Jaromír Typlt: It's the Speech Itself...
– Czechia
Born in 1973 in Nová Paka, he studied philosophy and Czech language and literature at the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University. He is a poet, essayist, editor, performer, and a curator (since 2000 at the Malá Výstavní Síň and U Rytíře Gallery in Liberec, since 2022 at the Art Brut Gallery in Prague). As a poet, he combines text with sound, movement, and imagery, as evident in his published work Stisk (Grip, 2007). He has also released other poetry collections, including Ztracené peklo (The Lost Hell, 1994; the Jiří Orten Award, 1994), Rozžhavená kra (White-hot Icefloe, 1996), Že ne zas až (That Not Until Again, 2003), Za dlouho (In a Long Time, 2016), etc. He is also the author of a monograph on the sculptor Ladislav Zívr (2013). "I believe we are not the masters of what we write," he said in an interview with Michaela Velčková. "On the contrary, when the texts take on their final shape, I consider myself more as a strictly trained servant who aims to fulfill someone's commands as perfectly as possible. It is the language itself that determines the rhythm, and we can, at best attune ourselves to it and understand what is being asked of us."