The Touching Poetry of Poor Victim Medea

Artist: Urban Belina

Category: Net Art, Poetry

Description: This work has been developed as an independent e-poetry project connected with performance Product Medea 4.0 directed by Maja Milatovič-Ovadia and Saša Rakef that has been staged in London (http://www.productmedea.com).

Whiteness wrote this project on a daily basis during the production phase. Basing on the central character – Victim Medea, whose pain is actually a pleasure for the media oriented society, whiteness was writing short poetic twitts of desperation, pain and annihilation and combining it with marketing announcements for Marvelous World Wide. His identity has been hidden behind username productmedea and has been revealed after the project had finished with showings. Whiteness also created two antropomorphic machines – craving red telephone and monstrous black typewriter to complement the visual appearance of the twitter page to attentively design the atmosphere of the collection.

a r t i f i c e: This e-poetry has been developed as a cross genre experiment researching the accessibility of public through independent web 2.0 media. Project also employed the use of YouTube and Vimeo videos, blog, fictional internet site of the evil corporation that is selling Medea’s suffering, Facebook fan page, etc. and has been streamed live over Mogulus (now Live) Although most of the projects internet activity has been removed after the project has been completed, I decided to keep this twitter page available as an artefact that will be available as an example of creative and simple e-poetry implementation. I perceive it as a way of telling a parallel story in the performance event and as an interesting new dramaturgy channel that can on the one hand complement the performance piece and can be, on the other hand a stand-alone artistic piece.

Used Tool: Twitter.

Language: English.