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Fedir Tetianych

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Who has never dreamt of eternal life or navigating outer space? Such dreams were an essential point of departure for the diverse artistic practices of the Soviet-Ukrainian artist Fedir Tetianych (born 1942 in Kniazhychi, in the Kyiv region, died 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine). These practices included extravagant performances in public spaces that shook up the grayish Soviet realia, paintings, or state-commis­sioned monumental works.

Tetianych was a visionary who was influenced by the ideas of space exploration and the flight of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to space in 1961. Seeing the limita­tions of a mortal body faced with the infinite universe, Tetianych envisioned ways to overcome life’s limitations. His ideas were intended to support the biological body with the new technologies aimed at exploring space. Keen on developing scenarios for the future, the artist invented the so-called Biotechnosphere, an alien capsule 2.40 meters in diameter that was designed as an autonomous dwelling for humanity both on Earth and in space.

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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