Postdigital Remediation and Recycling off the Page : The Collaborative Work "Besmette Stad"

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In his poems "Bezette stad" ("Occupied City") Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen views the Great War as essential for the transition from the old world to the new. A century later, the multimedia artistic project “Besmette stad” was inaugurated and can be read as is an artistic recreation of van Ostaijen’s poems in the postdigital age. This contribution aims to detect and classify the types and strategies of recycling which have been used in the re(use) of specific poems in the anthology "Bezette stad".