Poems

Ježenje

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This poem was developed in April 2020 as part of 'Ježenje' online/zoom-workshop with Croatian poet Neva Lukić and performance artist Josipa Bubaš, during which we’ve contemplated the sensation of 'goose-bumps' (‘ježenje’ in Croatian language). For more about the project, you can listen to this podcast.

The poem is written in form of a collage and it can be read differently (in different order) each time. 

One possible reading:

This poem was developed as part of 'Ježenje' online/zoom-workshop with Croatian poet Neva Lukić and performance artist Josipa Bubaš, during which we have explored the concept and the feeling of 'goose-bumps' (‘ježenje’ in Croatian language). Held in April 2020. The poem is written in form of a collage and it can be read differently (in different order) each time. See the collage here: Language is Croatian. Another poem written during the same workshop is available here: https://vimeo.com/411371511

As part of the same workshop, I have also created this stream-of-consciousness ‘walking poem’:

Made during and inspired by 'Ježenje' online/zoom-workshop with Croatian poet Neva Lukić and performance artist Josipa Bubaš, during which we have explored the concept and the feeling of ježenje (Croatian word for 'goose-bumps'). One day during the workshop, I went for a walk and thoughts about 'ježenje' emerged. So they wouldn't get lost before I return to my desk to write them down, I decided to turn on my phone audio recorder. This is a random (stream of consciousness) succession of thoughts and a surrealist (automatic) walking poem. In 'Language and the Unknown', Julia Kristeva writes that "body is a source of language." Philosopher Michel Serres put it similarly when he wrote: "Language is already in bodies." While walking I allowed for the movement to generate words. After I recorded the audio, I thought of filming the rest of my walk. I was not aware how long the audio was but it turned out it was exactly the length of the rest of my walk. There was a perfect (albeit unplanned) synchronicity between the two. The language is Croatian. Made in Sydney, Australia. The whole thing was made on 21 April 2020.