We are pleased to announce the 2026 Summer School of Experimental Poetry “Unfold – Experimental Poetries Then and Now”, organized by our colleagues from kultura natura pARTicip (KNP) in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest.
The Summer School is facilitated by Senka Gavranov and Dr. Robert Stacey and will take place at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest, from 6 to 10 July 2026. Nine students and emerging poets who live and work in Austria, Romania, and Serbia are invited to explore sound, visual, procedural, and experimental translation practices. Participants will engage with the global heritage of avant-garde poetry and contemporary poetic practices through workshops, lectures, and collaborative exercises.
Summer School daily programme
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Monday, 6 July – Sound
Meet and Greet, followed by an exploration of sound (concrete) poetry.
Tuesday, 7 July – Visual
Discover visual and shape poetry, including kinetic, digital, multimedia, intermedia, and new media practices.
Wednesday, 8 July – Procedural
Experiment with procedural poetry, from aleatory techniques to writing through constraints.
Thursday, 9 July – Appropriated
Explore appropriation, treated texts, appropriated methods, and transdisciplinary approaches.
Friday, 10 July – Translation & Language
Delve into language poetry and experimental translation, engaging with de/re-semantization, disjunctive poetics, and experimental translation.
The summer school is part of the project AbeX– Anthologies of Cooperation: Encounters in/through Artists’ Books and Experimental Poetry, cofinanced by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.