Jan Philip Scheibe German, b. 1972

What would the hybrid of a children's song sung on St Martin's Day, the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog and the myth of Sisyphus look like? This is exactly what the Lemgo-born artist Jan Philip Scheibe (*1972) demonstrates in an impressive and self-sacrificing way. Since 2009, his performance "shouldered streetlight" has taken him through Hamburg, via Helsinki, the Bergman island of Fårö to Lanzarote and Vitoria Gastaiz in Spain. He carries the ballast of a man-made permanent illumination of our planet and the human unstoppability of progress. Less than two hundred years have passed between candlelight at night and light-polluting, wall-sized neon signs. It is this ambivalence between evolution and innovation that comes glaringly to the fore in Jan Philip Scheibe's works. In his performances, progress becomes an act between stubbornness and optimism. Unperturbed, he carries his shouldered light, and yet the question remains: Where to? And for what?
The performance, which has been presented at international light festivals, sharpens the eye for the surrounding landscape and examines the changes caused by human influence.