Together with local partners, the Grand Snail Tour initiates artistic formats of exchange, participation and co-production in public areas in the region. Over the course of three years, it will travel through all 53 cities in the Ruhr region. The project addresses important questions of social coexistence in an experimental and innovative way: Who owns public space and how can we create places for communal activities or activate existing spaces? What role does art play in this? How can art come to the people instead of just waiting patiently for them? The Grand Snail Tour aims to leave a variety of impressions, offer shared experiences and invite people to join the journey.
- Address
Reparieren in Hünxe
Danziger Platz
46569 Hünxe
Events
Repairing in Hünxe
In her works, Canadian artist Darsha Hewitt explores how the raw materials of sound and electrical appliances are used and disposed of by consumer society. In Hünxe, she is working with discarded loudspeaker boxes and, in collaboration with the Repair-Café and local citizens, is creating an expansive sound installation in the urban space for the duration of the event. Aram Bartholl's sculpture Choir Of Missed Connections, focused on the dark side of digital networking, will be presented at the trailer for the first time. Lütfiye Güzel's current Local Blackout is based on the poetic analysis of a local supplement about Hünxe.
Letting Go in Hamminkeln
Kasia Fudakowski and Lydia Röder are members of The Association for the Palliative Turn (APT), a group that describes itself as “palliative curious.” In Hamminkeln, they will provide insights into their work, which addresses the finite nature of human life in very different ways. Kasia Fudakowski’s works are characterized by humor and ambiguity; some may already be familiar with her video installation Word Count and the Climate Changing Room at Silbersee 2 in 2021. In conversation with Britta Peters, she presents her new work Palliative Patterns. Berlin-based expert on dying, death, and mourning Lydia Röder will demonstrate how the body tambura instrument can be used in a sound performance.
Reading in Wesel
In the reading and subsequent discussion, the author Luna Ali, the illustrator Tobi Dahmen and the scientist and urban expert Barbara Welzel will explore the question of what can be learned and told about a city’s past, as well as about its repressed and ongoing history from its urban spaces.
Opening in Xanten
The artistic-performative journey will kick off on 26 September on the market square in Xanten with the mobile Snail Kiosk by artists Paula Erstmann and Lisa Klosterkötter, whose delicacies will be developed in collaboration with local young people. Mona Schulzek sends messages into space with her interactive sculpture Outer Space Transmitter and Duisburg author Lütfiye Güzel presents her first of 53 Local Blackouts, a poetic analysis of the local newspapers that accompanies the entire Grand Snail Tour. After the ceremony, Guy Dermosessian will join in with a live radio programme from the Cute Community Space in Bochum. Stay tuned and come along!