The Only Question: Melbourne - Ulyanovsk – Penelope Bartlau and Danila Nozdryakov

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07.02.2022

Penelope Bartlau

The Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature Program Directorate continues publishing The Only Question - new international project - materials. 40 authors from 18 UNESCO literary cities (or related cities) participate in the project. Authors from Melbourne and Ulyanovsk – Penelope Bartlau and Danila Nozdryakov – are our guests of the project.

The organizers invited writers, poets, playwrights, translators from UNESCO literary cities to imagine they have the opportunity to ask just one question to an author from any other literary city. The initiative will help to introduce the authors from the literary cities to each other and establish their dialogue. The project will also let to understand what issues are of concern to authors from different countries today. Besides, it will provide an opportunity for readers to get to know new writers and poets.

Questions and answers by the authors (in Russian and English) along with a short biography of each participant and links to their publications will regularly appear on the Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature Website, other literary cities' websites, and social media, etc. Writers' dialogs will also be offered for publication on the project partners' platforms (literary magazines, libraries, literary media, and mass media). As a result of the project, in summer 2022 an online anthology will be released (in Russian and English) with all the conversations.

MELBOURNE – ULYANOVSK – PENELOPE BARTLAU AND DANILA NOZDRYAKOV

Penelope Bartlau

How does time feel to you?

Danila Nozdryakov

The questions seem to be the simplest are the hardest to answer. The problem is that time exists and exists objectively. But it is given to us only in our perceptions. We all have too much time, fast and slow.

I often ask myself “Why?” Sometimes indignantly, sometimes admiringly. Now I’m calmly asking this question. And I’m afraid this calmness may be imaginary.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Danila Nozdryakov

Данила Ноздряков

I am a poet and a prose writer. I was born in Ulyanovsk, now I live in Moscow. Graduated from Ulyanovsk State University. Studied to be a historian. Worked as a professor of philosophy and history. Now I work as a journalist. From 2016 started being published in the Russian literary magazines. My debut collection of verses «Поволжская детская республика» («The Volga Children’s Republic») published in 2020 in well-known Russian publishing house «Voymega».

http://textura.club/hyuston-u-nas-problemy/

http://literratura.org/poetry/3157-danila-nozdryakov-lyudi-uhodyat-iz-doma.html

https://formasloff.ru/2020/01/15/danila-nozdryakov/

https://soyuzpisateley.ru/contents.php?id=92

https://unost.org/authors/chetyre-slova/

https://flagi.media/page/3/online_issue/13#piece138

http://articulationproject.net/11486?fbclid=IwAR2iicryNJatxvTSw0bBuQFqSRcjkCF2g5kSGticNXe25XEcXY2UarznANE

http://textonly.ru/self/?issue=52&article=39315

http://zerkalo-litart.com/?p=13167

Penelope Bartlau

Бартлоу Пенелопа

Penelope Bartlau is an established multi-disciplinary artist specialising in theatrical visual interpretation and creative writing. Her practice includes devising image-based experiences that activate audiences. Penelope generates, creates and directs projects which respond to people and places and which are defined by ambition in purpose and by astonishing beauty. Her works inspire awe, wonder and curiosity and provoke thought and feeling. She aims to make us feel differently about the world and for us to question what we think we know about time, place and fact. Passionate, driven, collaborative, organised and a sustained improviser. Penelope thrives on change, welcomes uncertainty, believes in "not knowing" as one of the greatest providers of inspiration. She loves research, play and is dedicated to equality.

Penelope is highly skilled at drawing artists, non-artists and non-arts industries and technologies together in the generation of unusual experiences engaging with broad audiences. Fascinated by hidden, obscured, denied, unrecognised, invisible and unsung stories, Penelope’s interest lies in unearthing these stories, which are often historical, an interpreting them for contemporary audiences. ART FORMS Penelope works in installation creation and theatre devising and often her works combine both. Her written works range from short stories to poetry and plays. BACKGROUND: Penelope is highly skilled in puppetry, performance, installation design and creative writing. She has worked professionally in the arts for 30 years and is currently the Artistic Director for Barking Spider Visual Theatre. She has generated, collaborated and directed works with diverse communities across Australia and internationally. Her multidisciplinary creations are presented in sites as wide-ranging as museums and galleries, theatres, site-specific/heritage buildings/locations, in-school residencies, scientific collaborations and for works radio. As a part of Penelope’s practice, wherever possible, she works with young people as equal creative collaborators and innovators.

https://www.penelopebartlau.com

https://barkingspidertheatre.com.au/the-object-monologues/

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/soundproof/bathing-beauties/5582498

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/soundproof/the-memorandium/6483366

https://barkingspidertheatre.com.au/art-in-covid-19/postcards-from-the-north/

https://soundcloud.com/barkingspidervisth/grandmother-moon-emu-in-the-sky

https://aussietheatre.com.au/reviews/la-mama-psychopomp-seething

https://barkingspidertheatre.com.au/

https://vimeo.com/323417501

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