Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization / Audioliterale Lyrik zwischen Performance und Mediatisierung
May 11.-13., 2023
Conception and organization by Marc Matter, Dipl., Dr. Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Wolff, M. Sc. (SP1)
The second international and interdisciplinary conference of the ERC project "Poetry in the Digital Age" will be held on the topic "Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization" from May 11-13, 2023 at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg.
The current popularity of poetry has to do with new forms of poetry performance that are often closely connected to processes of mediatization: live formats such as spoken word and poetry slam continue to attract large audiences, recordings of readings and performances are shared on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, and sound poetry experimentally explores the potentials of digital technology. Most recently, the Covid-19 pandemic led to manifold attempts to move poetry readings and discussions to streaming and online platforms. These developments shed new light on discussions about the relationship between "liveness" and "mediatization", examining the role of the (self-)staging of the "poet-performer" (Julia Lajta-Novak); raise questions about the relationship between different adaptions of poetic works in different media; and, finally, challenge established definitions of poetry.
The conference will focus on, among other topics: the techno-poetic environments of audioliteral poetry and its posthuman orality, the performative embodiments and multisensory encounters of performed poetry, the media transgressions and transcriptive movements of recorded poetry performance and the new networks of poetic activism. The conference will be held in English and German.
Conference program
Location: Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstraße 116, 20249 Hamburg
Thursday, May 11th
2.00 pm
Welcome and Introduction by Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien, Marc Matter and Clara Cosima Wolff
Panel I: Media Transgressions: Transcriptive Movements of Performed Poetry
2.30 pm
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak (Universität Wien): Authenticity and Activism in Spoken Word Poetry: Staging the Self across Media >Abstract (PDF)
3.15 pm
Annegret Märten, M.A. (King's College, London/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Voicing Vulnerability: Mediating Violence, Victimisation, and Female Subjectivity in Nora Gomringer's monster poetry >Abstract (PDF)
Coffee break
4.30 pm
Dr. Johannes Ullmaier (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz): Sound Poetry im Medienspagat. Zur Wechselspannung von Innovation und Permanenz in zeitgenössischen Werkformen am Beispiel Cia Rinne >Abstract (PDF)
5.15 pm
Katharina Mevissen, M.A. (Freie Universität Berlin): Performative Typografie, akustische Visualität: Gesprochene und gebärdensprachliche Lyrik sichtbar machen >Abstract (PDF)
8.30 pm
Performance: Kinga Tóth
Location: Nachtasyl at Thalia Theater, Alstertor, 20095 Hamburg
Friday, May 12th
Panel II: Techno-Poetic Environments: Digital Processing and Posthuman Orality
10.00 am
Prof. Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University): Oceanic Digital Poetry: Paradigms for 21st Century Poetics >Abstract (PDF)
10.45 am
Dr. Shalini Sengupta (Universität Wien): "I Stop Being Human": Tracing the Radiophonic Turn in British Poetry in Performance >Abstract (PDF)
Coffee break
12.00 pm
Prof. Magali Nachtergael (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne): Prosthetic Poetry: Sound and Media Extensions of the Body in Performance >Abstract (PDF)
12.45 pm
Vadim Keylin, PhD (Universität Hamburg): I sing the mind electric: Performing AI poetry >Abstract (PDF)
Lunch break
Panel III: Performative Embodiments: Multisensory Poetry Performances
3.00 pm
Dr. Nataliya Gorbina (Universität Konstanz): The Ekphrastic Event in a Postprint Culture: Spoken-Word Poetry and its Poetics of Vision >Abstract (PDF)
3.45 pm
Dr. Holly Pester (University of Essex): The Shelter and the Stage: Poetry's melos in the Contemporary Habitats of Digital Systems, Housing Precarity and Work Rhythms >Abstract (PDF)
Coffee break
5.00 pm
Clara Cosima Wolff (Universität Hamburg): Visuelle Mündlichkeit und lautlose Gedichte: Formen der Gebärdensprachkunst >Abstract (PDF)
Saturday, May 13th
Panel IV: Poetic Activism: New Networks and the Public
10.00 am
Julia Lückl, B.A. (Universität Wien): #blacklivesmatter. Zur Performativität des Erinnerns in Precious Nnebedums und Stefanie-Lahya Aukongos audioliteraler Protest Poetry auf Instagram >Abstract (PDF)
10.45 am
PD Dr. Martina Pfeiler (Universität Wien): (Post-)Covid Intermissions: Live-Streaming Poetry Slams in the UK in the „New Digital ‚Public‘ Sphere“ >Abstract (PDF)
Coffee break
12.00 pm
Rachele Gusella, M.A. (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Poetry “Bombing”: from Streets to Social Media >Abstract (PDF)
13.00 pm
Conclusion and Farewell
If you would like to visit the conference, please register by sending an email to Clara Cosima Wolff( clara.cosima.wolff"AT"uni-hamburg.de).
The visit of the conference is free of charge. The visit of the performance of Kinga Tóth is not free of charge, for more information see the website of the Thalia Theater.
CfP „Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization“