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Vanessa Nica Mueller

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Vanessa Nica Mueller is an independent filmmaker and visual artist. Her films and artwork combine a documentary approach with a specific poetic visual language. She is focused on aspects of memory, the relation of human, nature and urban space, the uncanny and the construction of conditions. In her artistic research about fragile ecosystems the corelation between inner and outer climate changes forms a hybrid approach of essayistic cinematique language.

Her last short films Traces of an Elephant (2011), Half the Night (2012) and PLATEAU (2016) were shown at international film festivals and in the context of art exhibitions. Besides realizing her own films, she also works as academic lecturer in the field of film education and curates film screenings or artist talks.

From April—June 2021, Vanessa Nica Mueller was a resident at the Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen.

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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