Portfolio

Selected Publications and Performances by Dylan Kinnett. The works are a fusion of writing, performance art, and digital media.

Day One at the Airport Motel

A story about working as a motel housekeeper, including the mixed perspectives and ephemeral realities of all who pass through an interstitial place like a motel, alongside a highway, near an airport.

American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Two short plays published in American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: a farcical, dark comedy about astronauts, Party Planet; and The Piece of Real Estate at the Top of the Tallest Building on Earth, a mouthful of a title set in a too-fast near-future.

Lit Show

What do you get when you cross a late night music video show with a literary reading? Lit Show! The variety show features language artists worldwide, with video performances, multimedia, and music.

Augury

Video with spoken word and ambient music, in response to the pandemic.

Weather Report from Jupiter

Written and recorded during the pandemic lock-down of 2020, this video imagines the experience of a meteorologist sent in isolation to Jupiter to report on its alien and hostile conditions."

Infinity’s Kitchen

a graphic literary journal of experimental writing

What’s the Catch? at Artscape

My performance routine, What’s the Catch? was featured on stage with Cardinal Space, at the Prints and Multiples Fair as part of Artscape 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. Artscape is America’s largest free arts festival, attracting 350000+ attendees each year

Short Plays

The Cardinal space in Baltimore hosted an evening of one-act, five-minute, and even shorter plays, written by Dylan Kinnett. These were presented as a staged reading with actors Stephanie Barber, Peter M. Cardamone, Justin Sanders, Mike Shattuck, and David Young. The evening’s themes included morbid farce, executive intrigue, and other oddities.

How to Rant

How to Rant: A Workshop at the Microfiction Rowhouse. This was a writing workshop, focused on extemporaneous composition, using the familiar idea of a rant as a start.

Natural Order: An Exhibition of Lists

Interactive collaboration with artists, audience and typewriter. Accompanying exhibition and publication. This was the inaugural event for the Cardinal art space. Baltimore, Maryland. 2017.

Infinity Ink Presents: An Internet

Amalgamation of contained digital content, a small internet on a USB drive, together with a unique, modified book.

Sun Ra Jazz Listening Party

How do you talk about a musician from another planet, anyway?

Portraits and Landscapes

a chapbook of poems that consider people and places. The works about people are written with shorter lines, stacked together.

Litanies and Reiterations

A chapbook of short, formally experimental writings about repetition, ritual, frustration, and futility. These works are well-suited to reading aloud, for the way they sound.

States and Drives II

Performance inspired by the composer John Cage.

Litblog Roundup

Observations of topics and trends from across the literary internet.

LitScape

Performance at a day long festival to celebrate the greater Baltimore literary community. 2014.

Federal Dust

Featured reading at the Federal Dust series. Baltimore, Maryland. 2014.

LED Baltimore

A haiku poem, appearing on a jumbotron billboard in central Baltimore.

No Air Radio Presents

I performed two pieces at the storied Pilot Light venue in Knoxville, entitled Coming Soon to Videocassette and Canned Laughter. I’m pretty sure the crowd was bewildered.

Left of the Bank

Spoken word performance by Dylan Kinnett at the 10th Annual Left of the Bank fundraiser reading for the Shepherdstown Public Library in West Virginia. Friends of Shepherdstown Library presented an evening of poetry readings and music on Friday, April 11, 2014. The Left of the Bank event featured music by Don Oehser and Friends. Ed Zahniser served as Master of Ceremonies, introducing local and regional writers Tom Donlon, Dylan Kinnett and Sue Silver.

What’s the Catch?

Performance art featuring an array of constantly ringing analogue telephones and an overhead transparency projector.

Party Planet

A farcical, dark comedy about astronauts.

The Doppler Effect

A tale about differences of experience and opinion, written using only a single adjective. "

Experimental Poems

Two writings, one asemic, the other experimental.

Copycat Sessions

A unique & enjoyable lo-fi ambient experience.

Space Age Bachelor Pad

Eternally a work in progress, it seems.

Write Nite

As a featured performer at the Preservation Pub in Knoxville, I provided some antics, with an early rendition of my routine, What’s the Catch? Special thanks to the friends who helped me to collect all those analogue telephones to use as props.

Dadadodomax: for Word Collages

Code contribution to an open-source app that generates random sentences from any text. 2012.

Flashing in the Sun with a Glitter of Knives

Literary criticism about Futurism. Can any of Futurism’s aesthetic ideas prevail beyond the problematic politics? Should they?

The Experimental Literature Cook Off

An informal session for experimental writers modeled on the idea of a chili cook off

What Weekly

A review of Baltimore’s best venues for literary readings.

I Don’t Get It

Editorial for the first issue of Infinity’s Kitchen, also featured in two 100 level writing courses.

WORMS

WORMS is a reading series described as an interactive literary magazine in 3-D. I was a featured performer there, in October 2010. I shared the stage with Lauren Bender, co-founder of Narrow House, a publisher of experimental literature; Erin Gleeson, co-creator of the Showbeast puppet series; Rachel Monroe; and Chris Toll.

Speak Your Piece!

My performance involved a fluxus machine. It was made of 12 old, plastic telephones and a script involving many voices. I arranged the telephones on the table and answered the telephones randomly, reading fragments from voices, hanging up, answering others, and so on.

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