Poesiomat (Poetry-automat)

Poesiomat is a poetry automat/ jukebox by alternative Prague cafeteriaman Ondřej Kobza.

Kobza does not want the city to be built centrally, he wants the city to be co-created by people.

The poesiomat is conceived as a statue, which is based on traditional reporting devices such as the bullhorn, gramophone and megaphone.

One poem in the menu is by Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, (1930 – 2007) who was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground. He writing texts for The Plastic People of the Universe. His non-conformism brought him into conflict with the totalitarian communist regime in Czechoslovakia. His works were circulated only as samizdat. His philosophical work concerns ontological. He attempts to show the relevance of ontology without any substance or grounding.

 

Tags: literature, automata, sculptures, art, memento mori, monuments