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Thomas Taube

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In his artistic works, Thomas Taube (*1984) detaches the medium of film from its linear and stringent narrative structure. By means of multi-channel installations, associative, reflective and surreal sequences, Taube works against conventional cinematographic codes. By abolishing the immediacy of the medium through epic elements and discontinuous montage, his works aim for a differentiation between seeing, observing, experiencing and reflecting. 

He won the Prize of the Leipziger Jahresausstellung 2015, the Marion Ermer Prize 2016 and received different grants such as the ISCP New York residency by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony. His works are collected by different collections such as the Dresden State Art Collection. He published The Whirr of The Image Machine 2015 at Spector Books. For the Staatstheater Stuttgart, he conceived and directed the 16-part video walk Un/True. Currently, Taube is working on a 12-part film project, among other things, that deals with follower-ship, participation, and the concept of free will.

From April—June 2021, Thomas Taube was a resident at the KunstVereineRuhr.

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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