Thadeusz Tischbein - Poems for Stones (Performance)

In the organizer's words:

The camera takes us on a voyage of discovery, scans architectures and touches them instead of us. It makes us accomplices in its forays. Why do we approach bullet holes in buildings that must have been there for over 80 years? What specific events do they tell us about - so directly and physically in our everyday living space? And why have we not noticed them until now? What happens when we notice these traces again - does our view of the city and the stories it stores change?

"Poems for Stones" constructs connections, speculative, fragile, always at risk. Not in search of definitive answers, but with questions, curiosity and amazement at discoveries. And there are many of these discoveries - buildings for dead bodies in "Snow White", a lush animal world at national monuments in "Animal Kingdom" or office plants and their descendants in "Inventory".

On display are six video projections and, under the label "Fragments", a further six projects shown on monitors - archive collections, documentations, observations - all of which deal with architecture in the broadest sense.

"Poems for Stones" is the winning exhibition of the 29th Leipzig Annual Exhibition 2023, in which Leipzig video artist Thadeusz Tischbein was honored. It was created in collaboration with the Leipzig Annual Exhibition and with the support of the Schaubühne Lindenfels and the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. The prize was donated by Sparkasse Leipzig, the Elke-undThomas-Loest-Stiftung and the Doris-Günther-Stiftung and was dedicated to the Leipzig architect Winfried Sziegoleit (1939-2021).