Westhaus, Jasper

Jasper Westhaus (c) privat

Jasper Westhaus lives and works in Berlin and publishes essays and poetry in German and English. He studied Literary Writing and Media Art in Leipzig and Critical Studies in Amsterdam. Jasper is currently researching the historical formation of concepts of puberty and adolescence, their entanglement with European literary history, and possible emancipatory ways out of the normative constraints they produce.

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