Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln
Publication
“Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln” is a collection of poems collectively written by the Young Valley Soil-collective during our stay at the Bibliothek Andreas Züst in Appenzellerland (CH). Over the course of six weeks, we wove the library’s books into our writing, ranging from reports of alien sightings to artists reflecting on their own practices, alongside impressions of the surrounding landscape, discoveries and encounters. This publication brings together 29 poems, full of cross-references to one another and to the library.
Publication
“Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln” is a collection of poems collectively written by the Young Valley Soil-collective during our stay at the Bibliothek Andreas Züst in Appenzellerland (CH). Over the course of six weeks, we wove the library’s books into our writing, ranging from reports of alien sightings to artists reflecting on their own practices, alongside impressions of the surrounding landscape, discoveries and encounters. This publication brings together 29 poems, full of cross-references to one another and to the library.
Mares and Night Hags
2-channel video installation
At night, the landscape begins to flicker. Bodies move through the terrain, their contours only becoming visible through the camera. Some lie down, withdrawing from the daily cycle of work and exhaustion. Who stays awake when others are long asleep?
The exhibition by Young Valley Soil presents an installative video work. It was filmed with a night-vision camera in the Swiss regions of Appenzell and Graubünden — among hills, fields, mountains, and forests.
FRISE Künstler*innenhaus, 2025
Hard to Swallow
Collective lecture performance
It starts with a queasy feeling. I see something I don’t have; a place I’m not in; an appearance that isn’t mine. I want it, I need it, envy gnaws at my stomach. I suppress it, don’t let it in, cover it with politeness. It builds up, resentment builds and gnaws at me. How am I supposed to digest all of this?
In the work “Hard to Swallow,” the Young Valley Soil-Collective invited guests to a performative lunch where they dedicated themselves to the manifestations of envy. The work consists of an audio piece for the journey to the performance, three on-site lecture performances, and a four-course menu - each course addressing different stages of envy: bitterness, envy, resentment, and digestion.
M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung Hohenlockstedt (Photos: Marie-Theres Böhmker)
march hares, cuckoos, nuts
Screen print on textile, bubble wrap, watch chain
200 cm x 150 cm, 30 × 42 cm
Cuckoos, March Hares, Nuts is a textile installation that uses the aesthetic strategies of psychiatric survivors movements (screen printing, cut-out techniques) to reflect on forms of representation of "madness" defined by the community itself. In the works, the cuckoo serves as an analogy for the simplifying mechanisms of imagery on people labelled as mentally ill.
CCA Berlin
Dazeland
2022
two-channel video installation
09:01min, stereo
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Dazeland explores water as a means of treatment and control in the history and present of European psychiatric institutions. In the work, the element of water serves as a metaphor for discipline and power but it is also depicted as a space of resolution, transformation, and security – a state of incompleteness. The changing and fleeing water serves as an analogy for the ever-shifting nature of historical narrative: The experiences of silenced positions trespass the surface through the demonstration of stigmas and power structures.
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Frappant Galerie