Poesie des Zwischen

Zu einem Dialogbuch Klaus Peter Denckers und Giovanni Fontanas

Abstract

The book No A <-> No Z, a collaboration between Klaus Peter Dencker and Giovanni Fontana, is characterized on several levels by a poetics of dialogue ‘between’ different instances, media, and aesthetic procedures: Relatable to an intersection of different aesthetic discourses, it is especially connected to diverse concepts and interpretive options of interstices (gaps, ‘play/wiggle room’, etc.). As an artist’s book composed of text and image elements, it explores tensions and affinities between text and image; as a product of cooperation between two poets, it maps the course of Dencker’s and Fontana’s artistic dialogue through its structure. It exemplarily demonstrates how the book becomes the space of a productive confrontation between the artistic languages of the two authors – and thus programmatically joins other book publications by Dencker, Fontana and the “redfoxpress”.