Lina Ru is a sound poet — living in the Great White North — and a visual artist who balances her philosophy of poetry with experimental music and film. Her work explores what does it mean to be human + poetry, being poetry.
⇓ English version below.
Lina Ru es una poeta sonora y artista visual que busca tener un balance entre su filosofía de la poesía y su música y filmes experimentales. Su trabajo poético se centra en que significa ser humano + poesía, porque eres poesía.
⇓ Puedes leer en español después de la versión en inglés.
EDUCATION
Hey, isn’t code poetry? — BS in Computer Science Administration
Not exactly… but let’s say being is poetry. — MPhil in Humanities
But isn’t poetry just really language? — Teaching English as a Foreign Language
This will be a very long journey… – Spanish, English, Japanese, French
To spice it up, let’s add some music into the mix – Sound Poetry, Musician, and Composer
Can poetry be an immersive experience? – Filmmaking, Photography, Visual Arts
SOCIAL
- No Matter What it is
No matter what it is, it will go away No matter what it is, it will regenerate No matter what it is, it will evaporate No matter what it is, it will decompose No matter what it is, it will… Read more » - Between the Will and Attention
The mind is a little crow, a double sided sword, where will and attention play, while agape feeds the rarest crow, desire feeds the common crow. Trapped by passions we feel that attention serves its master, will, trapped by a… Read more » - Drops of Rain
We are drops of rain in an ever expanding universe, some drops fall in deserted islands, some drops terraform the martian seas, some drops fall in an attempt to liberate us, some drops touch our sulfidic depths, some drops fall… Read more » - Hidden Luminosity
What if everything around us is free, but we’re not. If we’re not, how can everything around us be free? If everything around us is free, we’re free. What if we are free for others, but not to us. If… Read more »
EDUCATION
La programación es un lenguaje, ¿no? Es poesía. — Ing. en Computación Administrativa
No exactamente… pero vamos a decir que el ser es poesía. — MPhil en Humanidades
¿Será acaso que la poesía es sólo lenguaje? — Diploma para enseñar inglés como lengua extranjera
Este camino va a ser muy largo aprendiendo idiomas… – Español, Inglés, Japonés, Francés
Vamos a agregar música al mix – Poesía acústica, Música, and Compositora
¿Podrá hacerse la poesía de forma inmersiva? – Filme, Fotografía, Arte Visual
SOCIAL
