Ania Walwicz (1951 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist.
Apart from publication in numerous anthologies, journals and several books, her work has been performed by La Mama Theatre, the Sydney Chamber Choir and set to music by ChamberMade.
[2] A fellow performance artist, John Cage, is known for creating interesting pieces of music that stretch the traditional limits and practices of musicians.
John Cage told a story about how professional orchestras destroyed his instruments because they refused to play his work.
[3] In Walwicz's one-woman play Telltale, the writer uses the influence and experience of her childhood to convey her work.
“The play is populated with a lifetime of characters, some of whom have survived those early days when Walwicz did invent stories in the once- upon-a-time world of her childhood.
But you know I found ideas which are supposed to be also generated within Freud’s writing, of the Kabbalistic thought which has always interested me: the sort of magic of language, that language can multiply itself and form secret and unusual patterns, while everything is put away in the drawer, and things of this nature.
[8] In addition to creating poetry, Walwicz was also a performance artist, often recording many of her original works.
In a piece, 'Transgressing Language', Lyn McCredden writes: "This impulse to return to origins, to childhood and new beginnings, is a recurrent one in Walwicz's work.
But it can also be argued that poet and language seem to be coming from the same angle, in a relationship of concurrence, confronting the more conventional.