MIROLJUB TODOROVIĆ, Serbian poet and artist, was born 1940. in Skoplje. He graduated law at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He is the founder and theoretician of Signalism, an avant-garde literary and artistic movement, active in Serbian and Yugoslav culture, and editor in chief of the International review Signal. Upon his work there were published more than 2000 reviews, articles and essays in journals and magazines and 15 books. His work was also evaluated in three Ph.D. theses. The first one was presented by Dr. Ph. Julian Kornhauser, at University of Krakow, the Department of Yugoslavistics in 1980. The second was presented by Dr. Živan Živković, at University of Belgrade, the Department of Serbian 20th Century Literature in 1991. The third was presented by Dr. Ph. Milivoje Pavlovic at Megatrend University in Belgrade in 2002.
Signalism:
"Signalism is a complex creative movement. Signalist art is a complex art of new civilization. The complexity of Signalism is noticeable in its jaggedness, openness and non-dogmatism. Signalism is not just a method, and even less so a prescribed way of creation, a school. It is not just a visual or just a computer poetry, nor just a discarding the object and reduction of artistic text to a concept, idea, a reduction of text to a blank whiteness of page, nor just an abolition of language and introduction of sign, gesture and sound as communicative elements. Signalism is also in language, in its continuous research (jargon, slang, phenomenological, technological and other forms of verbal poetry), finding out of new contents and forms and, finally, in permeating of all these mentioned communicative elements."
Poetry books:
Planet (1965), Signal (1970), Kyberno (1970), Trip to Astroland (1971), The Pig is an Excellent Swimmer (1971), Staircase (1971), Gift-parcel (1972), Certainly Milk Flame Bee (1972), Thirty Signalist Poems (1973), Bumpkin Shows off, (Slang Poetry,1974), TV Set to Stare at, (Slang Poetry, 1977), Insect on the Temple (1978), Algol (1980), Textum (1981), Brain Soup (1982), Chinese Erotism (1983), Knock-out (1984), A Day on the Hymen (1985), I Become Silent Horror Language Core (1986), I Mount Rosinante Again, (Selected Poems, 1987), Water-snake Drinks Rainwater (1988), Soupe de cervau dans l'Europe de l'Est (1988), St.Vitus Day (1989), Rzav River Neighs Happily (1990), His Thorn Red and Black (1991), Ambassador Dustbin, (Slang Poetry, 1991), Grill from Srem (1991), I Breathe, I Talk (1992), Rosy Lizard Runs Across the Rain (1994), Striptease, (Slang Poetry, 1994), Loud Frog (1994), Virgin Byzantium (1994), Storm Spittle (1995), Tzar Trojan’s Goat Ears (Gestual Poetry, 1995), Planet (1996), Ho (Slang Poetry, 1997), Electric chair (Slang Poetry, 1998), Stars' Trowel (1998), Prescription for liver inflamation (1999), Azure Dream (2000), Shot into Shit (2001), Speech Burning (2002), Phonets and Other Poems (2005), Parallel Worlds (2006), Blue Wind (2006).
Prose books:
I Just Opened my Mail (epistolary novel, 2000), Walked Into my Ear (slang stories, 2005), Diary 1982 (2006), Window (Dreams, 2006), Slang Stories (2007).
Books of Essays, and polemics:Signalism (in English, 1973), Signalism (1979), Zipper for Morons, (Settlement with False Avant-garde) (1984), Cocks from Baylon Square, (Settlement with Serbian Traditionalism, 1986), Diary of Avant-garde (1990), Liberated Language (1992), Play and Imagination (1993), Chaos and Cosmos (1994), Towards the Source of Things (1995), Planetary Culture (1995), Grammatology Thirst (1996), Signalism Yugoslav creative movement (in English, 1998), Miscellanea (2000), Poetics of Signalism (2003), Courses of Neo Avant-garde (2004).
Books for children:
Mouse in Kindergarten (2001), Crazymeter (2003).
Book-works:Fortran (1972), Approaches (1973), Signal-Art (1980), Zlatibor (1990), Forest Honey (1992).
Anthologies (editor):
Signalist Poetry,( “Signal”, 1971), Concrete, Visual and Signalist Poetry, ("Delo", 1975), Mail Art - Mail Poetry, ("Delo", 1980).
Awards:
"Pavle Markovic Adamov" 1995 for poetry and life work; "Oskar Davico" for best book published in 1998 (Star's Trowel); "Todor Manojlovic" 1999 for modern artist's sensibility and "Vuk Aword" 2005 for exceptional contribution in Serbian and pan-Serbian cultural space.
Todorović took part in more than six hundred international collective drawings exhibitions of Concrete poetry, Visual Poetry, Conceptual Art and Mail Art.
Some poems:
Scientific Poetry:
HYDROGEN
In the eye of apparition
By a bluish light
Little
trembling flame
was devouring the darkness
ATOMS
In the field of smokes
a flock of imprisoned birds sleep
If I hear their call
If I shoot at them by star
They will jump out
like secret hinds
into a moved world
ELECTRON
Once he will give me a gold apple
as a gift
Entombed in its
succulent subconsciousness
MACHINES
Machines were catching us
With their sharp gears
And ground slowly meat and bones.
Blood flew away by special drains
For irrigation of carnivore herbs
It was a systematic destruction of our bodies
But our spirit even more curiously
Continued research into stars.
WITH NOODLES CERTENLY
(Computer poetry)
2.
MAY BE I DON’T WANT DON’T FORGET
ZAJECAR RICH SOUP
ACCORDING TO THIS I’LL SPEND SUMMER
IN MARRIAGE HAVE I RIGHT
AT SLAVIJA CALMS DOWN
ACCORDING TO THIS WHILE I’M GOINGG
MAYBE I DON’T WANT IT’S TIME
NEVER DON’T FORGET
FFOR SITTING IT’S TIME
BUT HOW I’LL LOVE
3.
CUT IT OUT OF COURSE
YOU ARE RIGHT DON’T FORGET
WELL TO MIX ON ROAST
ORGANIST I’LL SPEND SUMMER
AT SLAVIJA DON’T FORGET
I’LL HAVE DON’T FORGET
ON DIKE RICH SOUP
STRAIN WHILE I’M GOING
FROM PENALTY LET ME SUGGEST
STRAIN I’LL FLY
BUY ONLY SIGNALIST POETRY
(Technological poetry)
in every house, hall, institution!
new in yugoslav market!
the already known industry of poetry
"miroljub todorovic" has begun with
production (fabrication)
of the most modern poetical texts.
a high-quality poetry is in question
that can be read, watched,
heared, drawn up, exhibited,
roared at meetings, cited,
reproduced in textbooks, put
on walls, parquet, concrete, advertising
wall boards, trains, ships, aeroplanes.
in these products that can not be
even imported for they are rare in the world
an enormous interest exists in
yugoslav and foreign market.
individuals, households, caterers,
institutions, railway, car
industry, projectant organizations,
publishing houses and clinics can ask already in this
month for our new product
signalist poetry.
the new product fabricated with the
most modern devices electronic
calculators and by complicated
mathematical and other exact methods
is of high quality and is not more expensive at all
than the already outdated and exceeded
products of the same kind.
I WANT TO BE A DRUM
i want to be a drum artificial
eyelashes are in fashion
wake up for you will have troubles
with digestive organs
niagara has begun operating
down with europe
live japanese antarctica expedition
do you accept modern fashion
woman always offers hand first
try to exclude thoughts from your head
life in brothels is not same everywhere
what does moscow want in beijing
it doesn't upset us much
the earth's magnetic field has shape of a comet
i admire coats made of camel hair
you have a runner on your stocking
rest on chang khay chek matrasses
while drinking castor oil
Links:
http://www.miroljubtodorovic.com/
http://mtodorovic2.blogspot.com/
http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevnost/signalizam/index.php#_rastko
Signalism:
"Signalism is a complex creative movement. Signalist art is a complex art of new civilization. The complexity of Signalism is noticeable in its jaggedness, openness and non-dogmatism. Signalism is not just a method, and even less so a prescribed way of creation, a school. It is not just a visual or just a computer poetry, nor just a discarding the object and reduction of artistic text to a concept, idea, a reduction of text to a blank whiteness of page, nor just an abolition of language and introduction of sign, gesture and sound as communicative elements. Signalism is also in language, in its continuous research (jargon, slang, phenomenological, technological and other forms of verbal poetry), finding out of new contents and forms and, finally, in permeating of all these mentioned communicative elements."
Poetry books:
Planet (1965), Signal (1970), Kyberno (1970), Trip to Astroland (1971), The Pig is an Excellent Swimmer (1971), Staircase (1971), Gift-parcel (1972), Certainly Milk Flame Bee (1972), Thirty Signalist Poems (1973), Bumpkin Shows off, (Slang Poetry,1974), TV Set to Stare at, (Slang Poetry, 1977), Insect on the Temple (1978), Algol (1980), Textum (1981), Brain Soup (1982), Chinese Erotism (1983), Knock-out (1984), A Day on the Hymen (1985), I Become Silent Horror Language Core (1986), I Mount Rosinante Again, (Selected Poems, 1987), Water-snake Drinks Rainwater (1988), Soupe de cervau dans l'Europe de l'Est (1988), St.Vitus Day (1989), Rzav River Neighs Happily (1990), His Thorn Red and Black (1991), Ambassador Dustbin, (Slang Poetry, 1991), Grill from Srem (1991), I Breathe, I Talk (1992), Rosy Lizard Runs Across the Rain (1994), Striptease, (Slang Poetry, 1994), Loud Frog (1994), Virgin Byzantium (1994), Storm Spittle (1995), Tzar Trojan’s Goat Ears (Gestual Poetry, 1995), Planet (1996), Ho (Slang Poetry, 1997), Electric chair (Slang Poetry, 1998), Stars' Trowel (1998), Prescription for liver inflamation (1999), Azure Dream (2000), Shot into Shit (2001), Speech Burning (2002), Phonets and Other Poems (2005), Parallel Worlds (2006), Blue Wind (2006).
Prose books:
I Just Opened my Mail (epistolary novel, 2000), Walked Into my Ear (slang stories, 2005), Diary 1982 (2006), Window (Dreams, 2006), Slang Stories (2007).
Books of Essays, and polemics:Signalism (in English, 1973), Signalism (1979), Zipper for Morons, (Settlement with False Avant-garde) (1984), Cocks from Baylon Square, (Settlement with Serbian Traditionalism, 1986), Diary of Avant-garde (1990), Liberated Language (1992), Play and Imagination (1993), Chaos and Cosmos (1994), Towards the Source of Things (1995), Planetary Culture (1995), Grammatology Thirst (1996), Signalism Yugoslav creative movement (in English, 1998), Miscellanea (2000), Poetics of Signalism (2003), Courses of Neo Avant-garde (2004).
Books for children:
Mouse in Kindergarten (2001), Crazymeter (2003).
Book-works:Fortran (1972), Approaches (1973), Signal-Art (1980), Zlatibor (1990), Forest Honey (1992).
Anthologies (editor):
Signalist Poetry,( “Signal”, 1971), Concrete, Visual and Signalist Poetry, ("Delo", 1975), Mail Art - Mail Poetry, ("Delo", 1980).
Awards:
"Pavle Markovic Adamov" 1995 for poetry and life work; "Oskar Davico" for best book published in 1998 (Star's Trowel); "Todor Manojlovic" 1999 for modern artist's sensibility and "Vuk Aword" 2005 for exceptional contribution in Serbian and pan-Serbian cultural space.
Todorović took part in more than six hundred international collective drawings exhibitions of Concrete poetry, Visual Poetry, Conceptual Art and Mail Art.
Some poems:
Scientific Poetry:
HYDROGEN
In the eye of apparition
By a bluish light
Little
trembling flame
was devouring the darkness
ATOMS
In the field of smokes
a flock of imprisoned birds sleep
If I hear their call
If I shoot at them by star
They will jump out
like secret hinds
into a moved world
ELECTRON
Once he will give me a gold apple
as a gift
Entombed in its
succulent subconsciousness
MACHINES
Machines were catching us
With their sharp gears
And ground slowly meat and bones.
Blood flew away by special drains
For irrigation of carnivore herbs
It was a systematic destruction of our bodies
But our spirit even more curiously
Continued research into stars.
WITH NOODLES CERTENLY
(Computer poetry)
2.
MAY BE I DON’T WANT DON’T FORGET
ZAJECAR RICH SOUP
ACCORDING TO THIS I’LL SPEND SUMMER
IN MARRIAGE HAVE I RIGHT
AT SLAVIJA CALMS DOWN
ACCORDING TO THIS WHILE I’M GOINGG
MAYBE I DON’T WANT IT’S TIME
NEVER DON’T FORGET
FFOR SITTING IT’S TIME
BUT HOW I’LL LOVE
3.
CUT IT OUT OF COURSE
YOU ARE RIGHT DON’T FORGET
WELL TO MIX ON ROAST
ORGANIST I’LL SPEND SUMMER
AT SLAVIJA DON’T FORGET
I’LL HAVE DON’T FORGET
ON DIKE RICH SOUP
STRAIN WHILE I’M GOING
FROM PENALTY LET ME SUGGEST
STRAIN I’LL FLY
BUY ONLY SIGNALIST POETRY
(Technological poetry)
in every house, hall, institution!
new in yugoslav market!
the already known industry of poetry
"miroljub todorovic" has begun with
production (fabrication)
of the most modern poetical texts.
a high-quality poetry is in question
that can be read, watched,
heared, drawn up, exhibited,
roared at meetings, cited,
reproduced in textbooks, put
on walls, parquet, concrete, advertising
wall boards, trains, ships, aeroplanes.
in these products that can not be
even imported for they are rare in the world
an enormous interest exists in
yugoslav and foreign market.
individuals, households, caterers,
institutions, railway, car
industry, projectant organizations,
publishing houses and clinics can ask already in this
month for our new product
signalist poetry.
the new product fabricated with the
most modern devices electronic
calculators and by complicated
mathematical and other exact methods
is of high quality and is not more expensive at all
than the already outdated and exceeded
products of the same kind.
I WANT TO BE A DRUM
i want to be a drum artificial
eyelashes are in fashion
wake up for you will have troubles
with digestive organs
niagara has begun operating
down with europe
live japanese antarctica expedition
do you accept modern fashion
woman always offers hand first
try to exclude thoughts from your head
life in brothels is not same everywhere
what does moscow want in beijing
it doesn't upset us much
the earth's magnetic field has shape of a comet
i admire coats made of camel hair
you have a runner on your stocking
rest on chang khay chek matrasses
while drinking castor oil
Links:
http://www.miroljubtodorovic.com/
http://mtodorovic2.blogspot.com/
http://www.rastko.org.yu/knjizevnost/signalizam/index.php#_rastko
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