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Viola Relle & Raphael Weilguni

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Viola Relle (*1992 Budapest) and Raphael Weilguni (*1989 Augsburg) have been working together since 2012. Viola and Raphael create their works collectively. They model simultaneously on sometimes large ceramics, which become relics of a process of communication and negotiation that takes place while they are working. Nothing is chosen at random or lightly, because everything has to be justifiable in front of the other. Transformative processes, both in the landscape, such as the extraction of resources or ruins, and in the human body (digestion) emerge as themes in her works and establish connections between material and economy, landscape, architecture and body. Each sculpture is the result of its own developments, some of which are unforeseen due to the firing process. The integration of the sculptures into performative projects (e.g. Raphael and Franz have been making music for you since 2012) and the site-specific and collective projects of the two, such as the construction of an open workshop with a kiln in Munich or the exchange with passers-by on the streets of New York, which led to the work Hero, locate the traditional medium of ceramics in the present and open it up to a broader cultural and social exchange.

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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