“Under the title “WILD GRAMMAR”, the 2019 festival will address the question of the transformative power of language. We understand language in the broadest sense as verbal and non-verbal codes. Language creates our image of the world, shapes our interaction with it and with each other. It is never only a description of what is, but it also enables us to contradict and resist a status quo. Artistic languages in particular have repeatedly worked against the simplification and consolidation of our image from reality on: They have consciously produced (non)sense, cultivated contradictions, turned hierarchies upside down and invented new codes that allow us to see and experience the world in a different way: “wild grammar” as counter-speech and attempted liberation strike…”