Where can poetry be found? Inspired by the artist Natalie Czech, our fellow students transform complex texts into poetry. They choose between excerpts from two different works: Critique of Judgment (1793) by Immanuel Kant and Gaming Instinct (2004) by Juli Zeh. How does the language of the texts influence the resulting poems? What new treasures are discovered?
→ Select (no more than 20) words and mark them based on:
a) Their meaning
b) Their sound
c) Just because
→ Select (no more than 20) words and mark them based on:
a) A theme of your choice, such as love, system, repetition and
b) Visual and/or contextual meaning
→ Read the words one after the other
a) In normal reading direction (top to bottom, left to right) or
b) In a random order
To do the latter, rearrange the selected words and use punctuation marks to give them meaning.