Jogo e poesia visual : a dinâmica dos naipes na obra OLHLO2 de Knorr

Abstract

Visual poetry puts vision at the core of the creative process, running through time as a method concerning the aesthetical shape of the word.Far from the oversimplifying idea of dealing only with image, visual poetry embraces features of the visual arts which connect the verbal and the non verbal. Poetry characterized by visual aspects bursts into the 20th century and goes through the 21st century, in which the presence of computers motivates experiences with new modalities. In this context, the present work aims at analyzing, under distinct semiological perspectives, the literary work "OLHLO2: Poesia Visual" (2007), by the contemporary poet Luiz Augusto Knop de Mendonça - KNORR, which captures attention due to the structural break within the book/game. OLHLO2 consists in a small box, where the side opening shows 54 cards, each of which contains a poem that is independent from the others. At the back of the cards, subtitles appear along with the title, year of production and a brief explanation. Despite of a temporal demarcation of execution, the main landmark of the book/game is the sequential disorder of the poetical cards, each card containing one single poem. This work intends to show how the syntax of time and space guide the pictorial choices of the selected poems as suits of the game by Knorr (2007). In this sense, the goal is to understand how, in OLHO2, time is connected to the nonlinear aspect of the language, so important to the poetical play inherent to literature. Similarly, the purpose is also to understand how the notion of space, through the spatiality of the verbal and of the non verbal, implements a way of seeing multiple meanings of the experience of being in the world and to betake oneself. Understanding the wild cards as those which run through the notions of time and space is also a goal. The wild cards are seen as the ensemble of cards that evidence the ambiguities and the concomitance of different interpretative meanings. The analysis is made through the choice of forty-eight poems that, by bringing about the themes of time, space and of wild cards, reveal their multiple meanings as a visualpoetic game.