Phonopoetics

“Phonopoetics” is the first ever survey of seminal Hungarian artist Katalin Ladik’s sonic efforts. A thing of beauty, drawing from the period between 1968 and 1993, its two stunning sides shatter the lines between performance, the spoken word, fine art, and experimental music, offering the terms to rethink how each is understood.
Born in 1942, Katalin Ladik has lived a wild and multifaceted creative life — beginning primarily as a poet of the written word, expanding into experimental theatre during the mid-1970s, and ultimately becoming an artist whose practice also incorporates sound and visual poetry, performance art, experimental music, audio plays, happenings, mail art, collage, and photography, built around visual and vocal expression, as well as movement and gesture.
In the words of visionary sound poet Henri Chopin, Ladik is “a great, magical voice.” Alga Marghen’s issue of “Phonopoetics” places this little heard, and profoundly important artist into the center of you consciousness where she will no doubt remain. A vital entry in the field of sound art, historic Eastern European experimental practice, and sound poetry. Introduction by Henri Chopin.