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Wasim Ghrioui

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During 2018/2019 Wasim Ghrioui is participating in our residency programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr. Born in 1981 in Damascus, Syria, he is a multidisciplinary artist working in the visual arts, literature, music, directing and film. From 1998 to 2011 he worked full-time in mosaic art and participated in group and solo exhibitions in Syria, the Arab world and also internationally. In 2012 he left Syria because of the on-going war, and since 2013 has been living and working in Berlin. His current artistic focus is on autobiographical writing that also encompasses both experimental theatre and filmmaking. For the last two years he has been teaching 'Artist Training for Professionals' at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is also one of the principal artists in the Trickmish team, giving art classes at several German high schools. In the participatory art performance TIN PIT, Ghrioui focuses on personal stories from life in Syria before the revolution. The piece has already been shown in its original form in Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen, Hannover and in several other cities. It is currently touring Germany.

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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