A lyrical in(ter)vention in urban space by Matthias Göritz

published on occasion of the project Grazer Poesieautomaten from the poet Matthias Göritz and Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark, im öffentlichen Raum Graz, 28.05.2021-03.02.2022

In his much cited Nobel Prize speech of 1987, the Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky demands that poems should be available at every petrol station and classics in cheap editions. They were the mental fuel for the day, a "colossal accelerator of consciousness, of thought, of perception of the world".

The Institute for Art in Public Space Styria and the internationally renowned poet and translator Matthias Göritz take up these ideas and bring poetry into the urban space of the literary experimental city of Graz. Three vending machines, normally filled with children's toys, refreshing sweets or condoms, turn into lyrical spatial in(ter)ventions and dispense poetry.

Texts by Elisabeth Fiedler und Matthias Göritz

Poems by Omar Khir Alanam, Gökçenur Ç., Miljana Cunta, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Milan Dekleva, Florian Dietmaier, Efe Duyan, Julia Fiedorczuk, Valerie Fritsch, Anja Golob, Madara Gruntmane, Esther Gschweitl, Fabjan Hafner, Volha Hapeyeva, Lisa Höllebauer, Julia Knaß, Edvard Kocbek, Alfred Kolleritsch, Aljaž Koprivnikar, Srečko Kosovel, Maruša Krese, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Precious Nnebedum, Anna-Lena Obermoser, Gonca Özmen, Susmita Paul, Ana Pepelnik, Jana Radičević, Monika Rinck, Tomaž Šalamun, Lisa Schantl, Ferdinand Schmatz, Peter Semolič , Tone Škrjanec, Aleš Šteger, Lucija Stupica, Christoph Szalay, Kinga Tóth, Andreas Unterweger, Zmicier Vishnioŭ, Uroš Zupan

Edited by: Elisabeth Fiedler und Matthias Göritz

Publisher: Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Printing: Druckwerk6 (ehem. Druckerei Bachernegg)

Design: Michael Neubacher
ISBN: 978-3-901109-78-2

Language: German/English, Poems in German, English, Croatian, Slovenian, Turkish, Polish, Latvian, Belarusian, Ancient Greek
Pages: 119 p.

Available: Online, at the publisher FORUM STADTPARK, in the Kunsthaus-Shop Graz and at the Institut für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark (Marienplatz 1/1, 8020 Graz)