Özlem Avcı is a teacher, artist and DJ. In her sets, she combines traditional folk music, diaspora pop, Anatolian rock and belly dance music - sound spaces between memory, origin and the present. Her work moves between education, art and activism. She has performed at the Thalia Theatre (Lessingtage) and at the House of Namuz - Gazino. In co-operation with initiatives such as Semra Ertan or gwa Kolibri, she sees her artistic practice as an archive of migrant history.
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. Chroncler in Dorsten is Anna Haifisch.
© Anna Haifisch
© Anna Haifisch
„Vorbei am Baumarkt und dem geschlossenen Wettbüro, nach zwei schaurigen Eisenbahnbrücken, stand da plötzlich dieser kleine Kohlenwagen mit dem Namen des Angelsportvereins als liebevolle Erinnerung an alte Zeiten. Statt Erz und Kohle lugten ein paar erfrorene Blümchen hervor. Mit dem kleinen Wägelchen wäre ich gern durch Dorsten gerollt, musste aber leider meine kalten Füße benutzen.“ - Anna Haifisch
© Matthew James Wilson
Anna Haifisch writes and draws comics, works as an illustrator for national and international media and designs print series, posters and design products.