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Marc Kokopeli

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Marc Kokopeli (b. 1987) lives and works in New York. His work is overly concerned with how identity is formed during childhood. This could range from the infantilization of the subject, to how artistic discourse can be framed by educational curriculum. Recent work includes the making of Pampertaarten: a materials driven approach to the representation of the unborn child.

Recent solo exhibitions include Die Pampertaarten, Reena Spaulings, New York (2022); Elly 2003-2018, The Wig, Berlin (2021); How to Start a High-School Underground (with Adam Martin), Etablissement D’En Face, Brussels (2019); 90% Years Later, Lomex, New York (2018); Tales of the Veil, Edouard Montassut, Paris (2017); Songs of Hammy’s, Lomex, New York (2016). Recent group exhibitions include La réforme de Pooky, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg (2022); The Holding Environment - Parts I & II, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2021).

From July to September 2022, Marc Kokopeli is artist resident in the program Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr in Essen.

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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