Cultural Clash Nomade | Exhibition & Book

Cultural Clash Nomade was a transcultural, multi-city contemporary art project that travelled across six European stops (Leipzig, Nordhausen, Ludwigshafen, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and Geneva) exploring the politics of mobility, and migration in each respective region. It collaborated with key institutional partners, including the Offenes Haus der Kulturen (Frankfurt am Main), Duplex (Geneva), GfZK (Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig), Theaterplatz (Nordhausen), La Semencerie and Le Hall des Chars (Strasbourg). 

As part of this project, I initiated relations with Strasbourg partners and co-organised the film programme. My film, The Others, was screened at the Duplex. The newly published catalogue includes a text I wrote on nationalist currents and vegan 'nipsterism' which was presented on stage in the GfZK garden during the Leipzig segment of the CCN mobile project (2013) and re-visited for the purpose of publication in 2018. See: 'The Gourmet Nazi' pp.78-80.

Other theoretical contributions include texts from Michael Rieb, Rahel Zaugg, Miltiadis Oulios, Mark Terkessidis, Beppe Caccia, Giorgio Agamben and Ramón Grosfoguel.

Exhibited Artists: Felix Leffrank, Katya Lachowicz, Nicolas Rossi, Marion Goix, Angela Melitopoulos, Stephanie Marek, Mari Alessandrini, Christina Werner, Tilman and Karl-Friedrich König, Guillermo Fiallo Montero, Edna Martinez, Ilse French, Mandy Gehrt, Denise Garcia Bergt, Maman Salissou Oumarou, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, Güçlü Yaman, Matador, Strom & Wasser, Guillaume Mausset, Jakub Šimčik, Alba D'Urbano, Robson Missau Olbertz, Gottfried Binder, Cindy Cordt, Séverin Guelpa, Patric Jean, Bruno Ulmer, Kaveh Abbasian, Raul Ruiz, Anna Katherina Schierholz, Michael Graversen, Diego Vivanco.  

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THE BOOK 

Based on the eponymous mobile exhibition realised in 2013, the material interlaced throughout the publication comprises a wide selection of images collected between 2013 and 2020, from the events that took place and the works of art which were displayed, as well as a series of written contributions: Memories of the participants, video transcriptions, interviews with partners and a selection of theoretical texts. The text contributions, realised in the form of interviews and spanning a period of five years, document a social and political situation that has become more and more acute in this context, and show the ways in which institutions and social organisations are engaging with a steadily intensifying social climate.

The outer shape of the book, modelled on a folder, is suggestive of a process of archiving, while the body of the book is designed as a travel diary. The circuit follows the route taken in 2013, with every book section taking up the thematic focus of the respective station. The resulting six chapters are not hermetically separated from one another but rather treated as part of a continuum and are connected through the maps and pictures of the completed stages. The design awakens associations related to travel books and atlases. It suggests movement in the spatial dimension.

The multi-perspective character of the project is reflected in the design of the book by Valentina D’Urbano.

ISBN: 394713908X, 9783947139088