Perpetuum Mobile. Non-places in Blixa Bargeld’s journals
Perpetuum Mobile. Non-places in Blixa Bargeld’s journals
Author(s): Anna R. BurzyńskaContributor(s): Małgorzata Olsza (Translator)
Subject(s): Music, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: Blixa Bargeld; Brilliant Dilettantes; life writing; travelogue; non-places; moving poem
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes life writing strategies of the German composer, musician and performer Blixa Bargeld, who has been documenting his life on tour since the 1990s. The experience of moving between successive identical, impersonal, as Marc Augé puts it, non-places, such as hotels and airports, turns out to be the opposite of traveling. As a result, Bargeld’s travelogue takes unusual forms: from a series of photographs showing hotel bathrooms (serialbathroomdummyrun), through experimental prose (Europa kreuzweise. Eine Litanei), to concrete music (the album Perpetuum Mobile).
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 33-34
- Page Range: 58-75
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
