Allen Ginsber Blows, the punch and the verse

a performance

Poetry and boxing have rarely had anything to do one with another. In both cases, though, their known practice among man goes as far as written testimonies go. Homer is often considered to be the first poet, and this fact being the beginning of the western culture as we know it, seing his poetry as the very first root for the later Philosophy.
Also boxing is known to have been practiced by the greeks, and it has prevailed in one form or another untill our days.
This last activity has been descrived with many metaphores, one of them descriving it as a drama without words. And it is indeed true that blows are many times a replacement for words, as the poet uses the words as blows in their verses many times, like in the case of Allen Ginsber.

In our project, we want to put poetry and boxing toghether in a performance. We want to have a boxer hit a punching bag, and through a microphone we'll pick up the rithim of his exercise to trigger the poetry as sound and as image. The violence of the blows will be the rithim of the words, that will be displayed both as sound and as text, creating an experience where this two antagonistic activities will merge in one.þ