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Jonas Leifert & Franziska Pierwoss

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Jonas Leifert works as a curator, dramaturge and cultural manager in the Ruhr area.  His current focus is on initiating artistic projects that address current social issues from the historical and regional perspective of the Ruhr area.

Franziska Pierwoss works as an artist in the field of performance and installation. With a strong focus on durational performance and collaborative practices, she develops site-specific installations that create situations of engagement, in which personal and political boundaries are called into question. Her performances havebeen shown at the Fast Forward Festival Athens, the Sharjah Biennial 13, at Halle 14, Leipzig and the Literaturforum Brecht-Haus, among others. She has worked for many years with Sandra Teitge creating dinner performances on questions of political, social and financial economies of waste management and has in various formats dealt with the social consequences of long-term pollution. Franziska Pierwoss gives workshops on the implementation of ecological sustainability in the arts and is the author of the Eco Rider.

Xanten

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.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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