The location of each particle is only temporary. Processuality in Katarína Kucbelová’s poetry Cover Image

Umiestnenie každej častice je len dočasné. Procesuálnosť v poézii Kataríny Kucbelovej
The location of each particle is only temporary. Processuality in Katarína Kucbelová’s poetry

Author(s): Viliam Nádaskay
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Slovak Literature, Phenomenology, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV
Keywords: contemporary Slovak poetry; Katarína Kucbelová; body; process; phenomenology; conceptual art

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the second book of poetry by Katarína Kucbelová (b. 1979) Šport ([Sport] 2006). The collection portrays the world as an ongoing process which transforms everything – living and inanimate, abstract and concrete. The processual character of the world in Sport focuses specifically on the body. The reading outlined in the article handles processuality in connection with themes, motifs, and philosophy of life, deriving the essential points of thinking about corporeality from phenomenology. Since Kucbelová’s poetry often refers to the principles of visual and conceptual art, a similar interpretive procedure can be applied to the reading of her writing: her poems connote various spheres of life and in the creative process, she combines these into a more or less unified thought world. Interpretive directions thus variously rely on the idea of processuality and develop it artistically: these encompass such areas as conceptual art, phenomenology, meditation, biology, or somatic aesthetics. Broadly, these insights can be applied to the author’s first three books of poetry, which can be laboriously described as a processual trilogy, since they all manifest an approach to the various spheres of life as processes.

  • Issue Year: 71/2024
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 278-290
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovak
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