For his video poem Dwayne Jahn created almost black and white pencil drawings in 16:9 format while he was thinking about the text. The poem starts out with a sense of uncertainty and goes on describing aspects of mind and surreal states. He then photographed the drawings for editing with his video producer. She saw the lines, strings came to mind, a double bass quartet pulling their's in rotation, each player the same 3 tones. Improvised music with improvised abstract drawings go very well together for this video poem which wants to be read in orange lettering. NO INVASION had its film festival premiere in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 22nd, 2023 a part of VideoBardo in the National Library.
NO INVASION, HD, 3:23 min., Germany, 2023, Engl.: https://vimeo.com/818130506
The project is part of the subthemes Mental health narratives in poetry and Global unity and shared futures.
Author
Dwayne Jahn
Dwayne Charlou Jahn studied visual art & vocal music LaGuardia High School for the arts New York City; afterwards, he studied at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY until 2003-2006. Since 2008 he lives and works on his visual art and poetry and video art in Berlin, Germany.
His poems are inscribed onto these art video collaborations since 2021:
CELESTIAL PARTICULAR 3:13, 2021
PRIMORDIAL ENCHANTMENTS 4:13, 2021
LIGHTWAVES SOUNDWAVES 3:03, 2022
NO INVASION 3:23, 2023
