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Shared by CROWD: GLORYHOLE with Mara Genschel

Since mid 2013 a new literary format has been appearing in Forum Stadtpark, one that displays the shortest literary forms in public space: GLORYHOLE – messages from beyond.

This literary format is a so called canvas-screen-literary-magazine that appears in a new edition each month and is being projected to the outer canvas screen of FORUM STADTPARK every night. Through the day the current edition can be seen on a screen in a window next to the entrance to FORUM STADTPARK.

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Shared by CROWD: The European Year of Cultural Heritage

2018 will mark the celebration of our diverse cultural heritage across Europe. The European Year of Cultural Heritage project aimsto encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe’s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense of belonging to a common European space. Their slogan:

Our heritage: where the past meets the future.

In the starting year of the initiative a series of initiatives and events across Europe will begin to develop, to enable people to become closer to and more involved with their cultural heritage. Continue reading Shared by CROWD: The European Year of Cultural Heritage

Literature Away from Home: Jake Schneider on Translation, Little Magazines and More

This interview was first published at http://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de

Jake Schneider is the editor in chief of SAND, Berlin’s English literary journal. His translation of Ron Winkler’s poetry collection Fragmentierte Gewässer (Fragmented Waters) was released by Shearsman Books last October. He works as a freelance translator from German to English.

Interview by Chris Fenwick

Copyright by http://literaturwissenschaft-berlin.de

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Text-World–World-Text II: CROWD Symposium in Graz

a very very nice literatureboomboom named text-world–world-text II with international authors rad local brainmovers will be there shrewd talking during the day and the full program from a to z in the evening – Forum STADTPARK is yet again hosting a CROWD Symposium in Graz! Streamed live on the 10th of June: www.stream.mur.at/forum Continue reading Text-World–World-Text II: CROWD Symposium in Graz

Norbert Lange: To Say A Poem

Norbert Lange writing to Mathias Traxler about ‘Haut-Parleurs’, a literary event which was conceived and presented by both Harald Muenz and Mathias Traxler in the Lettrétage on the 23th February 2017 as part of the ‘CONT_TEXT’ project.  (For further information about the event and its preparation, see here: video, photos, artists’ discussions during preparation.)

Translation: Alice Bibbings
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Harald Muenz and Mathias Traxler in conversation

An extract from Harald Muenz and Mathais Traxler’s mail correspondence during the preparation stages of the CON_TEXT event ‘Haut-Parleurs’ on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th of February 2017 in the Lettrétage. (For further information about the event and its preparation, see here: video, photos, Norbert Lange’s letter to Mathias Traxler about the event.)

Translation: Alice Bibbings.

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CON_TEXT I: Cia Rinne and Gernot Wieland

Full house on Friday, 27.01.2017. The reason: the opening event of CON_TEXT, an event series which sets out to reimagine and thematise the format of readings.

The opening of our series was made up of the Swedish-Finnish author and sound artist Cia Rinne and the Austrian depicting and performing artist Gernot Wieland.

For all who’ve missed it, stills form their performance manifest hominis fabri und Ink in Milk:

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