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In February 1964, the Antwerp poet Gerd Segers (1938) experimented with distorted signals on his television set and photographed some of the tuned results.<\/p>\n

Two details of these early screenshots were reproduced full page in issue 25 of the experimental poetry magazine Het Kahier X<\/em> (February 1966), edited by Ben Klein and Gerd Segers.<\/p>\n

Segers and Klein were pioneers in exploring and visualising the boundaries of poetry. In the sixties, both poets collaborated in surprising performances and the realisation of poetry in new forms.<\/p>\n

The six surviving original photographs of Segers’ TV screen experiment,\u00a0reproduced for this edition,\u00a0were first shown in the exhibition\u00a0De nieuwe pohesie is!<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at Demian Books in 2022.<\/p>\n

In the spring of 1963, inspired by the space race, Gerd Segers assembled and photographed the concrete poem Eerste gedicht op de maan<\/em> (First Poem on the Moon<\/em>). Segers’ poetic artwork makes an imaginary moon landing, years before the first physical artwork arrives there. The small sculpture Fallen Astronaut<\/em> by Antwerp artist Paul Van Hoeydonck was left on the moon during the Apollo 15<\/em> mission in 1971.<\/p>\n

Some ideas travel faster than light, and poetry proves to be no exception.<\/p>\n

\"Gerd\"Gerd\"Gerd<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025 Antwerp, Demian, limited to 35 numbered and signed copies for circulation and five copies for collaborators, marked A to E. Each copy contains seven photographs reproduced from the vintage prints, and copy A contains the vintage prints exclusively. Introduction: Ren\u00e9 Franken. Folder and graphic design by Jelle Jespers. Copyright photos: Gerd Segers. 9,5:9,5 cm.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4383,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[25,269,250,289,20],"product_tag":[1091,233,310],"class_list":{"0":"post-4382","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archivalia","7":"product_cat-artists-books","8":"product_cat-fotos","9":"product_cat-fotografie-film","10":"product_cat-uitgeverij","11":"product_tag-concrete-poetry","12":"product_tag-gerd-segers","13":"product_tag-kahier-x","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demian.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}