On Tuesday 17 November at 12:05 two talks on avant-garde poetry, print experiments and artists’ books in the 20th century will be given in the lecture hall of Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3, in connection with the exhibition “dadadieterdúr – samruni orðlistar og myndlistar” (dadadieterdúr – the fusion of verbal and visual art): https://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/news/824/56/dadadieterdur
Benedikt Hjartarson gives a talk he calls “‘Every page must explode’: on the avant-garde, the making of poems and print experiments”
and Vigdís Rún Jónsdóttir discusses a mapping of concrete poetry in Iceland in the years 1955–1975.
On Tuesday 24 November at the same time, Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir will give a talk on the concrete poems of Óskar Árni Óskarsson and Sjón, and Ólafur Engilbertsson will discuss Dadaism and the publications of Medúsa and Smekkleysa.
The lectures are held in cooperation with the “Research Centre for Avant-Garde Studies” at the University of Iceland (http://avantgarde.hi.is/)
Everyone welcome!
