Opening
18:00Meeting at Mendebrunneni am the person who will lead you through these three afternoons/evenings.
we will walk, as one does during the lockdown, however this time with the help of art… and me, who will give you important impulses. i usually lead tours on the history of Leipzig. i’ve never given a tour of an art exhibition to this extent before. It’s also quite exciting for me as well to fill these three evenings with impressions of other people. and so, i invite you all to take part during this first discursive tour.

fragility (german: fragilität) is a rather new word in the german language, it emerged only in the 19th century and derives from the latin word for brittle or easily broken (german: zebrechen). interestingly, within the word itself is agile (german: agil), movement, with great mobility.
even large bite of the university building’s facade keep falling off, which is why it’s fenced off in some places. stability is often just an illusion. is fragility, too?
fragility, as opposed to stability, is, in my view, a description of every existence that can be measured, like temperature. however, humans like to take this over with language, which is much too simplified. the measurement is “stable” and “fragile”. this is possibly why agility is within fragility. it is a moving state, a motor for self-preservation.here at Augustusplatz, many years after the demonstrations of the peaceful revolution, a demonstration in denial of the corona virus took place in 2020 and in 2015 right-wing extremists, like Thomas Elsässer and Lutz Bachmann, marched here and sang all three verses of the german national anthem. they also spoke of “walking”. counter demonstrators used “blockades”. what does that mean socially, when there is an attempt to prevent this movement? in front of the Europahaus, an imam with a rainbow flag stood in the way of demonstrators, he was arrested, the demonstration continued. fear was the theme of the demonstration and power. a grieving of old worlds. so what is this, this fragility? an eternal march of mourning that always overruns the old?

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