BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23193@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Intimate Readings: Pavel Arseniev with Çağlar Köseoğlu DTSTAMP:20260530T181242Z DTSTART:20260604T163000Z DESCRIPTION:Moving between Istanbul\, Cairo\, and Moscow\, Köseoğlu and Ars enev explore how\npoetry navigates the wake of an uprising.\n\nKöseoğlu’s collection Nasleep [Aftermath] (het balanseer\, 2020) takes the Gezi\nPark protests of 2013 as a point of departure\, exploring the remnants of that \nhistorical moment when ‘another world’ seemed possible. Pavel Arsenev’s\ ncollection Reported Speech (NY: Cicada press\, 2018) as well as his recen t Le\nrusse comme non maternelle (Vanloo éditions\, 2024 / Ciconia verlag\ , 2025)\, also\nexist in a mode of post-reflection on the last major socia l mobilization: the\nBolotnaya square protests of 2011-13. Following these events\, Arsenev was forced\nto emigrate\, while Russia annexed Crimea an d started its war against Ukraine.\n\nWhile oscillating between polyphonic \, critical noise\, and post-revolutionary\naffects\, Köseoğlu pushes the political poem to its extreme\, asking what poetry\ncan still do when coll ective political action feels out of reach. Arsenev\, in\nturn\, occupies himself with the poetic scanning of official documents (such as\nthe arres t records of political activist\, texts of the Constitution\, or the\n“sta te-standard” Bachelor’s degree)\, while capturing the repressive undertone s\nhanging in the air — a surreal indictment of contemporary poetry and ar t that\nhas now turned out to be entirely factual in Russia. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/intimate-readings-pavel-arseniev-with-c aglar-koseoglu GEO:52.3689174;4.896321 LOCATION:Perdu - Kloveniersburgwal 86\, 1012 CZ Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,burgwallen,intimate readings,multilingual,poet ry X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moving between Istanbul, Cairo, and Moscow, Köseoğlu and Arsenev explore how poetry navigates the wake of an uprising .

Köseoğlu’s collection Nasleep [Aftermath] (het balanseer, 2020) t akes the Gezi Park protests of 2013 as a point of departure, exploring the remnants of that historical moment when ‘another world’ seemed possible. Pavel Arsenev’s collection Reported Speech (NY: Cicada press, 2018) as wel l as his recent Le russe comme non maternelle (Vanloo éditions, 2024 / Cic onia verlag, 2025), also exist in a mode of post-reflection on the last ma jor social mobilization: the Bolotnaya square protests of 2011-13. Followi ng these events, Arsenev was forced to emigrate, while Russia annexed Crim ea and started its war against Ukraine.

While oscillating between polyphonic, critical noise, and post-revolutionary affects, Köseoğlu pushe s the political poem to its extreme, asking what poetry can still do when collective political action feels out of reach. Arsenev, in turn, occupies himself with the poetic scanning of official documents (such as the arres t records of political activist, texts of the Constitution, or the “state- standard” Bachelor’s degree), while capturing the repressive undertones ha nging in the air — a surreal indictment of contemporary poetry and art tha t has now turned out to be entirely factual in Russia.

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