OEI #90–91: Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology. Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968–1983 offers the first English language overview of the history of concrete and visual poetry production in socialist Yugoslavia between 1968 and 1983. By focusing on mass-produced examples of concrete poetry, this publication presents these poetic experiments as organically linked to social movements, critical theories, and youth cultural revolutions. In his extensive introduction, Sezgin Boynik, the guest editor of this special issue of OEI, discusses concrete and visual poetry in socialist Yugoslavia as an uneven and combined development, and emphasizes its confrontational and organizational aspects. By means of interviews, translations, reproductions, and theoretical and historical statements, OEI #90-91 offers a picture of a very lively scene of concrete and visual poetry in Yugoslavia, which unfortunately is not as recognized internationally as it would deserve. Hoping that OEI #90-91 could contribute to this task in a substantial way, we present episodes from the early years of OHO formation and its complex theories of words and things; an interview with Rastko Močnik on programmed art and political formalism; militant polemics of Goran Babić; Signalist contradictions; subjective structural devices of Judita Šalgo; zaum experiments of Vojislav Despotov; detective meta-texts of Slavoj Žižek; poetic self-management studies of Vujica Rešin Tucić; a feminist historicisation of Ažin school for experimental poetry; democratisation of visual poetry by Westeast; selections from special issues of the journals Pitanja, Problemi, Ulaznica, Dometi, Delo, Koraci, Vidik, Pegaz, and many other materials translated here for the first time and presented in one publication.
*OEI #90-91: Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology. Concrete and Visual Poetry in Yugoslavia, 1968–1983 *
304 pages, 2022
Ed. Sezgin Boynik
Innehåll
3 Sezgin Boynik, Introduction to Sickle of Syntax & Hammer of Tautology
19 Breaking point of structures (interview with Rastko Močnik)
26 Rastko Močnik, Revolucija je brez projekta
33 Problemi Katalog
Milenko Matanović, 34 40
Naško Križnar, 35
Matjaž Hanžek, 39
Slavoj Žižek, The spy who loved me, 41
Vojin Kovač-Chubby, 43
44 Problemi Programska umetnost
55 Pericarežeracirep
Milenko Matanović, 57 58 60
Vojin Kovač-Chubby, 58 59 61
Matjaž Hanžek, 59 60 61
Slavoj Žižek, Cartesianische meditationes, 62
66 Problemi, no. 94 (1970)
Franci Zagoričnik, Texts on literature, 64
Milenko Matanović, 68
Matjaž Hanžek, 69
Orest Zagoričnik, 69
Marko Švabić, Manifest, 70
Marko Švabić, A manifesto, 72
73 Problemi literatura
Tomaž Kralj; Matjaž Hanžek, 75
Bálint Szombathy, 76 87
Branko Novak, 77
Vojislav Despotov, 78
Biljana Tomić, 79
Polona Hanžek, 80
Ifigenija Zagoričnik, 80 81
Pavel Lužan, 81
Franci Zagoričnik, 82
Zvonimir Mrkonjić, 84
Blaž Ogorevc, 85
Ottó Tolnai, 85
Zoltán Magyar, 86
Tomaž Kralj & Franci Zagoričnik, 88
Igor Likar, 89
90 Problemi, no. 1–2 (1975)
Jolka Milić, 91
Franci Zagoričnik & Bálint Szombathy, 92
93 Pitanja, no. 12 (1970)
Darko Kolibaš, Hoc Igitur, Corpus, 94
99 Pesnik koji veruje u liniju / Poet with a line. A discussion between Goran Babić, Sezgin Boynik and Ratibor Trivunac
105 Goran Babić, Ulomci Govora sa Tribine
108 Goran Babić, Matična knjiga
115 Vujica Rešin Tucić
Immediate art production in self-management society, 115
The status of the writer depends on self-management, 118
The throw of the gaze (dice) will never abolish an eze (chance), 119
To create new forms of organizing, 121
I will not take care of other people’s sheep, 122
125 Dušan Grlja, Glossary of workers’ self-management in Yugoslavia
128 Vujica Rešin Tucić, Reform Grotesk
139 Vujica Rešin Tucić, Struganje Mašt
141 Signalism
Signalism, 141
Regulae Poesis, 142
Signalist poetry proper (visual poetry), 144
Gestural Signalist poetry, 144
A phenomenology of beings and things, 145
Signalist drawings and computer poems, 148
Signalist postcards, 151
Signalism at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, 152
Miroljub Todorović’s computational works at Dom Omladine, Belgrade, 155
Miroljub Todorović, from Naravno Mleko Plamen Pčela, 160
Miroljub Todorović, from Signalizam, Gradina, 163
Koraci, no. 1-2 (1976), Signalizam, 166
170 Dejan Sretenović, Traffic signs taken for poetry
172 Oskar Davičo & Predrag Nešković, Strip stop
179 Theory as history: Association for Women’s Initiative School of Experimental Poetry (interview with Dubravka Đurić)
182 Judita Šalgo, Dictionary
184 Judita Šalgo, Forms
195 Sezgin Boynik, On Vojislav Despotov and Dnjižepta bibil zizra uhunt*
197 Vojislav Despotov, Dnjižepta bibil zizra uhunt*
203 Slavko Matković, Knjiga
204 Denis Poniž, Introduction to Slavko Matković
205 Slavko Matković, selection from Knjiga
211 Ilaria Bignotti & Jasna Jakšić, Paolo Scheggi, Oplà-stick, Zagreb 1969
212 Oplà-stick: Passion according to Paolo Scheggi
214 Photographs from Oplà-stick, Zagreb 1969
218 bit international, no. 5–6 (1969)
Franci Zagoričnik, 219
Matjaž Hanžek, 220
I.G. Plamen, 221
The OHO, 222
Paolo Scheggi, Oplà-stick, 223
224 Franci Zagoričnik, Visual literature is not a place for verbal revolution
226 Milan Osrajnik, A spatial-temporal way of seeing
228 Vidik, no. 7-8-9 (1972)
Vojin Kovać-Chubby, 229
Nuša & Srečo Dragan, 229
Polona Hanžek, 230
Milenko Matanović, 230
Pavel Lužan, 230
I. G. Plamen & Marko Pogačnik, 231
Ifigenija Zagoričnik, 232
Franci Zagoričnik, 232
233 Dometi, no. 5 (1978)
Ivan Rogić-Nehajev, 234
Zvonimir Mrkonjić, 235
Milorad Stojević, 236
Josip Štosić; Neša Paripović, 237
238 Ulaznica, no. 21, Panorama Jugoslovenske Konceptualne, Vizuelne i Typoezije (1971)
Vladan Radovanović; Orest Zagoričnik 238
Biljana Tomić; Vujica Rešin Tucić 239
240 Kultura, no. 13–14 (1971)
Žarko Rošulj (visual works)
244 Pegaz, no. 4–5 (1975)
Goran Đorđević, Processes in a square system (statement), 245
Goran Đorđević, Processes in a square system, 246
256 Delo Signalizam (1975)
Isle & Pierre Garnier, 257
I. G. Plamen, 257
Friedrich Hahn, 257
Matjaž Hanžek, 257
Ernst Jandl, 257
Dobrivoje Jevtić, 257
Miyo Kawashima, 258
Miroslav Klivar, 258
Ferdinand Kriwet, 258
Natalia Lach Lachowicz, 258
Milivoje Pavlović, 258
Yüksel Pazarkaya, 258
Vlada Stojiljković, 259
Josip Stošić, 259
Miroljub Todorović, 259
Biljana Tomić, 259
Endre Tot, 259
260 Denis Poniž, A text for WE DE [Westeast–Delo] 5
262 Delo, no. 4 [Westeast–Delo] (1982)
Attila Csernik, 262
Vratislav Novak, 262
Petr Ševčik, 262
Dušan Zidar, 263
Andrej Tišma, 263
Pavel Rudolf, 263
Slavko Matković, 264
Nejč Slapar, 264
Jovan Zivlak, 264
Gordana Kunaver, 265
Deniz Poniž, 265
Zoran Mirković, 265
Dobrica Kamperelić, 265
266 Pitanja Westeast, no. 1 (1983)
Ifigenija Zagoričnik, 267
Franci Zagoričnik, 267
Živko Kladnik, 267
Katalin Ladik, 268
Dobrica Kamperelić, 269
Slavko Matković, 269
Nejč Slapar, 269
Ivo Antič, 269
Milenko Pajić, 270
Zvonimir Mrkonjić, 270
Vlado Martek, 270
Matjaž Hanžek, 270
Dušan Zidar, 270
OM-produkcija, 270
271 VVV (Verbo-Voco-Visual) Westeast
Vladan Radovanović, Verbo-Voco-Visual, 272
Westeast VVV, 274
Vlasta Šilar, 274
Vladan Radovanović, 274
Vinko Möderndorfer, 275
Nuša & Srečo Dragan, 275
Miroslav Klivar, 275
Miko Valent; Marta Tišma, 276
Gordana Tokić, 276
Gordana Kunaver, 277
Egist Zagoričnik, 277 278
Blaž Ogorevc; Andrej Tišma, 278
279 Ifigenija Zagoričnik, 4 poems
283 Orest Zagoričnik, Štirideset del
285 Vujica Rešin Tucić, Word exploded: Borben Vladović
287 Borben Vladović, 3 x 7 = 21 (Pjesme)
291 Miroljub Kešeljević, X-Boat
297 Miroljub Kešeljević, Note on X-Boat
297 Žarko Rošulj, On X-Boat
298 Antun B. Kolumbić, Prašumom pisaćeg stroja
301 Vladan Radovanović, Vokovizuel
302 Vojislav Despotov, Čekić Tautologije