Gotic, Katarina

Katarina Gotic (c) privat

Katarina Gotic, born in Gradiška in the north of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives in Berlin. She worked as a teacher, researcher, quality and risk manager, medical writer, and (finally) a poet. In 2024, Katarina Gotic published her first poetry book, “we need a breathing tongue between” (kith books 2024). She is currently completing her language/visual collage “leerlauf” and beginning a hybrid translation project of Celan’s “Atemwende” into Bosnian. Katarina is the recipient of the 2023 Arbeitsstipendium für nichtdeutsche Literatur, awarded by the Berlin Senate, and a finalist of ZVONO and PAF awards for contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinan art.

Festival Content

Poets‘ Corner auf der Insel Eiswerder

a thin band of glue

open studios from 3 pm 

backsteinboot, Eiswerderstrasse 18 F, 13585 Berlin I 2 € (on site)

A written text does not always exist on its own, but may be placed with, conditioned or shaped by images or photographs. Sound images are also inherent to some text forms. Seeing that we are at Backsteinboot, a studio community on the historic island of Eiswerder, this evening we will explore various influences and materials that are used before, during or after writing. Do come early: the artists will provide insights into their studios and the emphatically recommend refreshing yourself by testing the Spandauer waters surrounding the island.

Lütkewitz, Andrea • Mattheis, Liola Nike • Hundt, Marlene • Gotic, Katarina • Lukatsch, Wilma

Poets´ Corner in Neukölln

That used this here* - Workshop

3-6 pm

Upcycling, Hobrechtstr. 54, 12047 Berlin | Free entry

Together we will upcycle old texts and create a textual sculpture. We will copy, print, cut, write, rewrite, paint, glue, weave and, somehow, make it all work – using materials found that day at UPCYCLING Neukölln. We will explore, experiment and discuss what upcycling means for the world and for poetry.

 

 

Gotic, Katarina