This essay reflects on my work as an immersive poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist who collaborates with visual artists, musicians, designers, and technologists to stage poetry beyond the page. I frame poetry as a union of five interdependent modalities—written, oral, read, aural, and performative—and argue for planetaria (rather than headset VR) as the ideal environment for collective literary immersion. Drawing on Cubo-Futurist ZAUM, avant-garde art & poetry, Flemish visual-poetry lineages (Van Ostaijen, De Vree, Ramon, Fierens), and theories of speech act, voice, and participation, I theorize a poetics in which book, body, and dome co-perform. A narratological analysis of my In the Future series (fabula vs. sujet) shows how repetition, looped time, and image generate immersive dramaturgy. The essay further discusses poetry of resistance, visual scenography, the politics of reception in a post-truth condition, and ethical questions around AI authorship, documentation, and access. Case studies from Oceanus Refertus: Microplastic Paradise on a Slip of Paper and performance video documentation ground these reflections. |
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Brussels based Belgian multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, sociopolitical and environmental issues. He teaches avant-garde, visual and performance poetry worldwide and is curator of Poetryfest.brussels. Meersman studied Archeology & Art History at VUB Brussels and works on a PhD in the Arts at AP University College Antwerp researching visual poetry transforming it into an immersive virtual reality experiences. In 2014 he published “This is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry” (Three Rooms Press, NY, NY, USA, ISBN: 9781941110010)
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