In Gyanogeregye James Joyce Conference 1989, Abajkovics sets out from the fictional universe of James Joyce’s Ulysses as a starting point for literary exploration. Drawing on the musty, familiar atmosphere of Central European cultural memory, he collects partially or fully formed linguistic and visual fragments—reusable remnants encountered along the way. More recently, his practice has expanded to include time-stamped messages, modes of communication, and linguistic patterns appropriated from social media platforms and meme culture. Removed from their original contexts, these materials are arbitrarily transformed into the raw material of his poetic and linguistic experiments.
abajkovics · Gyanogeregye James Joyce Conference 1989
The project is part of the subtheme Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild.
Author
Peter Abajkovics
Peter Abajkovics is a poet, editor, and visual artist. He was born in 1971 in Szombathely, Hungary, and holds a degree in Hungarian Language and Literature from Berzsenyi Dániel College (1994). Since 1995, he has been a member of the editorial staff of the art periodical Leopold Bloom.
Active as a performer and writer since 1991, a significant part of his work takes the form of visual poetry, where linguistic and visual elements intersect. He currently lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
