Wortbild & Buch. Literatur im Kontext der visuellen Kunst. Lesung mit Olav Amende und Leon Skottnik

Word Image & Book. Literature in the context of visual art.
Two books, two synergies between literature and visual art. A reading of the long poem erosion by Olav Amende and Leon Skottnik's Eigengrau. Art in the text space.

In the long poem 'erosion' by Olav Amende (Leipzig), the daily routine of a city accelerates. The events intensify and overlap, then something starts to slip. between / white clover and field clover and / sweet clover, / the buzzing of bumblebees and / the buzzing of bees / the buzzing of / as a baler presses field grass / through a press channel and compresses it / into round bales into square bales / as they throw cups and plates under cups in the driveway of a / home / and the smartphones vibrate / and the vending machines sparkle / and they extinguish / extinguish / extinguish. In several attempts, erosion traces the opposing dynamics of our social life. Everything is interconnected, everything wants to be meticulously recorded. But things take on a life of their own, the signs dissolve. Juxtaposed with the poem and interwoven with it are the graphics by Souxie Bibrach.

'Eigengrau. Kunst im Textraum' by Leon Skottnik (Cologne) is a collection of literary texts that have been created to accompany various works of modern and contemporary art. Sculptures, installations, light art and land art are presented in their own form. The central question here is what possibilities literature offers to make art experienceable in a new way. Visual art is not viewed here, but conveyed through language and perceived as mental images. These images develop a life of their own in the reader, embedded in stories that provide new impulses for their perception.

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