From <i>I Ching</i> to the Beatrice Concerts

Abstract Judit Kemenczky is one of the most important Hungarian neo-avant-garde female poets, although relatively few people seem to know her oeuvre. As a member of the Fölöspéldány [Duplicate] Group, she performed at several „literary evenings” and meetings combined with rock concerts (mostly with the group Beatrice), where participants from literary backgrounds often presented their works in an almost performance-like manner. This subversive way of presentation, or even the neo-avant-garde poetics of her texts, played with and subverted at the same time esoteric themes and motifs borrowed from different historical periods and cultures. East Asian culture was an important source for her work, and she integrated I Ching [The Book of Change] also into her writing. In my study, I will focus on this connection in Judit Kemenczky’s works, i.e. the complimentary dualism of tradition and experimentation, as well as of movement and constancy.