Dani over at iCommons asked me to donate some art to the upcoming bring n braai, which is geared towards CC work in relation to child education in South Africa. I wanted to give something that was fitting and South African, so I went back into my archives and pulled up the performance poem I originally wrote for The Double Room, a multimedia piece about the discourse surrounding HIV, which premiered in Joburg in 2001, and subsequently won 3 FNB Vita awards. I’d never recorded it, so had to brush up a bit, but went ahead and made mp3’s of both the long version of the poem (the un-pronounce-able, 9:42) and a shorter version I edited down for use in the 2002 US National Poetry Slam competition, with Team Ithaca (the story, 3:16). Please distribute and re-mix at will! Info follows:
The title of the work: the un-pronounce-able, 9:42 and the story, 3:16
The name of the creator/copyright holder: nathaniel stern
Webpage or URL of the creator/copyright holder: http://nathanielsternn.com
The year in which the artwork was produced: written 2001 and 2002, respectively; recorded 2007
Contact details of the copyright holder: http://nathanielstern.com/details/contact.html
The question about South African culture that I think it would be useful for kids to explore through this content: How can we “contaminate” or “infect” each other in good ways? Can love, healing, and creativity be “infectious”?
Both under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence
