SERGEY BIRJUKOW
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Sergey Birjukow (1950,
Tambov region. Russia) - poet, literary critic, advantaged historian
and theorist. He started his creative literary and artistic activities
in 1967. He has been an actor, reciter, Theatre consultant, lecturer,
journalist. He graduated from the Philological faculty of the Tambov
State Teachers' Training Institute. He did his doctorate dissertation
in Philology. Since 1991 till 1998 Birjukow delivered courses of Linguistics
and General Poetics at the Tambov State University. He is the founder
and president of the International Academy of Zaum. He started his
poetic and criticism
activities in 1970. He is the author of the following poetry books
(including visual poetry): Long crossing (Voronezh.
1980), Writing from life (Moscow, 1989),
Zaum muse (Tambov, 1991), Sign of infinity (Tambov, 1995), Gloria
Tibi (Moscow. 1995), Sub alia forma (Tambov 1997), Prolegomena
to 199 (Tambov, 1997), Sound correspondences (Moscow,
1997). He is the author of a number of poetry publications both in
Russia and abroad, including the ones
in such magazines as Chernovik
(USA - Russia), Arion
(Russia), Action Poétique
(France), Zwischen den Zeilen
(Switzerland), Via Regia (Germany), Literary Review (Russia) and
others. He has been developing the tendencies of phonetic, zaum and
visual poetry, and general polyrhythmics. As a literary theorist and
historian Birjukow has been studying theory and history of the Russian
advantaged, he was the first to describe the Russian musical and poetic
theories of the 1910s-20s. In 1993 he held the International conference
"Poetics of Russian Advantaged"
in Tambov, and published the collection of the conference
materials. Then he annually held poetic conferences-festivals "Word"
(Tambov). He is the prizewinner of the International literary contest
in Berlin and a holder of A. Kruchonykh's International reward. His
main research findings are in the following books: Zeugma. Russian
poetry from mannerism to postmodernism (Moscow: Nauka,1994),
Baroque and advantaged lessons (Tambov:TSU, 1998), Theory
and practice of Russian poetic advantaged (Tambov: TSU, 1998).
He is the author of numerous publications in magazines and journals,
including such as: Experimental poetry. Selected articles
(Ko?Nnigsberg - Malbork: Simplicij, 1996). Point
of view. Visual poetry: 90s (Kaliningrad - Olzstyn:Simplicij,
1998), As a visual poet Birjukow participated in various exhibitions
in Russia, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Norway, he published his works
in
catalogues and anthologies. His verses were translated into Bulgarian,
German, Polish, Ukrainian, French, Italian and Japanese languages.
He
is the author of a number of oral productions from the history of the
Russian and world avant-garde (Tambov, 1989-90), of the introduction
to the audio collection Futurists. Gileya. Poets' voices and sounding
reminiscences (Moscow:National Literary Museum - Gileya Publishing
House,1995). He conducted phono-poetic performances in Tambov, Moscow,
Astrakhan, Saratov, Kostroma, St. Petersburg, and also in Poland, Finland,
Germany, Canada (with E. Mnatsakanova, B. Cobbing, M. Sutherland).
At
different periods his productions were broadcast on the Russian Radio,
Deulschlandfunk, Deutsche Welle. He is a member of the Russian
Writers' Union, of the Russian Union of professional literary and theatre
men. Sergei Birjukow lives and works in Halle (Germany).
