nvk (nick von kleist) is an artist, poet, performer and producer who investigates the archive and its debris as repertoire to be rehearsed, fractured and reconfigured, repeatedly. nvk explores ways that the virtual and personal can inspire new conceptions of context, time, access and equity. nvk has recently published a metamorphic book of poetry, “w-a-t-e-r-s-l-i-d-e-s” with Risiko Press (Antwerp), appearing as sound with Ignota Press, and a performance with Montez Press Radio (NY). nvk has ongoing performance-based collaborations with Michelangelo Miccolis, Kris Lemsalu, Autumn Knight, Cally Spooner, Nikima Jagudajev, and Dora García.

nvk (nick von kleist)

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//flash— grass uproots in quick steps; running in new time 



//zoom out— clear the sky &amp; screen: all levels, all at once 



//zoom out, out, out–– ready to play? 



\\press start// 



//zoom in–– awoken in a forest, the sun bathes you ––an image of wood in a green dress–– a shadow rests on time, a dirty mirror, raging bears; a halo of orange bourbon &amp; blurred faces overlay in stills–– floating 



//zoom out–– you must spell out: warbles with your tongue; try again 



//zoom in–– sleep/grass: a predusk wash. the clouds here are stone. 



//zoom in— get out— the body is, <s>&lt;yourself&gt;</s> an anti-harmony–– body running; you spit––glitch–– wet: the dew rich grass; step; lick–– circumambulation ringing 



//flash–– —you fall in. 



//flash–– eyes manifest, hands––your mouth; <s>mouth— </s> your legs, loud 



//zoom out–– level ten level four level up 



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//flash— but you need no helmet, <s>you are different </s>



\\flash— compost, skin; the floor is concrete. melodic runs. 



//zoom in–– find an exit–– and the shaken ppl; those ppl, tired, tired of the back to darkness–– 



//flash— out the portal, off the platform, a deep plunge, a twist into words down a hall, like strawberries. 



//zoom out— you look up &amp; you hear the blurred faces &amp; toenails stuttering on the in-between breeze 



//zoom out— a stone bell end of all your emotions, &amp;, i am tired; health, coin &amp; quest: a sense of place; refresh. 



//flash— you made your way, but couldn&#8217;t walk. dust covered the sun, its pixels ripping behind a leaf of cloud swirling down spirals in you/ on you 



//zoom in–– &amp; pressed against midnight ––bearing your skin to the sky–– if you stay in a place like this, you might not be able to connect 



//zoom in–– how do you, you rustle &amp; stumble again 



//zoom in–– a body still means borders 



//zoom in–– moist paint spilling dissonance 



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//zoom out— crazy adventure: chair, drink &amp; dust. 



//zoom in–– the paper broke–– but your shame was like voice over on branches breaching from lips to steps 



//flash awake after pause, action: inspect: chattering from downstairs; somehow spitting in circles, around a puddle that is your eyes 



//zoom in–– your legs bend, you stumble. it&#8217;s not much further 



//zoom in–– &amp; fusing skin falters. now, your drawn smacks seem bare— &amp; you slur: a cyber sense of community 



//zoom in–– &amp; you’re dragging a halo of orange &amp; its shadow rests in pixels; running in circles, neons leading you; <s>you couldn’t connect </s>



//zoom out–– it was definitely past glitching, when the wet paper, sitting seafoam &amp; your white shoes frozen, disarrayed &amp; mid-spill as notes struck a strong whiff <s>of glorious, cheap, available</s> 



//zoom out— memory frozen. after the sun’s death, my tendons were cigarettes &amp; the tobacco spilled out, resteeping on the dark bar. 



//zoom in–– a mad body, a grin, a leaf appears; metamorphosis is in. 



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//zoom in–– find out how you came to this green–– it fills the foreground over the long stone; the shield is waiting. are you at once sound &amp; a peninsula, with words sprouting: ‘save them’ 



//zoom-in–– you have a multi-headed, blurred, slumped body, fissure between times 



//flash— reward? <s>yes please </s>



//zoom in–– like pine, the linoleum tingling awake–– fruit fwd phlegm, frozen &amp; vibrating 



//zoom-in–– more health more hearts more time 



//zoom-in–– red tipped lavender &amp; a swarm of green— last night ripples in. 



//flash— there was all this unshifting wind again in loops–– 



//zoom in–– examine your surroundings, stones soak, so many spirals swimming in wails. 



//zoom out–– mouth—/ &amp; green–– ripples out. 



//zoom in–– you’re dragging the glitch rich grass. 



\\back to start.&nbsp;

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