Kostincova, Jana
Poet on Facebook is more than a poet. Writing poetry as a poetical / political performance
The paper will explore the strategies Roman Osminkin uses to construct and perform his multiple identities using facebook as well as other internet platforms.
Roman Osminkin is a contemporary Russian poet, performance artist, curator, and an art theorist, based in Saint Petersburg. He conducts research in contemporary actionism and performance, is a member of the editorial team of the [Translit] magazine, was a founding member of The Laboratory of Poetic Actionism (2008-2012).
Researchers usually situate his poetics between the tradition of Moscow conceptualism, especially its leading poet Dmitrii Prigov, and the 1920s Left Front of the Arts (see Mark Lipovetsky. A dilemma for the contemporary artist. The “revolutionary pessimism” of Roman Osminkin). This paper however will focus on Osminkin’s projects connected with Techno Poetry group, a group that mixes poetic texts with techno, rave, tries different modes of speaking and singing and whose vocalist and ideologist Osminkin claims to be. The group explores queer aesthetics, their texts frequently have a feminist accent, denounce violence and toxic communication.
Thus, the paper will explore the texts, performances that thematize feminism, queer aesthetics, and non-normative bodies. It will discuss the strategies the author uses in his web-based performances (FB, youtube), combining verbal as well as visual tools, creating the persona of a poet, a feminist, activist, Romochka, and at the same time using irony to deconstruct these images of self. Attention will be paid to Osminkin’s experiment with different media: body and text, voice, and language.
Jana Kostincova holds a master’s degree in Russian language and literature and English language and literature, and a PhD in Russian literature from Masaryk University, Brno. For her PhD thesis she did an extensive research on Russian émigré poetry written in the 1920s and 1930s in Czechoslovakia. She teaches at the Faculty of Education, her courses include 20th and 21st century Russian literature, poetry of the first wave of Russian emigration, Russian digital literature. Her research interests include contemporary Russian poetry, Russian literature in the context of digital media, Russian feminist poetry, multilingual and translingual poetry. She has published widely on Russian émigré poetry in the context of modernism and avant-garde, contemporary Russian poetry, digital poetry. In 2017 she was awarded a research project funded by the Czech Science Foundation Russian Transmedia Poetry as a Model of Literature in Postdigital Era. The research of Russian transmedia poetry resulted in a book words_interfaces. Russian Postdigital Poetry published in Czech in 2020.
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