Poetry:  Bruce Kauffman.  Photographs:  Ali Dixon.

2 of 6 pairings from the exhibition, But 6 Moments in the All of Time at the Kingston Art Council’s UNIT 115 ‘Art Space’, Kingston, ON.

Ali Dixon is an emerging multimedia artist and filmmaker from Kingston Ontario Canada currently completing her undergraduate degree at Queen’s University as a Film and Media Major. While the majority of her work is primarily still or moving image, she has recently embarked on experimenting with various medias and creative forms, from poetry and prose to soundscapes and digital collage. A recurring theme in Dixon’s work is that of Haunting, specifically Haunting as a metaphor for how memories inhabit and navigate architectures or everyday spaces. As a part of her fourth-year independent study at Queen’s, Dixon completed a multimedia work titled Pentitent Hauntings (April 26th – 30th, 2019) that explores wandering memories and their continual haunting of architectures of containment. Her collaborative work with Kauffman carries a similar weight in that each photograph depicts an isolated, everyday moment in time that is given an active voice through its accompanying poems.

Bruce Kauffman lives in Kingston and is a local poet, editor, and organizer of literary events. In addition to his collaborative work with other artists, his written work has appeared in several anthologies and journals, broadsides, two chapbooks, and four collections of poetry, with his latest – an evening’s absence still waiting for moon launching in Spring 2019. Beyond writing and editing, he organizes occasional book launch or reading events, facilitates intuitive writing workshops, founded, organizes and hosts the monthly ‘and the journey continues’ open mic reading series, the annual multiday Poets @ Artfest poetry festival, and Kingston’s tie to the global 100 Thousand Poets for Change held annually. He also produces and hosts his weekly spoken word radio show, ‘finding a voice’, on CFRC 101.9fm. With literally billions of ‘things’ happening and interacting with each other in even any instant in time – and then disappearing as they were and as we ‘knew’ them, his collaboration with Ali Dixon is meant to capture snapshots of but 6 single moments to allow them each a greater identity, a longer presence.