
The Text
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Katharina Marszewski(Artist)
Falschrum Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2021
Book
Novelty book
53 pages
978-3-9820779-3-2 (ISBN)
Description
"He lifts her from the floor and turns around.
He laughs.
She laughs too.
He keeps spinning.
Faster.
She swoons and loses consciousness. She breaks apart, bit by bit.
The head snaps first and quickly falls."
In her long poem The Text, Nora Amin uses a surrealistic form of poetic writing to deconstruct gender roles, sexual trauma and patriarchal authority, while composing a humane story of creation.
This book is the result of a collaboration between Amin, the visual artist Katharina Marszewski, and the graphic design studio Eps51. Marszewski responded to The Text by creating cryptic drawings that reveal the movements central to Amin's choreographic poetry. Bilingual script and artwork interpenetrate in Eps51's unique design, which allows readers to determine the reading direction of the book, depending on their preferred language (Arabic/English).
The Text is accompanied by an afterword by Christian Junge, scholar of Arabic literature.
He laughs.
She laughs too.
He keeps spinning.
Faster.
She swoons and loses consciousness. She breaks apart, bit by bit.
The head snaps first and quickly falls."
In her long poem The Text, Nora Amin uses a surrealistic form of poetic writing to deconstruct gender roles, sexual trauma and patriarchal authority, while composing a humane story of creation.
This book is the result of a collaboration between Amin, the visual artist Katharina Marszewski, and the graphic design studio Eps51. Marszewski responded to The Text by creating cryptic drawings that reveal the movements central to Amin's choreographic poetry. Bilingual script and artwork interpenetrate in Eps51's unique design, which allows readers to determine the reading direction of the book, depending on their preferred language (Arabic/English).
The Text is accompanied by an afterword by Christian Junge, scholar of Arabic literature.
More details
Series
Language
Other
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Product notice
Loose leaf - sheets & binder
Illustrations
Zeichnungen, Fotografien
Dimensions
Height: 22 cm
Width: 16 cm
Weight
203 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-9820779-3-2 (9783982077932)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Autorin, Theaterregisseurin, Choreographin, Tänzerin
Arabist
Artist
Künstlerin, Modedesignerin