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Poetry Lies In Between, “Appropriating Space – Urban Interventions” a selection of videos by Mathieu Tremblin
with Thomas Bratzke aka ZASD (DE), Michel De Broin (CA), Epos 257 (CZ), Gruppo Tökmag (HU), Dorothée Haller (DE), Hehe (UK, DE),
Antoine Hoffmann (FR), Deana Kolenčíková (SK), The Miha Artnak (SI), Tom Pope (UK), Ishem Rouiaï (FR), Philémon Vanorlé (FR)
9th September 2019, 20:00–21:00, CityLeaks Festival Center, Cologne

Leading away from earth—the first millimeter of air above its surface. (Marina Tsvetaeva)
In a series of 46 notes written around 1930, Marcel Duchamp cornered — instead of defining — the aesthetical concept of inframince [infrathin], trying to identify a barely invisible in-between space lying underneath the casual perception of our surroundings. Artist Rebecca Loewen refers to it as “the fine indirect perceptions of physical phenomena [...], the interval between an inhabitant and its environment that both connects and separates.” Poet Kenneth Goldsmith describes it as “the space between spaces, the sound between sounds, the sensation between sensations, neither here nor there, this nor that, but both — all at the same time” and art historian Thierry Davila traces its roots back to antiquity, with the sfumato painting technique, for example. The concept has been very influential in 20th-century art history, permitting to highlight almost invisible forms of art practices. It also allows one to refer to a poetic approach to everyday life, which capitalist society tends to reduce to purely technical and economic aspects. The screening “Poetry Lies In Between” focuses on artists that intervene in public space in a stealthy way and that seems to be led by an infrathin perception of the city.