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when they came/for you/ elegies of resistance

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by Christopher Barnett
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POETRY MEMOIR  Published JULY 2013 by Wakefield Press


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2005   ulrike meinhof sang Noprdiska,  Copenhague  

2003  ulrike meinhof sang Staatsteatern, Stockholm

1994  bateu bleu/blue boat, bilingue 
Edition le Nouveau Commerce Paris

1985  last days of the world,
All Out Ensemble Sydney

1984  last days of the world & other texts for theatre
Rigmarole Books Melb

1982   selling ourselves for dinner
All Out  Ensemble Adelaide


1978  a fist in the face of public taste 
Experimental Art Foundation

CHRISTOPHER BARNETT

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a tour de force, a poem memoir of great accomplishment.
Robert Adamson (SMH)

"a wholly absorbing mediation on, and a reclamation of, a politicisation of aesthetics."
Ali Alizadeh, Overland

Recommended Books of 2013
Melbourne Age

Revolutionary Australian expatriate, Christopher Barnett, is an artist and poet who, despite many personal and professional challenges, remains faithful to his belief that art can change the world. Best known as an avant-garde experimental poet and dramaturge, Barnett won both acclaim and notoriety in Australia during the 70’s and 80’s before fleeing to France in 1992. He left behind a legacy of challenging works, including Selling Ourselves for Dinner, a play about the Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky, commissioned for the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts; Ulrike Meinhof Sings a performance piece about the infamous Baader-Meinhof group, starring Margaret Cameron; and Basket Weaving for Amateurs, a controversial play attacking the complacency of Australia’s conservative literary establishment.

Battling fallout from celebrity and a debilitating drug dependency, the ‘enfant terrible’ of the Australia’s wild underground scene sought refuge in Nantes, a seventeenth century French slavers city where he established an experimental theatre company, Le Dernier Spectateur, that still continues today with Barnett as artistic director. Working with the marginalized and disenfranchised, Barnett, uses poetry and music to assist people to overcome and survive catastrophe, earning praise and support from influential French admirers, including the recently elected Prime Minister of France, Jean-Marc Ayrault.

A documentary film, These Heathen Dreams ( by film-makers Anne Tsoulis & Georgia Wallace Crabbe) is currently in final stages of production. Using observational footage shot in France, and archival film dating back to the 60’s Australia where, as a thirteen-year old prodigy street poet, Barnett is seen marching in a Vietnam moratorium demonstration alongside Lyn Arnold, the future Premier of South Australia, this documentary examines the contribution of an Australian artist, who many acclaim as one of its great living writers. Text from his recently published poem, when they came/for you elegies/of resistance, which acts a Greek chorus throughout the documentary, gives an insight into the power and poignancy of Barnett’s writing.

From his early formative years in Adelaide where he was recruited by a Maoist faction of the Communist Party and earmarked for ‘revolutionary activities’, through the heady days in Melbourne as a controversial poet and playwright, to his later years in Nantes as a French citizen working as an ‘acteur sur le terrain’ with the underprivileged. The film is a fascinating study of the power of political activism, experienced through the life and times of the literary warrior, Christopher Barnett.


PERFORMED PLAYS

  • Thirst...is a Place, Water to Burn, National Exhibition Centre, Canberra, ACT, 25 August 1993
  • Thirst... is a Place Water to Burn, National Exhibition Centre, Canberra, ACT, August 1993
  • Transgressions, Universal Two, Fitzroy, VIC, 29 November 1989
  • The Circumnavigations of Captain Asterion, La Mama, Carlton, VIC, 11 March 1987
  • Dealing with Drought (Dialectics of Nature), The Performance Space, Redfern, NSW, 21 January 1987
  • The Last Days of the World, Adelaide Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA, April 1983
  • The Last Days of the World, Art Unit, Sydney, NSW, February 1983
  • The Last Days of the World, Reconnaisance Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 11 September 1982
  • Selling Ourselves For Dinner, Rundle Street Carpark, Adelaide, SA, 10 March 1982
Resources
  • Book: Christopher Barnett, The Last Days of the World, and Other Texts for Theatre, Rigmarole Books, Clifton Hill, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library, 1984
  • Playscript: Christopher Barnett, Selling Ourselves for Dinner, All Out Ensemble, Adelaide, National Library of Australia, 1982
Works
  • Basket Weaving for Amateurs
  • Selling Ourselves for Dinner
  • The Last Days of the World

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