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Paul Wiersbinski

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Paul Wierbinski studied video art under Mark Leckey and Douglas Gordon at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. He lives and works in Berlin. His projects operate at the interface between art, science and technology, touching on architectural discourse, entomology (the study of insects) and cybernetics. They reference the history of performance and video art, and frequently employ techniques of the joke and improvisation. Wiersbinski often constructs technical prototypes that are tested by the public and undergo various phases of development. The results of his artistic process are presented in various forms and media, frequently based on complex sets and installations. Many of Wiersbinski’s works have been created during international residency programmes in connection with scientific matters, such as CENART La Esmeralda, Mexico City (2010), Hotel Pro Forma Copenhagen (2013) and the Goethe Institute London (2018). His lectures and presentations include, 'Elektronische Visualisierung und die Künste' (Electronic Visualization and Art), British Computer Society London (2011); 'Tracing Mobility', Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2011); 'Push your art' Palais de Tokyo, Paris ( 2013), Club Transmediale Berlin (2014); 'Kunst im Zeitalter der Erdbeben' (Art in the Era of the Earthquake) Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2016); and his writings have been published by Fischer Verlag.

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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