Miroljub Todorovi? (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????????; born 5 March 1940 in Skoplje) is a Serbian poet and artist. He is the founder and theoretician of Signalism, an international avant-garde literary and artistic movement. He is also editor-in-chief of the International review "Signal".
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Biography
He was born March 5, 1940 in Skoplje. The war years he spent as a refugee with his mother (a teacher), and his sister in the areas around the Great Morava river, where he finished elementary school. In 1954 the whole family moved to Ni?, where he finished high school.
He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1963. For a time he studied Public International Law at the third instance of the same faculty. A member of the editorial board of the student culture periodical "Vidici", he participated in the student uprising of 1968. His poem "March of the Red University" was multiplied in thousands of copies and adopted by acclamation at the Student Union at the Faculty of Philosophy as the anthem of the University of Belgrade.
In 1969 he founded the neo-avantgarde literary and artistic movement Signalism, and the following year he launched the International Review "Signal" publishing most important avant-garde authors Raoul Hausmann, Augusto de Campos, Michele Perfetti, Adriano Spatola, Clemente Padin, Julien Blaine, Sarenco, Eugenio Miccini, Richard Kostelanetz, Guillermo Deisler, Bob Cobbing, Eugen Gomringer, Pierre Garnier, Enzo Minarelli, Keiichi Nakamura, Dick Higgins, Dmitry Bulatov, Sol LeWitt, Shozo Shimamoto, Klaus Peter Dencker, Ruggero Maggi, Daniel Daligand, Willi R. Melnikov, Kum-Nam Baik, On Kawara, Klaus Groh etc.
He worked as a journalist, a high school teacher, secretary of the editorial board, editor and advisor for Interstate and International Cultural Cooperation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia. In 1982 he retired and fully devoted himself to literary and artistic work.
Poetry, essays, and intermedia works of Miroljub Todorovi? have been published in several languages: in anthologies, collections, catalogs, newspapers and magazines in Europe, North and South America, Australia, South Korea and Japan.
As an artist, he had a dozen solo exhibitions and participated in more than six hundred collective international exhibitions of drawings, collages, visual poetry, mail-art and conceptual art.
He is included in the biographical dictionary "Serbs Who Have Marked the Twentieth Century" (five hundred persons), Belgrade 2006.
On the work of Miroljub Todorovi? and Signalism movement that he had founded, three doctoral dissertations have been defended: Dr. Julian Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, 1980; Dr. ?ivan ?ivkovi?, Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, 1991 and Dr. Milivoje Pavlovi?, University of Kosovska Mitrovica, 2002. Twenty monographs have also been published on the same subject.
In the holdings of the Library of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences there is a "Special Miroljub Todorovi? library", and in the Historical Archives of Belgrade there is a Legacy "Miroljub Todorovi?".
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Awards and recognitions
- 1995: "Pavle Markovi? Adamov" for poetry and life work
- 1998: "Oskar Davi?o" for best book published in (Star's Trowel)
- 1999: "Todor Manojlovi?" for modern artist's sensibility
- 2005: "Vuk Award" for exceptional contribution in Serbian cultural space
- 2007: "Vuk Legacy" Award for art, for poetry book "Blue Wind",
- 2008: "Golden Letter" Award for book 'Slang Stories"
- 2010: "Krle?a Award" for life work
- 2010: Diploma for life work of Writers Association of Serbia,
- 2011: "Golden link" by Cultural-educational community of Belgrade, for perpetual contribution to the capital's culture
Works
Poetry books
- Planet (Planeta / ???????, 1965)
- Signal (1970)
- Kyberno (1970)
- Trip to Astroland (Putovanje u Zvezdaliju / ???????? ? ??????????, 1971)
- The Pig is an Excellent Swimmer (Svinja je odli?an pliva? / ????? ?? ??????? ??????, 1971)
- Staircase (Stepeni?te / ??????????, 1971)
- Gift-parcel (Poklon-paket / ??????-?????, 1972)
- Certainly Milk Flame Bee (Naravno mleko plamen p?ela / ??????? ????? ?????? ?????, 1972)
- Thirty Signalist Poems (English 1973)
- Bumpkin Shows off (Gejak glanca guljarke / ????? ?????? ???????, 1974), slang poetry
- TV Set to Stare at, (Telezur za trakanje / ??????? ?? ???????, 1977), slang poetry
- Insect on the Temple (Insekt na slepoo?nici / ?????? ?? ???????????, 1978)
- Algol (1980)
- Textum (Tekstum / ???????, 1981)
- Brain Soup (?orba od mozga / ????? ?? ?????, 1982)
- Chinese Erotism (1983)
- Knock-out (Nokaut / ??????, 1984)
- A Day on the Hymen (Dan na devi?njaku / ??? ?? ?????????, 1985)
- I Become Silent Horror Language Core (Za?utim jeza jezik jezgro / ??????? ???? ????? ??????, 1986)
- I Mount Rosinante Again (Ponovo uzjahujem Rosinanta / ?????? ????????? ?????????, 1987), selected poems
- Water-snake Drinks Rainwater (Belou?ka popije ki?nicu / ???????? ?????? ???????, 1988)
- Soupe de cervau dans l'Europe de l'Est (1988)
- St.Vitus Day (Vidov dan / ????? ???, 1989)
- Rzav River Neighs Happily (Radosno r?e Rzav / ??????? ??? ????, 1990)
- His Thorn Red and Black (Trn mu crven i crn / ??? ?? ????? ? ???, 1991)
- Ambassador Dustbin (Ambasadorska kibla / ???????????? ?????, 1991), slang poetry
- Grill from Srem (Sremski ?evap / ??????? ?????, 1991)
- I Breathe, I Talk (Di?em. Govorim / ?????. ???????, 1992)
- Rosy Lizard Runs Across the Rain (Rumen gu?ter ki?u pretr?ava / ????? ?????? ???? ?????????, 1994)
- Striptease, (Striptiz / ????????, 1994), slang poetry
- Loud Frog (Glasna gatalinka / ?????? ?????????, 1994)
- Virgin Byzantium (Devi?anska Vizantija / ?????????? ?????????, 1994)
- Storm Spittle (Ispljuvak oluje / ???????? ?????, 1995)
- Tsar Trojan's Goat Ears (U cara Trojana kozje u?i / ? ???? ??????? ????? ???, 1995), gestual poetry
- Planet (Planeta / ???????, 1996)
- Stink bug (Smrdibuba / ?????????, 1997), slang poetry
- Electric chair (Elektri?na stolica / ?????????? ???????, 1998 ), slang poetry
- Stars' Trowel (Zvezdana mistrija / ???????? ????????, 1998)
- Prescription for liver inflammation (Recept za zapaljenje jetre / ?????? ?? ???????? ?????, 1999)
- Azure Dream (Azurni san / ?????? ???, 2000)
- Shot into Shit (Pucanj u govno / ????? ? ?????, 2001)
- Speech Burning (Gori govor / ???? ?????, 2002)
- Phonets and Other Poems (Foneti i druge pesme / ?????? ? ????? ?????, 2005)
- Parallel Worlds (Paralelni svetovi / ????????? ???????, 2006)
- Blue Wind (Plavi vetar / ????? ?????, 2006)
- Wound, Word and Poem (Rana, re? i pesma / ????, ??? ? ?????, 2007)
- Golden Fleece (Zlatno runo / ?????? ????, 2007)
- Pig is Excellent Swimmer and Other Poems (Svinja je odli?an pliva? i druge pesme / ????? ?? ??????? ?????? ? ????? ?????, 2009)
- Storm Lover (Ljubavnik oluje / ???????? ?????, 2009)
- Hunger for Unspeakable (Glad za neizgovorljivim / ???? ?? ??????????????, 2010)
- ?yborg (Kiborg / ??????, 2013).
Prose books
- I Just Opened my Mail (Tek ?to sam otvorila po?tu / ??? ??? ??? ???????? ?????, 2000), epistolary novel
- Walked Into my Ear (Do?etalo mi u uvo / ???????? ?? ? ???, 2005), slang stories
- Diary 1982 (Dnevnik / ???????, 2006)
- Window (Prozor / ??????, 2006), dreams
- Slang Stories (?atro pri?e / ????? ?????, 2007)
- Bark at My Sole (Laj mi na ?on / ??? ?? ?? ???, 2007), slang stories, internet edition
- Shocking Blue (?oking blu / ?????? ???, 2007), slang novel
- Soaked in Henhouse (Kisnem u koko?injcu / ?????? ? ?????????, 2008), slang rants
- Hurts my Dick (Boli me blajbinger / ???? ?? ??????????, 2009), slang novel
- Osier Bag (Torba od vrbovog pru?a / ????? ?? ??????? ?????, 2010), short stories
- Diary of Signalism 1979-1983 (Dnevnik signalizma 1978-1983 / ??????? ?????????? 1978-1983, 2012)
- The Diary 1985 (Dnevnik 1985 / ??????? 1985, 2012)
- Apeiron (Internet edition 2013)
Essays and polemics
- Signalism (in English, 1973)
- Signalism (Signalizam / ??????????, 1979)
- Zipper for Morons (?tep za ?umindere / ???? ?? ?????????) (1984), note: a settlement with false avant-garde
- Cocks from Baylon Square (Pevci sa Bajlon-skvera / ????? ?? ??????-??????, 1986) note: a settlement with Serbian traditionalism
- Diary of Avant-garde (Dnevnik avangarde / ??????? ?????????, 1990)
- Liberated Language (Oslobo?eni jezik / ?????????? ?????, 1992)
- Play and Imagination (Igra i imaginacija / ???? ? ???????????, 1993)
- Chaos and Cosmos (Haos i Kosmos / ???? ? ??????, 1994)
- Towards the Source of Things (Ka izvoru stvari / ?? ?????? ??????, 1995)
- Planetary Culture (Planetarna kultura / ?????????? ???????, 1995)
- Grammatology Thirst (?e? gramatologije / ??? ?????????????, 1996)
- Signalism Yugoslav creative movement (in English, 1998)
- Miscellanea (2000)
- Poetics of Signalism (Poetika signalizma / ??????? ??????????, 2003)
- Courses of Neo-Avant-garde (Tokovi neoavangarde / ?????? ????????????, 2004)
- Language and Unspeakable (Jezik i neizrecivo / ????? ? ??????????, 2011)
- The time of Neo-Avant-garde (Vreme neoavangarde / ????? ????????????, 2012)
- Reality and Utopia (Stvarnost i utopija / ????????? ? ???????, 2013)
- Spaces of Signalism (Prostori signalizma / ???????? ??????????, 2014)
- Nemo propheta in patria (2014)
Books for children
- Mouse in Kindergarten (Mi? u obdani?tu / ??? ? ?????????, 2001)
- Crazymeter (Blesomer / ????????, 2003).
Book-works
- Fortran (1972)
- Approaches (1973)
- Signal-Art (1980)
- Zlatibor (1990)
- Forest Honey (?umski med / ?????? ???, 1992).
Anthologies (editor)
- Signalist Poetry ("Signal", 1971)
- Concrete, Visual and Signalist Poetry, ("Delo", 1975)
- Mail Art - Mail Poetry, ("Delo", 1980).
Solo exhibitions
- Trip to Astroland (Belgrade 1969)
- Trip to Astroland-Hotbed (Ni? 1969)
- Kyberno (Belgrade 1969)
- Drawings, Signalist and Computer Poetry (Novi Sad 1969)
- Signalist explorations 1. (Communication, Eye) (Belgrade 1973)
- Mail Art (Belgrade 1981)
- Think About Signalism (Belgrade 1983)
- Signalist Research, Visual Poetry, Mail Art, (Vr?ac 1983)
- Signal Art (Retrospective Exhibition, Belgrade 1984)
- Conquered Space (Belgrade 1994/95)
- Signalism (San Francisco, 1997)
Some works in English
- Manifestos and other Essays
- Courses Of Signalism
- Poetry
- Poetical Diaries (1959-1968.)
- Fragments on Mail Art
- Planetary Communication (My mail art activities from 1970 to 1987)
- The Russian Neo-Avantgarde: Visual Poetry and Mail Art
- Third millennium spirituality
References
External links
- Official site of the author
- Signalism @ Project Rastko, e-library
- Official blog of the author
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