Professor Debra Kelly, Deputy Director of the AHRC Open World Research Initiative Research Programme Language Acts and Worldmaking led by King’s College London and of its research centre based there has posted recently a review on Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani’s work on the Language Acts blog:
“In the pulsing heart of language, of languages, words and images and sounds interweave, vibrate; memories and experiences and places intertwine, reverberate; symbols recur, resonate. Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani’s multilingual and multisensorial performance-practice engages multifaceted corporeal, emotional and intellectual experiences of the poet and of her readers /listeners/spectators/audience in English, French, Croatian and beyond, not least in the ‘shadow language’ Arabic.”
The full text of Debra Kelly’s blog piece can be found here: https://languageacts.org/blog/in-the-heart-of-language-multilingual-performance-practice-with-jasmina-bolfek-radovani/
Jasmina is a London-based poet of mixed heritage (father Croatian-mother Algerian) born in Zagreb, Croatia. Her most recent multilingual poetry collection Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues in English, French and Croatian was published by Tears in the Fence (2022). She was one of the Language Acts Small grant programme holders in 2018 and 2019 that funded her multilingual poetry project “Unbound”. Jasmina has since given talks and written essays on multilingual poetry practice and has (co-directed) several performances and recitals in London, Paris and Pula (Croatia). Her latest piece “Heart monologues” (co-directed with Delphine Salkin) with music and live performance by London-based composer Atau Tanaka is a long poem sequence in English, French and Croatian can be found in her book Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues. Jasmina is currently poet-in-residence at the Centre 4 Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, and a member of the Centre for Poetry, Queen Mary.
For more information about Jasmina’s work and activities visit her website: https://jasminabradovani.com
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