Serge Segay (1947-2014)

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Serge Sigei 19.03.1947 - 21.09.2014.

Today the sad news of the death of another Visual Poet and writer/artist reached us. Serge Segay died this sunday.

News came from Russia (Dmitry Babenko) which published the news on facebook.

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Serge Segay born in 1947 in Murmansk (in Northern Russia), from 1974 he lived in Yeisk (on the Azov sea), from 1997 in St. Petersburg, from 1998 in Kiel, Germany.

Wrote his first zaum and abstract poems in 1962, when the "Anarcho-Futuristic group" was founded in Vologda.
Since 1971 he has produced pictographical poems, unique in Russian poetry; first founder of visual poetry movement in Russian Literature;

Some examples of zaum poems and experimental prose published in the magazine "Urbi" (1993, 1996, 1997), almanach "Index-2" (1993), antology "Zevgma: russian poetry from manierism to post-modernism" (1940), antology "Samizdat of the Century" (1997).

His visual poems have been published in the emigrant almanach "Rough Copy" (USA), american magazines "Score", "Ozone", "World Letter", "Lost and Found Times", and in issues of "Doc(k)s", "Offerta speciale", "Collegamenty Wobbly" and in many other international editions.

His articles about the poetry of Russian Futurism are published in "Zaum Futurism and Dadaism in Russian Culture" (Bern, 1991), "Russian Avant-Garde Literature" (Trento, 1992), "Russian Literature" (Amsterdam, 1986) and in Russian publications.....

In 1992 he published the complete poetry of the futurist Vasilisk Gnedov (Trento), in 1993 - organized the first publication of unknown texts by Alexei Khrouchonyh and Kasimir Malewitch....

Worked with tape recorder since 1985, sound performances include: "Hommage a Luiggi russolo" (S.Petersbourg, 1998), "The Breathing of Cannibal" (Bremen, Neues Museum Weserbourg, 1998), "Sounds of Shaman" (Berlin, Bobeobi Festival, 1994), "Assistances" (Budapest, Polyphonix-26, 1994) and others.

source: http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/segaybio.html#english

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Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 7:23pm

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Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 6:16pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 6:16pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 6:12pm: First published in 1994. Beautifully chaotic brut visual poetry in the transrational Zaumist tradition. Segay's work with Cyrillic characters, blurry smeared ink and rubberstamped images manages to bypass language and cultural barriers in an attempt at a universal visual language.

download book: http://xexoxial.org/pdf/my_range_web.pdf

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 6:10pm: In Part I of Asymptote blog’s interview with Alex Cigale, Cigale discussed the roots of Russian Futurism, its modern inheritors, and politics at play in Russian poetry. Now he discusses his poetry and translations of Russian neo-futurist poets Serge Segay and Rea Nikonova. Read on for new poems by Segay and Nikonova, and to find out about Cigale’s Kickstarter campaign to finish exoDICKERING: Compositions 1963-1985, translated poetry by Serge Segay.

http://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/writer/serge-segay/

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 6:08pm

Abstract

The article sketches the collaboration of Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay with the authors. After contact had been established through Mail Art, Nikonova and Segay contributed works of Visual and Sound Poetry, which appeared in the magazines Offerta Speciale and Busta Sorpresa, edited by the authors, and in the sound cassette collection Pâté de Voix. The article also gives a survey of Nikonova and Segay's participation in artist's books and in exhibitions in Italy and Germany.

Keywords

Nikonova;
Segay;
Russian Avant-Garde;
Mail Art;
Visual Poetry;
Sound Poetry

book available at:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030434790600041X

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 5:56pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 5:56pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 21, 2014 at 5:55pm

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