Katalin Ladik - Phonopoetica (1976)

Katalin Ladik is a Hungarian poet, performance artist and actress. She was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now called Serbia) and in the last 20 years, she has lived and worked alternately in Novi Sad, Serbia, in Budapest, Hungary and on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Parallel to her written poems she also creates sound poems and visual poems, performance art, writes and performs experimental music and audio plays. She is also a performer and an experimental artist (happenings, mail art, experimental theatrical plays). She explores language through visual and vocal expressions, as well as movement and gestures. Her work includes collages, photography, records, performances and happenings in both urban and natural environments.

Her "Phonopoetica" record from 1976, which includes voice interpretations of Hungarian visual poets’ works, namely that of Gábor Tóth and Bálint Szombathy, in relation to jazz sequences and phonic experimentation.