#Logoskop
Event series
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| Free admission, ticket required |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
Once a month since 2021, the Humboldt Lab has been hosting artistic freedom to shake up the scientific point of view. Equipped with a microphone and amplifier, two slam poets stroll through the exhibition “After Nature” to recite texts. Between a digitally animated school of fish, a fifteen-metre-wide satellite view of the world and deceptively real-looking, 150-year-old replicas of apples, visitors are taken on a “verballistic flight” through the science exhibition.
The changing artistic duos of the #Logoskop transform the images from the world’s microscopes and periscopes into a poetic show. They offer a deliberately subjective, heretical, humorous look at the exhibits.
If science is queen in the Humboldt Lab, then the #Logoskop is her court jester. With surprise, provocation and anarchic wordplay, the exhibition “After Nature” will be both explored and taken for a ride.
The #Logoskop is curated and moderated by Bas Böttcher, the first German poetry slam champion.
Bas Böttcher is one of the co-founders of the German-language spoken word scene. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and has lived in Berlin since 2000. His texts are considered exemplary for contemporary stage poetry. They appear in school textbooks (Schroedel, Cornelsen, Klett) and important collections of German poetry (Der Neue Conrady, Lyrikstimmen, etc.).
He has also published the three volumes of poetry “Dies ist kein Konzert”, “Neonomade” and “Vorübergehende Schönheit” with Voland & Quist. Bas Böttcher has performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie concert hall (Hamburg), and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) as well as at book fairs in Beijing, Guadalajara, Moscow, São Paulo and Bangkok.
Bas Böttcher is the inventor and programmer of various media formats for poetry. He developed the electronic hypertext Looppool as a new form of expression on the Internet. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the Kulturakademie Baden-Württemberg, the University of the Arts in Berlin and at Goethe Institutes worldwide.