3 Thought Provoking Rives Performances
Not one for poetry and performance art it’s actually quite surprising that I found the work of Rives as riveting and thought provoking as I did. That being said, I’m posting three videos on my site about him. There isn’t a whole lot to say other than this is the first performance artist/poet to really catch my eye, even through all those years as an art major at Northern Michigan University I was never able to really grasp the art of spoken word outside of music. The following has changed that.
Rives remixes TED 2006
The first comes from TED Conference 2006 in February of 2006. It’s an amazing imagery of what the TEDers will do once they leave the conference, and what we should all do when we have the spark of a new or life changing idea…share it.
Rives storytelling with Emoticons
This is another TED performance that just made me think about our modern forms of communication and where the art of storytelling through spoken/written words is vanishing too with the use of emoticons, shorthand, and text messaging.
The ‘Op Talk’ poem
A truly beautiful description of how strong the ties are that link the bond between siblings through the form of spoken words. That’s about all I can say.
You can check out more of Rives’ work on his website @ http://www.shopliftwindchimes.com/ and YouTube (link to channel) and if you aren’t at work, you can check out some of his NSFW performances on the Def Poetry Jam.
Enjoy.