Video Poetry as Recreation and Remediation of Oral Performance in the Work of Kgafela oa Magogodi and Chirikure Chirikure.

Autor(en)

Ricarda de Haas

Abstrakt

This article introduces two examples of mediatized poetry to analyze the interrelation of live performance, video, and (digital) technology: I mike what I like, a spoken word film by South African poet Kgafela oa Magogodi and filmmaker Jyoti Mistry, and Directions, a poem by Zimbabwean poet Chirikure Chirikure remediated as a video installation by Austrian artist Wolfgang Spahn. By relying on Bolter and Grusin's theory on remediation and Philip Auslander's concept of mediatized performances, the article aims to shed light on how media influence the content and form of poetry as well as the space of performance, and may even affect the performer’s use of body and voice. The question will be discussed as to what extent artistic collaboration may lead to reinterpretation and recreation of the original poem.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Africa Today

Band

64

Seiten

75-90

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

0001-9887

Publikationsdatum

2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602003 Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, 602001 Afrikanistik, 602008 Anglistik, 605007 Digital Humanities

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/video-poetry-as-recreation-and-remediation-of-oral-performance-in-the-work-of-kgafela-oa-magogodi-and-chirikure-chirikure(c6478148-0d3b-4d19-b15a-0fa4d495b87d).html