By Adriana Kobor (Belgium & Netherlands)
Hungarian by birth, Adriana Kobor is a writer active today in Belgium and the Netherlands. Much of her work is written in English. I became aware of Adriana Kobor's writing and photography via the visual poet Luc Fierens with whom she has collaborated. (Notably, she has also collaborated with Hungarian artist and writer Jozsef Biro.) Some readers might recall visual poetry by Fierens was featured on the first Asemic Front. I hope we can see more on Af2.
I find Adriana Kobor's writing engaging and highly original. An excellent sample can be found at Otoliths, which you can access via the link below. Kobor's writing has a mesmerizing power, which I have not seen since Kathy Acker. Kobor might hold some affinity to the New Narrative writers in the USA with whom Acker is sometimes associated. We can only wait to see more of Adriana Kobor's work and hope, in fact, she might do more than expand a promising strain in the Anglo postavant. I believe she has the potential to offer new directions and vitality to writing in English.
https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/03/adriana-kobor.html
The purpose of Asemic Front 2, of course, is the intersection of visual poetry, asemics and collaboration. So I will not pursue Kobor's more conventional poetry and prose in this post, but - again - I recommend it highly.
In Otoliths, Adriana Kobor states her intention is to "expand the boundaries of language." Indeed she is achieving this in numerous ways including the creation of works that can be considered visual poetry. She combines image and text to interrogate the nature of language and the creation of meaning. In this AF2 installment, I present three pieces that I believe represent her exciting image-texts. Her methods range from concrete poetry to found material documented via photography. She moves effortlessly among the genres. Kobor's vispo is an extension of her writing style and spirit.
- DVS
Visual poetry by Adriana Kobor
By Adriana Kobor
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