Date: May 2019
Address: 1945 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5N 4A8
Website: http://riddimnspice.com
Dinner: Goat curry with rice and Fried red snapper fish
Drink: Ginger beer and coconut water
Jaw-dropping –
just Jack-in-the-box.
Jaywalking across jazzed Jamaican jungle,
jo jam jamming, no jam-packing, no jambalaya,
not even jive.
Jingle, jingle, juxtapose junior jumble
Jump into Jacuzzi in a jiffy.
Date: May 2019
Address: 1072 Denman St, Vancouver, BC V6G 2M8
Website: https://www.gillanehgrillhouse.com/
Appetizer: Kashke Bademjan: eggplant with walnuts
Entree:
Dizi – Traditional Iranian lamb chickpea soup
Fesenjan – Chicken in walnut and pomegranate sauce
Drink: Mast Khiar – Cucumber and mint yogurt
I instantly identified ideology:
intrinsically Iranian.
Imposing interesting interactions
invested in injecting intimate inmates
in-medias-res,
in the immaculate interior
and their ideal ilk.
Iconic important identity –
inamorata and inamorato
an item – inaudible interactions in isolation.
Image of Icarus ignoring ill-informed inquiry,
impulsive, imbalanced, imperfect, immature,
inclined to irrationally ignite ideas
that initiate incidents inch by inch,
with irreversible implications and impact.
In-between improvisations and in-depth impressions
immediate irresistible initiatives
immersed in immemorial and immortal imprints.
Impeccable!
Date: May 2019
Address: 3735 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6R 2G5
Website: https://pokemanvancouver.com/
SPICY TUNA –
Hungry for Hungarian,
which is hideously hiding.
However, having Hawaii
as a hypothetical home-country,
heading to a harbour.
Ha!
Hundreds of hustling humans in harmony
Hadrian’s heirs with hairbands and hairdos,
and headphones,
like harlequins hopping high and hilarious,
taking a hack half-jokingly, half-naked like on holiday.
No haste, no hurry, a hike here and there.
Hearts in hands, harmless, with hats against heat
harvesting haiku and hallucinations,
hunting for happiness with no hazard,
heavenly hegemonic heros.
Date: April 2019
Address: 4875 Victoria Drive, Vancouver, BC V5N 4P3
Website: https://www.vacbc.ca
Appetizer: Asparagus salad
Main course: Feast for Two
1/2 oven roasted pork hock, 2 schnitzel, 2 Bavarian meatloaf,
and assorted sausages. Served with spatzle, red cabbage and sauerkraut.
Dessert: Apple Strudel
A century-old home-style recipe, served with vanilla ice cream.
Drink: Beer (of course)
 Still/ed Here on Bowen Island |
 Recording a story: Installation |
September 25, 2019, 6:30-8:00pm, 2674 E Hastings St, Vancouver. Contributions to the story of displacement by the general public on-site.
Free
September 24, 2019 – 6:30-8:30, Gallery Room 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC. Organized by Pandora’s Collective
Free
 Reading with Trevor Carolan: Poetic Pairing |
 Reading with Trevor Carolan: Poetic Pairing |
September 12, 2019 8pm, Hood 29, 4470 Main Street, Vancouver
Free
 TWS Reading |
 Reading at TWS series |
“On the Margin of History” – Screening at the Motion Pictures International Film Festival.
Time and location: August 23-25, 2019, at Creative Guild Studios, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
“On the Margin of History” – 1st prize in the category of Digital and performative multimedia art.
 Surrey Art Gallery installation |
 First prize certificate |
“On the Margin of History” – Exhibition of the video poem, hosted at the Glucksman Gallery, a prestigious national institution of the contemporary arts. The exhibition was open from July 10th to allow the wider audience to experience the art.
About the event from the website:
“The theme for ELO2019 #ELOcork is “peripheries”: delegates are invited to explore the edges of literary and digital culture, including emerging traditions, indeterminate structures and processes, fringe communities of praxis, effaced forms and genres, marginalised bodies, and perceptual failings.”
Gluckman Gallery, exhibition
Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
“On the Margin of History” – Panel discussion where we talked about our collaborative process and creative juices.
About the conference, from the website:
“Experiential storytelling encompasses works that foreground the experience of the audience or reader. Works that offer authentic and often personalised experiences are becoming increasingly prevalent and this year MIX offers opportunities to think about what that might mean for digitally-mediated narratives. Additional themes for this year’s conference include immersion and publishing; we define these themes broadly and are interested in how new forms of storytelling can respond to and learn from emerging works that explore the potential of immersive technologies.”
Panel Poetry Film with Mary McDonald and Mohamad Kebbewar
 Presentation |
 UN building, Copenhagen |
“On the Margin of History“ – Announcement from the media:
Tvrdjava mira /Fortress of Peace, Novi Sad
War is a part of human history, but it becomes history only when there is no one to tell its story. What happens with the consequences of wars that we still witness?
A project “On the Margin of History” talks about migration and deals with the consequences of the war in Syria, as well as depicts the situation after the NATO bombing of Serbia. Although starting as a form of video poetry, the project has grown into a transmedial installation, which goal is to cause empathy, humanity and closeness in chaos following the conflict. The use of augmented reality technology contributes to expressing those emotions through art.
The project combines new media, poetry, photography and video fragments and it is a result of the international collaboration between Mohamad Kebbewar, a poet from Syria, Mary McDonald – a multimedia artist from London (Canada) and Natasha Boskic from Novi Sad who works at the Faculty of Education the University of British Columbia, as a director of the educational technology support unit.
Рат је део људске историје, али рат постаје историја тек када не постоји више нико да исприча његову причу. Шта је са последицама ратова о којима и даље можемо сведочити?
Пројекат „На маргини историје“ покреће тему миграција и бави се последицама рата у Сирији и осликавањем ситуације након НАТО бомбардовања Србије. Иако започет као облик „видео поезије“ пројекат је прерастао у тзв. „трансмедијалну инсталацију“ чији је циљ да пробуди емпатију, људскост и блискост у „хаосу“ који настаје после сукоба. Употреба технологије проширене реалности (Augmented Reality) допринеће да овај уметнички израз пренесе ове емоције.
Пројекат комбинује нове медије, поезију, фотографије и видео записе и производ је међународне сарадње Мохамада Кебевара – песника из Сирије, Мери Мекдоналд – мултимедијалне уметнице из Лондона и Наташе Бошкић – Новосађанке која на педагошком факултету на универзитету Британске Колумбије у Ванкуверу ради као директор групе за подршку за употребу образовне технологије.
 Opening reception, Novi Sad |
 Opening reception, Novi Sad |
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 Watching AR |
 Watching AR |
“On the Margin of History” – Installation: video poem and augmented reality (AR)
About the conference, from the website:
“The conference will look at the nature of artificial thought, and forms of intelligence in nature – charted through aspects of transdisciplinary creative practice and theory in our planetary culture.
Just as new paradigms of feeling and communication are beginning to form around our interaction with life at all levels of our perception, from plants and trees to fungi and bacteria, we may see matter as inhabited mind, media as necessarily moist, and technology as a tool of the Tao.
Thought is spreading through all our systems, places and products. We need cities that are not only smart but sensitive: schools that think, roads that remember, buildings that feel. art that is as much extra-sensory as interpersonal.
Our consciousness is both reframing and reforming.”
 Installation setup |
 AR components |
The collaboration with a poet, Mohamad Kebbewar, started as “Poetic pairings,” an event organized by Pandora’s Collective, an outreach non-profit organization, dedicated to promoting literary arts in Vancouver, Canada. We were excited to read together since our countries, Serbia and Syria, experienced similar fates. When we began weaving our verses together, we realized how war made us both feel the same, helpless, frightened, and lost. Our lines overlapped, our words chased each other on the paper. Even our voices echoed with the same emptiness. Mohamad and I recognized how a human soul can be peeled, layer by layer, and revealed through art. We got a lot of feedback from our audience about our work together. Thanks to the generous offer of Pamela Bentley’s time, space and editing skills, we made a good audio recording of our poem at the Co-op Radio studio.
The need to go further and investigate how art enables better understanding of narrative strategies, and the functioning of intuition led us to the idea of a visual poem, and Augmented Reality installation that would challenge new paradigms of feeling and communication. We connected with an artist and writer, Mary McDonald, whose interests are in posing poetry narrative against and within layers of sound, silence, image, and video.
“Margin of history” is a witness of the destruction of ancient history and the sharp demographic change in Aleppo, a city of six million people that lost ninety percent of its residents over the course of six years, and then filled with new people. It is the witness of the breakdown of former Yugoslavia, culminating in the NATO bombing of Serbia where silence was the only response to events that had left people in shock and disbelief. It is a transdisciplinary project that considers the tensions between personal voice and story and the possibilities of the digital visual to suggest and reinforce false and real narratives and/or to create understandings through metaphor, playing with all levels of our perception. It attempts to reframe our consciousness to find empathy and closeness, humanity in chaos.
Mobile electronic technology is used to employ symbolic storytelling in order to tell the true cost of war — the reverberating loss of the destruction of people and place, family, heritage, traditions, and cultures. Utilizing stone and clay, the oldest forms for written record as image and metaphor, through direct photo and video manipulation layers have been created from still images, clips of slow motion, time lapse, hyper lapse, stop motion, gifs, lines of light, double exposure, long exposure, motion graphics, and text. Fragmented layers of sound and image reproduce a sense of displacement and erasure. Photographs, video, text, music are manipulated by hand — distorted, skewed, glitched, inverted, repeated, placed in juxtaposition and superimposition. The AR exhibit consists of a mosaic of stills which when viewed with the AR app on a smartphone become short videos. These brief fragments of poem and film enhance the experience of the surreal and feelings of displacement. Text is digitally exploded, creating reverberating echoes of lost words, lost truths. Writing and artistic creation is a kind of healing, processing, and letting go of war and decomposition of life. Even when we chose to leave them behind, they never leave us.
On the Margin of History from connect on Vimeo.
Our collaborative work has been presented in Europe in summer 2019, and in Canada. There are also other events and opportunities coming.
Our video is screencast at the movie festivals.
Date: April 2019
Address: 1961 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1M7
Website: lacigalebistro.ca
Canard Confit
duck confit eggs benny / lettuce / tomato / duck-fat hollandaise
Moules Frites
white wine garlic cream / toasted garlic baguette / hand cut french fries
Fascinating feast of Fruit-de-Mer
and French fries.
Friendly, flamboyant face and
fashionable figure with fine features
forecasting feat,
facilitating fairytales.
Fantasizing about femme fatale?
Focus on food
forgetting formalities with a fork,
fetching with fingers.
Finally fortunate and full,
fuzzy but functional flying far.
Farewell!
Date: March 2019
Address: 2017 Commercial Dr. Vancouver, BC —V5N 4B1
Website: https://www.addis-cafe-ethiopian-restaurant-vancouver.com/
Shared menu:
Hummus
Chickpeas or garbanzo beans, and tahini, a paste similar in texture to peanut butter that is made from sesame seeds.
Doro
(Chicken) wot and Veggie Combinations
Drink:
Ethiopian Spiced Tea
Enthusiastic Ethiopian
engages in elaborate
explanations about eating experience.
Elegant exposition of edible extraordinary experiments.
Each exhibited element
emotionally endlessly effective.
Empathy in existence.
sandwich
Date: March 2019
Address: 19080-96th Avenue Unit 9, Surrey BC V4N 3R3
Website: http://thebestdeli.com/
The website and the Facebook page advertise a lot of Danish products so we hoped for a nice deli with the choices that can help us “build” our own sandwich. In addition, maybe we could select a few cheeses or snacks.
There was a line-up already created when we arrived, and it seemed everyone was interested in sandwiches only. Asking for recommendations meant to interrupt the owner who liked his own stories and conversations. He couldn’t stop talking. We ended up with the same sandwich as everyone else and just decided to eat it (for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as it was enormous). If you are looking for a huge sandwich with a lot of meat, go for it!
Doh!
Danish bakery
Date: March 2019
Address: 101 – 5780 176a St, Surrey, BC V3S 4H4
Website: https://www.cloverdalebakery.com/
Choice of the day: Copenhagen, Kringle and Marzipan slice.
Discovered by detour
damsel difficult to disclose any details
about Denmark or Danish.
Departed dissatisfied.
While ducks disappearing in the distance
devouring desserts
delicious, and delightful despite disgruntled dame.
Date: February 2019
Address: 1212 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC V5L 3X4
Website: https://www.havanavancouver.com/
Choice of drink: Mojito and Sangria
Shared brunch:
Croque Señora
Cubano sandwich, fried egg, charred poblano cream sauce, mariquitas
Avocado Tostones
twice fried plantains, cotija cheese, pico de gallo.
Contemplating casual conversation
with chatty community of consumers
circumferentially collaborating on calculating calories.
Craving creative cuisine,
curious about customs.
Creamy, celebratory craft,
chewy charms,
citrusy concoction,
cup of coffee,
no cookies, no churros.
Cactus in the centre of the counter
continue till the closing cadence.
Cash,
change,
cease.
