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Havîn Al-Sîndy

Havîn Al-Sîndy works in Kurdistan and Germany. Her artistic practice moves between performance, sculpture, painting, and moving images. At its core lies the relationship between visibility and invisibility – and the ambivalences that arise in the act of making visible. Intangible archives such as memories, body knowledge, cellular memory, and collective remembrance form the core of her work – fragile, contradictory, yet powerful forms of knowledge. She explores how these are transmitted, overwritten, or suppressed – and how they inscribe themselves in the body. Her approach is process-based and collaborative, often developed in intergenerational exchange with young people. The aim is to make silenced perspectives audible and visible – not as representation, but as part of a shared practice. Materials such as earth, clay, or paper signify not only origin, but also a form of knowledge that exists beyond traditional archives. She is currently a professor at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig.

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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