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Laura Leppert

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Laura Leppert (*1993) works with film, installation and text. Her installations and cinematic spaces are constructed in fragments and are constantly in motion - architectures become characters, people pose as objects, objects circulate in space. Her narratives use a non-linear narrative style, characterised by micro-macro movements and hallucinatory wanderings through real places, their social or political logics and semantic nodes. Motifs and texts originate from research on social phenomena, language and its power of action, emblematic places and cultural tropes, which are poetically and rhythmically deformed. Built and pictorial environments that are entangled with themes such as possession, territory, economic ideal and individual desire are thereby decomposed and transformed.

In February 2020 Laura Leppert completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as a master student of Olaf Nicolai. She attended the CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies with Cécile B. Evans and Simon Starling, and in 2019 at the CSAV Artist's Laboratory of the Fondazione Ratti with Nora Schultz and Ei Arakawa in Como, Italy. Until 2020 she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; her final project Forecast, an experimental short film, was awarded the Graduate Award.

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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