Heike Fiedler was born in 1963 in Germany and after 1987 lives in Geneva. She is multilingual poet, performer, researcher, feminist and activist.She published four poetry books, one autobiographic short story and a novel. As an artist, she explores the relation between performance, text and installation, language and sound, composition and improvisation. She performs her texts with laptop, paper, looper, real-time projections, realizes installations in public space and the staging of pluridisciplinary projects. She realizes workshops in field of poetry and performance writing. Fiedler participated in the research project Authors acting on stage: self-conception and mise en-scene and she is actually researcher in field of text/writing/ sound/performance. She was president and board member of Centre PEN Suisse Romand, with a special regard for gender issues and still is member of world poetry movement.
CONVERGENCE
Walking through parcs.
Convergence.
We among trees,
mountains on the other side.
Some thoughts about winter,
cows
in the field over there.
I hurry up,
words
hold me back.
I^m sorry
to be late.
BURST
shadows are moving
you drill holes inside
the time floating down the river
of ancient unconcern
as if nothing ever happened
yet, ecology is
exploding, at a rythm of long
announced
disasters
concrete, waste, never ending use,
deforestation all over,
it’s extremely evident
the ground is cut
from underneath
and meanwhile the water
is up
to my neck
Translated into english by author