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Voices Offstage

by Monika Gintersdorfer, Jeewi Lee, Sybille Peters, Nora Sdun, Boris Sieverts & Raul Walch

Spring 2020 was held in private, inside one’s own four walls – a space seemingly so familiar that now suddenly felt so new. And a space that the corona measures made feel more enclosed, yet at the same time more public than ever before.

In these times of social distancing, curfews and closed borders, six voices from the world of art have considered certain questions: What impact have these changed conditions had on urban space, public life and the community? How can we create a transfer between our interior and exterior spaces? Or is it precisely the divorce between inside and outside that offers an opportunity to draw positive aspects from the pandemic?

The Voices:

Boris Sieverts – Fairground without the Fair
Jeewi Lee – 33°31’40.0"N 7°48’15.8"W
Sybille Peters – Assemblies in Crisis
Nora Sdun – Rambling in the Mind
Raul Walch – Art in the Time of Cholera
Monika Gintersdorfer – ensemble / together

Irrlichter tour in Steele

On a Saturday morning, under the heatwave called El Niño, I went on a walk in Essen-Steele with seven people and visited public artworks created specifically for places you wouldn't normally enter ...

Beyond the imaginable

Eva Koťátková in conversation with Britta Peters about the exhibition My Body Is Not An Island

Loss of Control Is the Necessary Condition for Sleep

To what extent do working conditions influence our sleep behaviour? In the post-industrial era, do we sleep better or do digitalisation and the unboundedness of working conditions deprive us of sleep?