19:00-19:45 LIVE READINGS (3) Erkut Tokman, Ansgar Allen, R.G. Vasicek
Sunday 27 October 2024
Erkut Tokman, Ansgar Allen, R.G. Vasicek
Erkut Tokman
Erkut Tokman is a Turkish poet, editor, translator, visual and performance artist. He studied acting and modern dance in London and Bucharest and staged at Windsor Royal Theatre (U.K). He is the founder of performance-based interdisciplinary art movement "Open Poetry Movement", which rejects classical performance concept based on text but instead create collectively post-performance text or art forms from performance interacting with public in public places. He performed internationally at various festivals and public places including LitVest-Timişoara, Poetry Cafe-London, Borders Festival-Venice, International Workshop Festival-London, and Malamut Performance Festival-Ostrava. He is the author of six verse collections and has recent poems in New Humanist and Poetry Buenos Aires. He is a member of Turkish and Italian P.E.N Centers as well as Exiled Writers-Ink. and Poetry Society of U.K .He won the Italian Ministry of Culture Translation and Quasimodo Jaci Poetry Awards. He lives and works as an engineer, currently in Ostrava.
Ansgar Allen
Ansgar Allen is editor-in-chief at Erratum Press and author of books including a short history of Cynicism (MIT Press) and the novels, Black Vellum (Schism2), Plague Theatre (Equus Press) The Wake and the Manuscript, (Anti-Oedipus Press), Wretch (Schism Neuronics), and The Sick List (Boiler House Press). He is based in Sheffield, UK.
R.G. Vasicek
R.G. Vasicek is a lo-fi artist & machine elf in NYC. Recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship. Vasicek's books include AUGENBLICK, MACHINE ELF, 404 ERROR, THE DEFECTORS, MACHINE, CYBORG, & the anti-novella JÖRGENSEN AND THE MACHINE.