Siglin, Crista

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Crista Siglin (she/they) moved to Berlin in 2017 after having grown up in the Midwestern United States. Her work varies in medium — oscillating between multiple visual forms as well as poetry. She explores the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. Christa Siglin was poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin from 2018 to 2023 and has released two collections of poetry. She currently runs Poetry As__A Workshop, and is an organizer for the experimental event series AKIMBO.

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