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Michael Akstaller

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Michael Akstaller is a researcher and artist working at the intersection of fluid dynamics, acoustics, and spatial sound studies. His practice explores the complex relationships between sound and space, movement and performance, often through interdisciplinary and collaborative formats. Akstaller’s work spans scientific research, artistic production, and curatorial projects.
His work has been presented internationally at institutions and exhibitions such as the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale (2024), Turkish Pavilion Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), Silent Green, Berlin (2023), Lenbachhaus, Munich (2021, 2022), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2021, 2022), the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2021), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2021), among others. Akstaller has held research and teaching positions at various scientific and academic institutions, including the Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Karlsruhe; the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg; and the Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz.
Michael Akstaller teaches Sound Practice Research at Folkwang University of the 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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