Biography
Mauritz Tistelö is a poetry performance artist. He is working in the space where the physical act and the spoken word meets. When the spoken word and the body act don´t fit into each other, or don´t fit into the known image or the social context, this form of living poetry that Mauritz calls poetry performance creates.
"I do live poetry. With small actions in public spaces I create poems, often absurd, with serious humor. In the unsafe space that the small action creates, everything can happen. The person you have never seen before will ask you for a hug, so are the butterflies carrying more sky than a neutron bomb. In this way, my poetry performance art is very optimistic. A small action can be done by everyone every day. It just needs to be imagined, and done; then the grass has already moved the truck".
Artist statement
Part 1, Part 2
For this year’s Live Art, Tistelo will collaborate with artists from Cape Town. He will present a special offering with poet Vuyokazi Ngemntu, dancer Yaseen Manuel and musician Hlombe Tyali.
