»Avant-Garde Poetry, Aviation, Acrobats« (Anna Luhn, Eugene Ostashevsky)
Channel: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Date: 2024-03-05

Taking a closer look at Jean Cocteau’s Le Cap de Bonne Espérance (1919) and Kamensky’s Tango s korovami (1914), Anna [Anouk] Luhn (EXC Temporal Communities, Freie Universität Berlin) and poet Eugene OStashevsky draw connections between avant-garde poetics, dreams of aviation and acrobatic superhumanity.

This video is part of the project TANGO TRANSLATION TYPOGRAPHY, a joint project by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”
Virtual Exhibition @SBB: https://blog.sbb.berlin/tango-translation-typography/
More information: https://www.temporal-communities.de/tango-translation-typography