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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

I wrote A Piece of Fabric for my father, Anthony Frederick Taylor 2 January 1937 – 24 April 2009. I read A Piece of Fabric at the memorial service, held at St. Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, 29 April 2009. The service went over four hours. Raymond Boyce spoke, Roger Hall remonstrated, Paul Barrett

a piece of identity – monologue with slideshow (2008)

a piece of identity – monologue with slideshow (2008)

C stands in front of a black and white video still – the face of a woman in close up. C One must first divest oneself of the notion of the unknowable, of the Unknown: silk is over the photo, silk of the process. A procedural coating, like albumen – silver nitrate

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

by the fact that I am here, you gain everything; by the fact that I am not, you lose nothing. OR I AM THAT WITHOUT WHICH THIS IS NOT. OR the surface cannot make contact with the surface. BEFORE EVERYTHING WAS MANIFEST Danaë, or resistance Almost a thousand days at

a short history of original thought in New Zealand – screenplay (short)

a short history of original thought in New Zealand – screenplay (short)

the cemetery of principle, part 2 (link to part 1) EXT. FEDERAL ST. ENVIRONS — MORNING Our man, BERNARDO, hurries across Federal Square, radio mic in place!, in front of us: he is aware of the cumbersome nature of our apparatus but keen to show us something. BERNARDO There’s something

World City Christchurch – building a city for the future

World City Christchurch – building a city for the future

presented to Christchurch City Council soon after the earthquake of 22 February, 2011. I have revised the following slightly to present it here. We, the people of New Zealand, make the gift to Christchurch of a glass-fibre infrastructure along with a data-pipeline connecting it to the world. This is the

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

from Redcliffe to Craig Larkin's death I does it last the night a deep a deep fissure suspended day like ash light half the half tolting belief-ridden down the grain grey of a twilit beach-head what measure round sleep sleep curled in sleep’s organs lungs brain a

Declaration of Independence of NZ – He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni

Declaration of Independence of NZ – He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni

before translation, by Eruera Pare Hongi, the English draft, written by James Busby, follows: Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand 1. We, the hereditary chiefs and heads of the tribes of the Northern parts of New Zealand, being assembled at Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands, on this 28th