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The Immersive Performance Poetry: A Multidimensional Exploration

The Immersive Performance Poetry: A Multidimensional Exploration

Meersman, Philip

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9363543323
ISBN13: 9789363543324
Publisher: Cyberwit.Net
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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