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Email - ipla.contact@gmail.com
Instagram - inparentheses_
Youtube - @languageartists
In Parentheses (Language Artists), or, IPLA, is a new collective of multidisciplinary language artists from across the globe conglomerated by chance and mutual interest in the written word whilst studying in London.
Deliberately different, intentionally oblique, and intensely open-minded, IPLA asks what art, poetry and language are, where they meet, merge and blend into each other, and at what point in this blending they become something more – something both within and without the bracket.
IPLA has been commissioned collaboratively and as individuals by the National Gallery, National Poetry Library, European Poetry festival, Candid Arts, the Poetry Society Cafe and the Bouda Gallery Notting Hill, appeared in the POPOGROU Anthology, and individually published chapbooks of original poetry promoted by the Small Publishers Fair in 2024.
At the heart of IIPLA is the unification of regularly separated poetic forms: exhibition poetry, performance poetry, and written poetry, in a way that promotes and is concerned with the inherent and expansive relationship between perception and the universal.
We host live events that exist simultaneously with, and in, live exhibition space; thus encouraging creative decision making by forming relationships: between the individual and a community of collaboration. The unique perceptions derived from each poetic form are honoured, but likewise expanded upon; connected to the dynamic, vast poetry being created in the 21st century; proactively creating communication between these poems, themes, and ultimately our universal nature.
In Parentheses (Language Artists) team -
Cameron Wade-
Cameron Wade is a writer and poet based in London. His work explores the nature of storytelling, the relationship between inner and outer realities, non-linear storytelling, and themes of madness, ‘other’-spaces, the eerie and the weird; experimenting with ergodic literature and meta-textuality through fiction, prose-poetry, visual and asemic poetry, collage and performance.
Danica Ignacio-
Danica Ignacio is a Filipino poet whose writing focuses on the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the non-ordinary by giving importance to the small. Mainly taking from more traditional forms of poetry, her work aims to morph the everyday experience just enough to be unrecognisable while still maintaining its form.
Found on instagram @eventualantiques
Eleanor Wilders
Eleanor Wilders finds inspiration from the ignored details of routine and from the in-betweens of the everyday experience, she crafts stories that question our assumptions about connection, purpose, and freedom. Her artistic practice leads to an exploration of exposure in today's society; her work tries to confront the paradox of vulnerability in an age of hyper-connectivity, whilst grappling with the tension between authenticity and public persona.
Found on instagram @eleanorwilders
Matthew Sokulsky
Matthew Sokulsky is concerned with the tense relationship between nature and rational, theology and logic, and their ability (or not) to co-exist in the contemporary. His work experiments with traditional forms to create decidedly new poetry that at once exemplifies modernity while recognising the rich vein of myth and ritual to which he believes all poetry fixes its base.