In Context: Über die Kraft und den Widerstand der Poesie

The format is accessible to all, broad in subject matter and invites local experts from different societal spheres to engage in a shared dialogue with the audience. In this session, we will focus on the poetic aspect present in the work of the artist Shimabuku (Kobe, 1969). His artistic expression does not come from within, but rather questions our habits and the way we perceive things through the power of the imagination, amidst associations and reversals.

Shimabuku disrupts our world view through subtle provocations and ironies. The fact that our present is continuously threatened today does not prevent the artist from representing it artistically through wonder and joy. In conversation about the power and resilience of poetry, Brita Köhler talks with Christine Vescoli, director of Literatur Lana, and poet and award-winning language artist Greta Maria Pichler, in an artistic dialogue with Shimabuku.