July 2025

Click image to enlarge "Alice" exploits the ambiguity of names to explore the fluidity of identity, the performative nature of gender, and how names can transcend traditional gender boundaries. The image presents a face split vertically down the middle against a stark black background. The right half displays masculine features rendered in grayscale, complete with Alice Cooper's signature black makeup streak beneath the eye. The left half reveals feminine features in natural skin tones, with lips painted a bold red. The two halves blend seamlessly...


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Click to view image completely When we see a picture of an artichoke or see one in real life, we immediately think of the word “artichoke.” When we hear or see the term “artichoke,” we simultaneously have an image of the plant in our minds. What's more, depending on our background knowledge and experience, it is then clear that we are dealing with a large edible flower bud or, more precisely, the unopened inflorescence of a thistle-like plant. In this poster, the artichoke takes center stage, albeit as an artistically depicted flower...


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Click image to enlarge “Poseidon's Curse” or “The Hubris of Odysseus” picks up on what essentially structures Homer's entire narrative of Odysseus' journey home after the end of the Trojan War. Poseidon curses Odysseus at the request of his son Polyphemus, a cyclops whom Odysseus blinded and mocked and to whom he foolishly revealed his identity. This behavior was considered excessively arrogant, an insult to the gods, and the curse caused Odysseus to reach his hometown of Ithaca only after ten years. The work depicts the scene in which...


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Click image to enlarge Although anything but comparable, a mudflat hike does have certain similarities to road cycling. In this work the slowest hikers on a mudflat hike have formed a group, the grupetto as it called in road cycling, and arrive commonly at their destination just in time, before the sea fog finally rolls in, the tidal creeks become raging torrents, and the tide comes in. Behind them lies an hour-long hike at low tide across the exposed seabed in the middle of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And as in road cycling, the broom wagon...


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Click image to enlarge English version Wie „POE sie Düstere Geschichte“ sind auch hier die folgenden neun Poe-Geschichten Ausgangspunkt für „POEtry Slam“: Das verräterische Herz, Das Fass Amontillado, Die Grube und das Pendel, Der Untergang des Hauses Usher, Ligeia, William Wilson, Die vorzeitige Grablegung, Morella und Hoppfrosch. Ziel war es, Poes Elemente in einem modernen Stil einzufangen und Poe in Form von performativer Poesie in die Gegenwart zu holen. Performance-Elemente (Onomatopoesie, Wiederholungen,...


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Click image to enlarge English version Alltägliche Handlungen führen oft zu bestimmten Ideen und damit zu neuen Transformationen. Beim Umräumen meines Bücherregals stieß ich auf „The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe“ und das Wortspiel „POEtry“ (POEsie auf Deutsch) blieb mir im Gedächtnis haften. Daraus entwickelte sich zunächst eine Kurzgeschichte im Stil von Poe und anschließend ein „POEtry Slam“.„POE sie Düstere Geschichte“ ist eine „sehr kurze“ Kurzgeschichte, die aus den Titeln...


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Click image to view completely A POEster about a writer who still has not been forgotten after 200 years, along with his works— “POEtica” is a tribute to a highly intelligent, eloquent (if sober) writer who was one of the first Americans to make a meager living solely from writing. He was a complex, sensitive person with real problems—alcoholism, depression, paranoid tendencies, and self-destructive behavior. So it is not surprising that the Poe myth paints a picture of a mad, alcoholic genius. But he is also the inventor of the detective...


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Click image to enlarge Deutsche Fassung Like “POEtry A Dark Tale,” the following nine Poe stories are the starting point for “POEtry Slam”: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, Ligeia, William Wilson, The Premature Burial, Morella, and Hop-Frog. The aim was to capture Poe's elements in a modern style, bringing Poe into the present in the form of performative poetry. Performance elements (onomatopoeia, repetitions, dramatic emphases) are presented in capital...


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Click image to enlarge Deutsche Fassung Everyday routines often lead to certain ideas and thus to new transformations. While rearranging my bookshelf, I came across “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe” and the wordplay ‘POEtry’ (POEsie in German) stuck in my mind. This initially developed into a short story in the style of Poe and subsequently into a “POEtry Slam.”“POE Try A Dark Tale” is a “very short” short story developed from the titles of these nine Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask...


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Click image to enlarge At least in my generation Herman Melleville's “Moby-Dick—The Whale” is not only still a household name but was also still read. I'm not so sure about today's generation. The work is nothing more than an adaptation of the novel published in the middle of the 19th century to modern times. The white whale is replaced by a black whale and Ahab meets his hated enemy with a fishing rod. This depiction reveals the novel's inherent view of the relationship between man and nature: the whale embodies the power and indifference...


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