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Dana Kavelina

Black and white portrait of artist and filmmaker Dana Kavelina, who works primarily with video and animation.

© Kateryna Turenko

Dana Kavelina (*1995) is an artist and filmmaker from Melitopol, now living between Lviv and Berlin. In her practice encompassing primarily video and animation, she often touches upon military violence and war, historical and individual trauma, memory, and critical perspectives on the historical canon. Her works were presented in the Kyiv Perennial in Vienna, at the 60th Venice Biennale, at the M HKA Antwerp or the festival steirischer herbst amongst others. Furthermore, her film Letter to a Turtledove from 2020 was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dana Kavelina is the winner of the 7th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize and is shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2024.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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