Work
Three Poems from the Bulin File
for clarinet, tape, video and slides
Films, Audio & Samples
Sample: Excerpt from 'Three Poems From the Bulin File' by Juliet Palmer Camerman: Simon Rabie. Text by Gu Cheng.
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About
Gu Cheng, the exiled Chinese poet whose poetry and person form the basis of 3 Poems, lived on a small island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. The video images are of Gu Cheng and his poet wife Xie Ye on Waiheke Island, animations of Gu Cheng's disturbingly whimsical drawings and the poem's Chinese text. The tape uses diverse sounds and music - cooking oil, a Russian folksong sung in Chinese by the couple and - potatoes!
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Film and Video Fund (now Creative New Zealand) and the New Zealand-China Educational Foundation
Text note
Text: Gu Cheng
Performance history
Performed by Juliet Palmer (music, video & projections) at Auckland University School of Music in November 1990