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Poetry in Motion by Louis Campbell
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Poetry in Motion by Louis Campbell
Graffiti by Louis Campbell
It's got an edge
To it's colour and texture
Sometimes you get
A real good mixture
An interesting, artistic
Colourful, sprawl
Pissed out of a can
Over some wall
Poetry in Motion by Louis Campbell
Check the style in that class
Arty scribble
With hidden pride
From lost perpetrators
The city fines
It's accusing eyes crucifies
Some real illusions
And artificial dreams
Sprayed all over everything
Spewed up from the semi-conscious
Imposed on the rest of us
The unexceptable, excepted expression
A destructive creative art
With pictures from the id
Jumping to illusions on conclusions
Poetry in Motion by Louis Campbell
Virgin surfaces, screwed again
And again
By the end of some felt-tip pen
No one said it was right
But it's there to be seen
Love it or hate it
You know it has meaning
Art or vandalism
It is really just your opinion
The common plain old scene
Has now been coloured in
Graffiti, in the tattooed city
Removing stress to express
What a mind feels
Creative, destructive, provocative, crass
Graffiti
Is in its own class
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Louis CampbellLouis Campbell is a poet and lyricist based in Birmingham. He has recently worked on films for the Relocation project. Other recent self-funded projects include 'vertical hold', an exhibition in Handsworth that featured poetry in conjunction with the work of illustrators. He is a member of 'sozo', an art collective which initiated the 'intervention' project on Westminster Rd, Handsworth. He was also involved with another arts collective known as lexicon (Da Da Muton noir). Last year they exhibited poetry speaking automata at Birmingham Central Library. He has contributed to Birmingham Artsfest each year since 1995 as a performance poet and also showing short films. He has also worked as a poet, singer and lyricist with the Nutmeg Club and as lyricist and guest vocalist with 'the Dubrokaz'- a multicultural Birmingham based band. Campbell has made films from home with limited technology and no funding. The Collide project gave him the opportunity to show his work to a much larger audience within Birmingham through to its use of high profile venues such as the Patrick Centre at the Hippodrome Theatre. This year Campbell will be working with the New October Poets during the Collide Festival. Poetry in Motion Patrick Centre at the Hippodrome Part One: Louis Campbell performs live poetry, Part Two: Louis performs alongside film, Part three: The poetry ends, and the film takes over. Louis performs live poetry to the film Graffiti, and to his new film, Silhouettes in the Hall of Fame and also shows two other films, Silversnake, and Amnesia Day. Concentrating on social and moral issues, Louis juxtaposes spoken word with moving images to combine an eclectic mix of emotional references. He takes us on an moving journey into our subconscious by reflecting the absurdity of war, migration, and covering contemporary issues following the September 11th terrorist attacks, plus much much more! Part of The Three Eyes, a three part poetry and film event under the Artistic Direction of Amani Naphtali, famous for writing and directing Ragamuffin. |
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