Haptic Erni in Hamburg

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The Haptic Werewolf of Hamburg has a birthday day today, August 1!

"ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ!" ...and many more Erni!

From the Off Scene Akademie of Hamburg, Erni does come by IUOMA to see waz up...

Soooo... post your greetings here and we'll be posting some ol' archive mail art from Erni too!

Friends celebrating with Erni at a Turkish restaurant:

Senator Watrin, he's looking happy and healthy...

and Mail Artist, Dadanautik arriving:

Erni's friends in Hamburg:

And Erni with friend Cemal!

Adding the link to the Collage-a-Day blog :-)

Collage-a-Day by Haptic Erni of Hamburg

Happy, Happy,Erni!

and many more years :-)

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New Year 2020 Miracle: It has arrived!!!

Sent on 5 December 2019, came today, FRIDAY, 3 January 2020!

Amazing especially for the LuftPost that usually delivers the next day :-)

Holiday packages and maybe came by truck?

Arrived safely and enjoying it all,

Thanks, Erni!

see blog:

• Holiday Mail Art from the Haptic Werewolf/Sheep

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Sunshine in Greece :-)

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Below zero in Hamburg...grey winter start to 2020:

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EAT ART for the New Year 2020! ChocoPo!

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Whereas Athens at night for the holidays:

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Doing the Street Speech Acts performance...

While walking through the city, taking turns, choosing paths or circumventing obstacles - in short: making selections - pedestrians interact with the city and create individual urban texts.
Thereupon, de Certeau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Certeau) compares walking to speech acts: “The act of walking is to the urban system what the speech is to the language“ (Certeau 1984: 97).
For de Certeau the “enunciative function of walking“

       is a process of appropriation of the topographical system [ … ],
       a spatial acting-out of the place ( … ), and it implies relations
       among differentiated positions (Certeau 1984: 97-98).

Just like the speech acts of language, therefore, pedestrian speech acts, as de Certeau calls them, weave the city together in subjective ways, each of them one possibility out of many others.
In that way, “each walk moves through space like a thread through fabric, sewing it together in a continuous experience.“ (Solnit 2002 [2001]: XV).

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cold...Winter walk and empty streets near Hamburg:

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