Christian Bök, The Kazimir Effect (2018, 2020)

Christian Bök is one of the founders of Conceptualism (the literary movement that explores the ‘limit-cases’ of writing after the advent of the Internet) and for his talk, Bök plans to offer a brief intro to his career as a poet, describing two projects that have earned him global renown.

Christian will discuss the role of monochromic abstraction in the recent legacy of painting, especially works that feature only the colour ‘white’ in their palette and showcase the influence of these paintings upon the poetics of his own literary movement. This will be illustrated by Bok’s work, The Kazimir Effect, currently displayed in the JAHM apartment. He will also perform poetry against the backdrop of these images.

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the apartment.