Concrete Poetry, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK – 2011, curated by Richard Parry.

Photo by Mark Blower

Description of the project

The project was presented on the receipts at the Museum’s café. Huttner took lines from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and sampled them with lines from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In this hip-hop way he created ten new poems that were each 7 lines long. The poems were chosen randomly, so that each visitor seemingly got a personalized poem.

Above, you see poem number 1 on a receipt. Below are two more examples.

 

2.

waters that no frost could harden

forked out the bearded apple,

my story is immoral

shaping-time the circle stung awake

incarnate devil in a talking snake

you have not yet received my thanks!

well then, kill him as well!

 

3.

gods might long and become fishers

Samson of your zodiac.

Drunk as a vineyard snail

Towards the studded male in a bent,
beauty: he teaches us that here

Love, labour and kill

Become what you are!