RO-DAI-SUN is a poetry collective and group moniker archiving the journals of Catherine Machado, Emma Cosgrove, and Iva Čelebić. After meeting in a university reporting class in 2013, the three began collaborating and expanding together into an increasingly creatively charged space. In the interest of creating a place for their work to meet in the physical realm, the first issue of the RODAISUN booklet was published July 2021.
Since then, the group has published a monthly issue in print, each one serving as a time capsule for its respective month. Having a private writing practice that becomes shared and public serves to remind that so much of art making stems from the ritual return to the notebook: where feeling is preserved and a personal inventory evolves.
The three voices weave together a braid of past, present and future, three sides of a triangle, overlapping, falling into sync, and finishing each other's sentences. Themes of memory, ecology, time, the body, loss, and absurdity paint the collection of street literature which consists of over 600 poems to date.
‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚
Stockists
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (211 Rue Bernard O)
Librairie Saint-Henri Books (4622 Rue Notre Dame)
N'était-ce Pas L'été (6792 St Laurent Blvd)
Concordia Anarchist Zine Library
‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.
Emma Cosgrove is a Irish-Canadian filmmaker and artist living in Tiohtià:ke, "Montreal." Her projects tend to nature's magic, construction and demolition, and the life cycle of objects, employing poetry to compliment images often shot on 8 or 16mm film. She is a fan of the precise place where nature, machines, fact and fiction intersect. Her work has been shown on NoBudge, Eternal Family, Kinoskop Analog Film Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art (FiFA), Bogota Music Video Festival, Canada Shorts, and Sweden Film Awards.
Iva Čelebić is a Yugoslavian-Canadian artist and writer living in Tiohtià:ke, "Montréal." Her work is heliocentric; it aims to texture the inner landscape through memory, displacement, and identity, without dimming her reverence for the Sun and nature's secrets. She is the creator of Grapeseed Publishing & The Sun Room, a traveller's companion magazine. She has been previously published by The Veg, Mai/son, The Pit Periodical & Editorial Magazine.
Catherine Machado is an artist, performer, and archive producer. She is the creator of CAT CRUSH (2022), a newsletter turned poetry book on love and sex. Her work deals with mysticism, social narratives and thoughts stored in the body. Her series "Bonne Santé / Merci" (2023) documented her period blood on greeting cards for 6 months. Her approach is highly conceptual, experimental, and is theoretically grounded in the alchemy of live performance and voice. She is currently submerged in the world of sonic poetry and the theatre, using masks as a pedagogical tool for storytelling. Most recently she played the role of 'Time' in the eco-feminist puppet ballet "Raj Na Ziemi / Paradise on Earth" by Marcela Szwarc, which debuted in Montréal Spring 2024. She has been published by The Pit Periodical & The Sun Room.
