Kuhn, Benedikt

Benedikt Kuhn (c) privat

Benedikt Kuhn, lives in Berlin, works with writing in various media. He has published texts in Edit, ­ magazine, Texte zur Kunst and 3:AM Magazine. Performative and video works for Haus für Poesie, KV Leipzig, Lyrikkabinett Munich and Volksbühne Berlin. He is currently a doctoral fellow of the research initiative “The Disruptive Condition” with a project on the relationship between subjectivity, aesthetics and technology in Kant, Marx and Stiegler at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Festival Content

Poets´ Corner in Neukölln

ihre kometenschweife weisen sie aus als phänomene der zukunft

WerkStadt, Emser Straße 124, 12051 Berlin | Free entry

Under the firmament of an interactive star chart, we traverse lunar to lunatic word formations and survey the poetic space in changing constellations. We peek the moon and blink at the sun. We wait for signals. The stars know more than we do. Our gaze thinks figures between the dots and wonders whether it is reading or writing. We discover clues to our mission in our ascendants. We confuse beginnings and endings. When counting the grains, we hope for an odd number. Even at night we count the red from the sky. We no longer talk to fish. We’re going to reconfigure everything here now.

 

Arıbal, Çağla • Dorsch, Julia • Kuhn, Benedikt • Siglin, Crista • Westhaus, Jasper