 April… So glad to have this work out in the world, and at the quality produced by Recent Work Press.

Fwords.jpg

WAVES AND PARTICLES - exhibition at Project Contemporary Artspace, 4-15 November 2020

Being Wollongong-born and bred, I am really excited to take some of my artwork back there for a show at Project Contemporary ArtSpace. ‘Waves and Particles’ includes work made over the past three years which asks - what are we made of? It is about our composition and formation as human beings. Ceramic works, video, text and photographs examine the way our geological strata of experience accumulate, the shifting water and weather of our emotional seascape, how we navigate the terrain of our social environment. Project is open Weds - Fri 11 am -  5 pm and Sat - Sun 12 pm - 4 pm. If you are in town, pop in and say hello!

Waves & particles Malins.png

Lurk Burley Griffin - Contour 556

I am having a lot of fun as a member of the ‘Lurk Collective’, creating site-specific video poetry for the Contour 556 Festival which opens on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin (and a few other sites around town!) on Friday 9 October. The other members of the collective are Caren Florence, Melinda Smith and Zoe Anderson, and we are creating encounters with a number of lurkers around the lake - pick-up artists, surveillance cameras, and rakali - the native water rat. Here is a teaser for my piece, and you can find us on the web, facebook , instagram, twitter @BurleyLurk , and the Lurk channel on Vimeo. Even better watched in situ at the lakeshores, or you can follow an interactive twine adventure on our website.

New poetry collection coming in 2021!

While the COVID shutdown felt like a time of low energy and little motivation, something I did do was compile and submit a poetry manuscript in response to a callout from Recent Work Press for their 2021 publication program. And I am thrilled to share the news that I was successful! As you see, I join a list of amazing writers, and am honoured to be among their company. The book is due for release in May - watch this website or follow me on facebook or instagram @jacquiamalins for more details on the launch…

117035324_3178558632257512_7695024223233152101_o.jpg

Tuesday 28 July - Being Moved - Rhythmic Connection in Spoken Word - Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online →

On Tuesday evening at 7pm (AEST) I am presenting the first in a series of four lectures ‘Investigations into Rhythm’ for Melbourne Spoken Word Festival Online, curated by the wonderful Waffle Irongirl. I am presenting SESSION 1: Being Moved - Rhythmic Connection in Spoken Word. This will be followed on the next three Thursday and Tuesday evenings by lectures by Sam Ferrante, Emilie Collyer and Melizarani Selva.

In spoken word performance, our text is not on a flat page. It is in our voices and bodies in pitch, tone, movement and rhythm, working in the space between performer and audience. I will emotional affect in spoken word at the intersection of mind and body, thought and sensation. How does rhythm connect performer and audience through the body? How can it help us to perform, convey or evoke an emotional response in our listener? And you will have a chance to experiment with your own rhythms too.

Bookings are essential, and the cost of tickets is tiered so you can pay what you can afford. The ticket link is HERE.

I would love to see you on Tuesday night - come and be moved!