‘I love you passionately’: Thinking borders after Gherasim Luca

This seminar with Cosmina Moroșan and Anticorp Solar uses the work of poet and writer Gherasim Luca as a fulcrum for future work about borders in poetry and literature. We will consider Luca as an inventor of a style of thinking about migration as a way of life and the challenges involved in crossing physical and abstract borders highlighting unexpected love in the face of political and existential threats. The seminar will contain a series of short presentations followed by a discussion about what to do next. The aim is to share information, forge connections and discuss a process for future work. 

The seminar is open to anyone with an interest in borders, border studies and literature. You do not have to register in advance.

Programme

• Georgiana Cojocaru: ‘I love you passionately’: Introduction 
• Cosmina Moroşan: The ethics of wandering
• Anticorp Solar (Vlad Constantinescu): The sounds of sound: Performance poetry and the method of stuttering
• Carl Olsson: Reading of ‘Self-shadowing prey’ by Gherasim Luca (Swedish and English) followed by afterthoughts
• Georgiana Cojocaru: Oralisation. Emotionalisation. Sensualisation. Gherasim Luca’s poetic search for a new unconscious
• Next steps