quo vadis bodypainting?
poetry and humor. actually. but not a symposium.
lectures/readings/performances/films
19 to 22 june 2015
festival by sfd in association with literaturhaus wien & top kino
quo vadis bodypainting?
poetry and humour. actually. but not a symposium.
a festival by vienna poetry school
in association with literaturhaus wien and top kino
fri., 19 june until mon., 22 june 2015
lectures/readings/performances/films
when was the last time you burst out laughing while reading a book? are there poems that cause braying laughter? even a "poetic act" that makes one snort with laughter and brings tears to ones eyes? all of this exists, but: not often enough!
on four evenings we will explore the "humorous" in poetry – in doing so, our extended definition of poetry will go beyond the purely literary and therefore we will also poach the fields of film, video art and performance.
quo vadis bodypainting? does not isolate humor along the educated middle-class' lines into "elevated" and "cheap", but is looking for the poetically unified in the disparate – and finds: trash in old greek, "poésie sonore" in pop clips, dirty jokes in academic discourse, wit in panic utterances and the 'gesamtkunstwerk' wenzel storch!
fritz ostermayer
(artistic director of the vienna poetry school and curator of quo vadis bodypainting?)
the festival is held in german.
>> program (in german)
