zu fuß zum rand: marseille und sein umland entdecken
HANNA MERTENS
I was born in the idyllic south-west of Germany and grew up in direct neighbourhood with the Ruhr Area, a region of coal mining and steel production. So to say, I am familiar with the sublimity of nature, but also "industrial romanticism". In the port cities Bremen and Marseille (german-french master program médiation culturelle de l'art) I discovered that these two conditions can be much closer than expected. My aim is to share my passion for this wild city that is Marseille, its outskirts and the exploration of what is in our immediate vicinity via the project Umgehbungen.
JENS DENISSEN
Ten years ago I left the Lower Rhine region in Germany to participate in a school exchange in France. Since then I have studied political science and urban planning in Paris. And I discovered and explored the city by foot - and especially its surroundings - with all its wrinkles. By the means of guided tours I tried to change the perception of our living environment that often is perceived as being trivial, although it is very complex. For my master thesis in landscape architecture at the "Ecole de Paysage de Versailles" I wrote about the GR2013. Because growth begins at the edges.
„It's daily life that is the most difficult to discover”
Maurice Blanchot, La parole quotidienne
„How should we name these ordinary things, how relocate them, track them down and how to snatch them from the pace they stick to ? How should one give them sense and a mode of expression for that they finally speak of what we are?"
Georges Perec, L'infra-ordinaire