{"id":11278,"date":"2015-01-13T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?page_id=11278"},"modified":"2021-02-23T20:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:56:49","slug":"dramatis-personae-universal-storyline-1-eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/dramatis-personae-universal-storyline-1-eng\/","title":{"rendered":">< DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><!-- .style1 { font-family: \"Bell MT\"; font-weight: bold; } .style2 { font-family: \"Bell MT\"; font-size: 20px; } body { background-image: url(http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/images\/Sunflowers-Flowers.jpg); } .style5 { font-size: 30px; font-family: \"Bell MT\"; font-weight: bold; } .style6 {font-family: \"Bell MT\"} .style7 {font-size: 20px} .style8 {color: #FF0000} a:link { color: #FF0000; } a:visited { color: #CCCCCC; } body,td,th { font-family: Bell MT; } .style9 {font-size: 18px} .style12 { font-family: \"Bell MT\"; font-size: 12px; } .style13 {font-family: \"Bell MT\"; font-size: 16px; } .style15 { font-size: 20px; color: #FF0000; font-weight: bold; } .style17 {font-size: 12px} --><\/style>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/ebutik\">eButik<\/a> \/ &gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[English] [<a href=\"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/dramatis-personae-universal-storyline-1\/\">Danish<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11269 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/..\/wp_uploads\/\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-omslag1.jpg\" alt=\"DRAMATIS omslag.indd\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-omslag1.jpg 484w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-omslag1-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Kenneth Krabat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1 (paper)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tabognar.dk\">tab&amp;nar<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSize: 126 pages, 55\u00a0colour pages<br \/>\nISBN 978-87-91846-18-2<br \/>\nPrice: DKK\u00a0178 (+ shipping\u00a0DKK 40)<br \/>\nOrder\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:business@tabognar.dk\">business@tabognar.dk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11268 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/..\/wp_uploads\/\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-epub-for-ipad-600x802.jpg\" alt=\"DRAMATIS PERSONAE epub for ipad\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-epub-for-ipad-600x802.jpg 600w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-epub-for-ipad-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-epub-for-ipad-900x1204.jpg 900w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DRAMATIS-PERSONAE-epub-for-ipad.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><strong>Kenneth Krabat<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1 (iBooks)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Publisher: Se, sne!<br \/>\nSize: 134 pages, 55 pages calligraphed by hand<br \/>\nISBN 978-87-91846-19-9<br \/>\nPrice: DKK\u00a089 (<strong><a title=\"K\u00f8b bogen i iTunes Store\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/dramatis-personae-universal\/id957462323?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes Store<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1<\/strong>\u00a0is a book of 55 stories without words fousing on the &#8220;meeting&#8221; by the use of just one character &#8211; the symbol &gt; &#8211; mirrored, turned, joined, broken.<\/p>\n<p>The book was 10 years in the making. The Danish Arts Council has supported the future exploration of this language, which will become\u00a0<strong>&lt; Universal Storyline 2\u00a0<\/strong>og<strong>\u00a03<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2013\/08\/19\/nyt-pa-papir-modtaget-provebog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Photos from the process<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews in the ebook:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/da.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikael_Josephsen\">Mikael Josephsen<\/a>, poet and author, Denmark<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Krabat is one of\u00a0the bad boys of the literary environment and often overlooked in mainstream literature by not readily conforming to category. Now yet another strange book of his making is published; a book without words, but with peculiar characters dancing to form different patterns on all pages. In Latin \u201cDramatis Personae\u201d means \u201cpeople in a play\u201d &#8211; like the poet Robert Browning\u2019s masterpiece of the same title. And to my eyes Kenneth Krabat\u2019s book seems mostly related to the characters in a play.<\/p>\n<p>Wordlessness fuels all poetry, as the poem is always trying to say what cannot be said in plain language; the poet need invent a language for his intent.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Kenneth Krabat has done here with only a single character &#8211; dancing, acting out a language outside of convention. The books poetry is of course more an experiment of form than rich in content &#8211; if you disregard the genius of omitting the tongue to shape the language. Throughout time many have tried similar experiments, from sending publishers books of blank pages, to shaping poems in the form of math equations. But rarely with such an excellent outcome as in this book, which makes you think of Chinese or Japanese haiku poetry.<\/p>\n<p>What we really see here, as we browse these pictures, wondering about the beautiful patterns formed by this recumbant \u2018v\u2019, is pictorial art. Close scrutiny of the patterns makes you realise that it must have taken equally long time to write as a traditional volume of poetry &#8211; the \u201calphabet\u201d placed with great care to make it seem to fall as if randomly tossed, whilst actually in the assumption of an anarchic order.\u00a0<i>Perfect disorder<\/i>\u00a0one might call it, as the great poet Birgitte Krogsb\u00f8ll latest collection of poems is called.<\/p>\n<p>Physics, atoms and neutrons, and the pairing of cells, also come to mind. So, as it is usual with Kenneth Krabat, we are taken on a tour out into the universe and all the way down into the smallest particles constituting all the things visible to our eyes. These patterns and images are a genuine remedy if your brain is tired of words and in need of a kind of visual music instead. I enjoy it more and more, finding it it an increasing depth, almost like a meditation.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Krabat is one of our foremost poets, and this book is only further proof of his uniqueness. I am happy to have discovered his body of work, which I fell seriously in love with by way of the poetry collection \u201celskede elskede\u201d (\u201cbeloved beloved\u201d) from 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The present wordless collection becomes even stronger knowing that the actual tongue of the poet was threatened by cancer in 2014. But now we know that even without audible language he can tell you about the great within the small, as only a true visionary can. He is an artist whose next work you can never predict; only that it will be well thought through, thoroughly crafted and truly original.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Metta Carter, musician, performance artist, Denmark:<\/p>\n<p>In a sea of noisy opinions, expressions and words\u00a0<i>silence, contemplation and a simple textural beauty<\/i>\u00a0find their way out through art in this different and aesthetic book. A wordless explanation to the formations, relations and movements of life observed from above, from within by an eagle\u2019s eye\u2019s view.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Asia\u2019s simple idiom of shapes, Kenneth reproduces form with a Nordic colour scheme and a symphonic naturalness in colour as well as composition of the whole.<\/p>\n<p>Through 55 iterations of \u201cthe meeting\u201d the many patterns are broken down to the simplicity of repetition by way of a single form, which in repetition and reflection comprises the essence of life.<\/p>\n<p>I bought 2 copies and presented \u201c&gt;&lt; Dramatis Personae, Universal Storyline 1\u201d to my son like this (he is 20): \u201cShould you ever come to doubt who you are in the world and in your relationships, open this book anywhere to see if you can\u2019t find yourself and your relations right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This unique book provides room for the making of individual stories, understanding and interpretation of the many scenes and relations we finds ourselves in throughout our lives, as well as an opportunity to depict the meeting of any two (and more) of anything, which directly causes our reality to come into being.<\/p>\n<p>I can strongly recommend DRAMATIS PERSONAE to shapers of form and to existentialists in possession of a sense of the esoteric, philosopy, or the shaping and beauty of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eButik \/ &gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1 [English] [Danish] Kenneth Krabat &gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1 (paper) Publisher:\u00a0tab&amp;nar Size: 126 pages, 55\u00a0colour pages ISBN 978-87-91846-18-2 Price: DKK\u00a0178 (+ shipping\u00a0DKK 40) Order\u00a0business@tabognar.dk &nbsp; &nbsp; Kenneth Krabat &gt;&lt; DRAMATIS PERSONAE, Universal Storyline 1 (iBooks) Publisher: Se, sne! 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