RO-DAI-SUN is a group moniker and poetry project, that archives 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 44 issues / 700 poems to date.
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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
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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 without dimming her reverence for the sun and nature's secrets. Her approach to language is surreal & grounded in the mundane, embracing tones of prophecy in order to investigate themes of silence, wildness, identity & displacement. She is the creator of small press, Grapeseed Books & is the editor of The Sun Room, a traveller's companion journal. She is also an artist bio writer.
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 approach is highly conceptual, experimental, and is theoretically grounded in the alchemy of live performance and voice. She is currently directing her first play, “The Womb is a Room in Another person,” premiering June 4, 2025 with Montreal's FRINGE festival.
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Click here to read the feature on RODAISUN in Niche Magzine.
