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Paul Spengemann

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Paul Spengemann (*1987) studied fine art and film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and Goldsmiths University of London. In 2017, he was awarded the Federal Prize for Art Students, the ART COLOGNE Award for NEW POSITIONS and, in 2018, the Columbus Sponsorship Award from the Association of German Art Clubs (ADKV). In 2024, Paul Spengemann was a scholarship holder at Casa Baldi (Villa Massimo) in Italy. His work focuses on exploring different imaging techniques, particularly in the field of moving images. He often uses virtual reality in his work as a means of visibility and participation, in the sense that, for example, a laser show is projected onto a building in a public space. His works have been shown worldwide in numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including Villa Massimo Rome, LOOP Barcelona, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Goethe-Institut Mexico City, Wiener Art Foundation, SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Dortmunder Kunstverein e.V., Hamburger Kunsthalle and the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. 

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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