Video Poem Helicopter City is an animated digital illustration made of documentary photographs of a brutalist building found in Priština. The animated digital illustration serves as a canvas upon which the poem is presented in the form of visual, sometimes concrete poetry. The visualization of the poem also serves as a subtitle. The video has no sound. It’s an experimental form of storytelling that uses several already-known techniques from the history of art combining them in the new composition.
The project is part of the subtheme Poetry and the Digital Commons - New platforms, new audiences.
Author
Milica Denković
Milica Denković finished MA in New Media Arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia. She is a member of the Artist Association of Vojvodina and has exhibited her multimedia works in Serbia and abroad. From 2018.-2023. She collaborated with the Swedish cultural organization Kultivera as an independent artist on international projects, workshops, and local festivals in the field of experimental and intermedia arts. In 2021 her experimental video poetry works were included in numerous video and film festivals around the world covering topics such as pandemic, gender normativity, and psychological violence. In the 2021. She started an autoethnographic research project about dysmenorrhea which grew into a collection of 35 poems – called the Menstrual Cycle of Poems. In 2024, she was selected by the jury of Artist‘s Associations from Serbia to be an artist resident at Cite International des Arts in Paris (France) where she worked on the multimedia project Dysmenorrhea Diaries combining poetry, installations, photography, and performance. Her topics of research cover the area of speculative design and narratives, depictions of care, feminist art, dystopia and utopian visions, and urban imagination. She is also active as a slam poet.
