POGON Artist Residency

POGON Residency Dan BoehlFrom January to March 2015, POGON – the Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth – awarded me a residency to live and work in Zagreb.

Besides putting together a series of video works and an animation with artists Maja Markovic and Boris Fisher, POGON sponsored two big billboards of my poetry. The Croatian language poetry billboards appeared under a tram bridge in the area around Zagreb University.

Dan Boehl Pogon Billboard

Dan Boehl Pogon Billboard

The first billboard reads:

drive
jaguar
to
popular
mall

how
hard
we
going
to
dance
tonight

all
the
way
hard

!!!

 

The second poem:

nothing
happens
these
days

everyones
home

no
chance
for
change
until
morning

i
dream
of
a
better
life
but
tomorrow
is
just
monday

but
i
was
on
gajeva
ulica
when
the
heart
lights
came
on
and
a
woman
eating
salad
stuck
out
her
tongue

art
is
always
escaping
always
somewhere
else

candle
in
the
light
the
horror
speaks
through
the
work

its
amazing
to
come
to
a
new
place
and
what
you
are
seeing
collides
with
your
idea

you
were
made
for
me
by
the
stars
above

it
pays
to
explore
the
universe

 

 

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