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Jordi Colomer

Jordi Colomer's (*Barcelona 1962) practice spans film, photography, sculpture and installation, often involving collective participation. All his activity is tinged with a marked performative sense, testing through actions the habitual uses of architecture and urban space. Colomer is interested in the system of representations of the city and our ability to subvert them. From that investigation, underlying themes such as nomadism, the popular imagination, humor, community, suburbia, traditions, fiction and utopia emerge. In 2008, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris dedicated a major retrospective to him. Colomer has participated in two editions of Manifesta, in  St. Petersburg  (2014) und Palermo (2018). In 2017, he was chosen to represent the Spanish pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2024, he presented the exhibition “Façana Foto Festa Futur Fideus” at MACBA in Barcelona, his most ambitious solo shw to date. The exhibition brought together around fifty works dating from the late 1980s, in various formats including sculpture, collages, photography, video, installations, and live actions. For this exhibition, he received the 2024 City of Barcelona Award for Visual Arts.

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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