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Jahrgang 2021

© Daniel Sadrowski

For the 2020/2021 edition, the focus will be on artists whose work deals in the broadest sense with 'climate' and 'sleep', the thematic brackets of the Ruhr Ding editions 2021 and 2022.

The residencies, which generally last three or twelve months, are initially awarded independently of specific project proposals and enable artists to familiarise themselves with the region, incorporate this experience into their existing work or develop new ideas from it.

For the first time in 2021, the Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum and the Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen have opened their doors to artists who want to use the specific digital or content-related research opportunities for their work on site. Since the start of the programme, there have been collaborations with the KunstVereineRuhr, an association of various art associations and artists' houses in the region, as well as the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and the Makroscope - Centre for Art and Technology in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Artists

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Yuki Jungesblut

Yuki Jungesblut seeks out potentialities and instances of overlap between imagination, fiction and reality, often exploring underdetermined states and liminality in general.

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©Roland Baege

Viron Erol Vert

In his artistic practice, Viron Erol Vert probes – against the background of his own intercultural experiences – identity constructs and different aspects related to the self and the other.

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©Roland Baege

Vanessa Nica Mueller

Vanessa Nica Mueller's films and artwork focus on aspects of memory, the relation of human, nature and urban space, the uncanny and the construction of conditions.

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©Roland Baege

Thomas Taube

By means of multi-channel installations, associative, reflective and surreal sequences, Taube works against conventional cinematographic codes.

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Nicoleta Moise

Nicoleta Moise is a visual artist, writer and researcher with different mediums combining photography, video and performance and focusses on making visible less known stories, characters or events.

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©Roland Baege

Nadine Rangosch

Natural sciences, visual culture and mythological stories inspire Nadine Rangosch to build her own vocabulary, translating abstract concepts into spatial arrangements.

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©Roland Baege

Laura Leppert

Laura Leppert works with film, installation and text. Her installations and cinematic spaces are constructed in fragments and are constantly in motion.

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©Roland Baege

Kristina Paustian

Kristina Paustian examines cultural anthropological and socio-political topics. In cinematic images she focusses in particular on the themes of times of upheaval and technical utopias.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Julia Lübbecke

In her works, Julia Lübbecke deals with the relation between body and institution. She explores this connection to examine dominant structures of order and creates processes to make them fragile.

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©Roland Baege

Jessica Arseneau

Jessica Arseneau explores the way human perception and subjectivity is shaped by social codes, patterns of behaviour, accelerating culture and technological progress.

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©Daniel Sadrowski 

Guy Königstein

In his recent projects Guy Königstein researches the different ways we live the past in the present, for instance through practices of commemoration, archiving or archaeology.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

David Reiber Otálora

In his cinematic / sculptural works David Reiber Otálora deals with exoticisms and colonial representations of the so-called other and explores possibilities to affirm them into ambiguous narratives.

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©Roland Baege

Adriana Arroyo

Adriana Arroyo's works reference to geological activity, to reveal possible relationships between the movement of the Earth, politics and the fragility of the body and the mind.

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Local Blackouts

Lütfiye Güzel

A person in a brown leather jacket looks at a large printed newspaper on a stand with the heading 'Wesel'.

© Daniel Sadrowski

A sign with the word 'NACHRICHTEN' with an abstract newspaper layout with little text.

© Heinrich Holtgreve

Ausgangsmaterial ist ein besonders kurzweiliges Format aus dem Alltag: die Tageszeitung. Lütfiye Güzel, Poetin aus Duisburg und Vertreterin eines konsequent selbstverlegten, körpernahen Schreibens, lässt sich für die Grand Snail Tour von Projektpartner*innen und Passant*innen Lokalzeitungen und -beilagen aus den zu bereisenden Städten zusenden. Aus diesen Dokumenten erzeugt Güzel durch gezieltes Ausstreichen und Schwärzen von Textpassagen insgesamt 53 Gedichte — Local Blackouts —, die auf Aufstellern an jeder Station veröffentlicht werden.

Die Methode der Blackout Poetry ist eine Form der Found Poetry und wird bei Güzel zum politischen Akt. Das Schwärzen zitiert die Logik der Zensur, kehrt sie aber um, denn das unkenntlich Machen hat nicht Unterdrückung, sondern Verdichtung zum Ziel: Was bleibt, wenn der redaktionelle Lärm verschwindet? Lyrische Miniaturen, die in ihrer Knappheit dem Haiku ähnlich ist. Güzels Entscheidung, diese Textarbeiten im öffentlichen Raum zu zeigen, stellt zudem implizit die Frage: Für wen werden solche Texte geschrieben, und wer kommt darin vor?

Lokalzeitungen sind ein ambivalentes Medium. Sie fördern und informieren Nachbarschaften jenseits von Social Media — doch die Sprache und Nachrichtenauswahl ist häufig hetzerisch und vereinfachend. Tatsache ist, dass Lokalzeitungen an Bedeutung und finanzielle Unterstützung verlieren. Güzels Aneignung bewahrt und befragt dieses Erbe zugleich. Präsentiert auf herkömmlichen Presseaufstellern verleiht ihre Arbeit der Grand Snail Tour ein vertrautes Erscheinungsbild von regionaler Kultur und überführt diese gleichzeitig in die poetische Abstraktion.

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©Ben Knabe

Lütfiye Güzel

Lütfiye Güzel is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014.

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