Luc Fierens
ON SIGNALISM "There is only desire and the social. Nothing else."
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Miroljub Todorovic
SIGNALIST POETRY PROPER
(VISUAL POETRY)
1. One of the principal tasks of signalist poetry proper (visual poetry) is to
overcome verbal poetic expression.
2. This kind of poetry aims at a gradual de-verbalization and de-semantics of
poetry.
3. Given the new communication system where the written (national)
language loses an increasingly great deal of its importance, it is quite natural
for the poet, facing a language incapable of ensuring universal
communication (the kind required by the electronic era), to resort to the
more universal and considerably more communicative visual language.
13. In addition to letters or whole words as surpassing structures, the
expanse of a signalist poem can also be filled with other signs, electronic,
technical and other symbols, drawings, collage, photographs etc., which
exist in the defined space of the poem creating verbal-visual meta/linguistic
constellations.
(from the book “Signalism”, Nis, 1979.)
Comments Luc Fierens
This is for me the excerpt which is important to me from the approach
to "signalist poetry". Creating a "universal", open "visual" language with
visual writing connected to reality. I like the idea of "everything in motion"
like some Futurists (referring to the works & experiments of Fortunato
Depero (artists' book with bolts & postcard/mail-art...) but I am not a fanatic
to follow science in the future. Scientists now seem to be only interested in
clones, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Even our images on the
screens become hyper real and I don't like this. Visual poets must always
seek the "détournement" to search for the "truth" , the true image. Because
now because of mass-media & digital photography most images are false or
treated so the real is lost so we as artists must seek , search, … and keep
looking for the initial images which were taken instead of the images after
Photoshop. This is a big issue in contemporary photography, advertising
even some forms of communication-art so there is my working field for
visual writing.
ON SIGNALISM "There is only desire and the social. Nothing else."
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Miroljub Todorovic
SIGNALIST POETRY PROPER
(VISUAL POETRY)
1. One of the principal tasks of signalist poetry proper (visual poetry) is to
overcome verbal poetic expression.
2. This kind of poetry aims at a gradual de-verbalization and de-semantics of
poetry.
3. Given the new communication system where the written (national)
language loses an increasingly great deal of its importance, it is quite natural
for the poet, facing a language incapable of ensuring universal
communication (the kind required by the electronic era), to resort to the
more universal and considerably more communicative visual language.
13. In addition to letters or whole words as surpassing structures, the
expanse of a signalist poem can also be filled with other signs, electronic,
technical and other symbols, drawings, collage, photographs etc., which
exist in the defined space of the poem creating verbal-visual meta/linguistic
constellations.
(from the book “Signalism”, Nis, 1979.)
Comments Luc Fierens
This is for me the excerpt which is important to me from the approach
to "signalist poetry". Creating a "universal", open "visual" language with
visual writing connected to reality. I like the idea of "everything in motion"
like some Futurists (referring to the works & experiments of Fortunato
Depero (artists' book with bolts & postcard/mail-art...) but I am not a fanatic
to follow science in the future. Scientists now seem to be only interested in
clones, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Even our images on the
screens become hyper real and I don't like this. Visual poets must always
seek the "détournement" to search for the "truth" , the true image. Because
now because of mass-media & digital photography most images are false or
treated so the real is lost so we as artists must seek , search, … and keep
looking for the initial images which were taken instead of the images after
Photoshop. This is a big issue in contemporary photography, advertising
even some forms of communication-art so there is my working field for
visual writing.
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