What is it that makes a place distinctive? A kind of stubbornness perhaps? How can this quality be accessed through text and artistic research?

These questions are explored by Tobias Becker, Elisabeth Brun, Stefanie Bürkle, Knut Ebeling, Alex Gross, Carla Hinrichs, David Karl, Lars Ostenfeld, Ulrike Ottinger, Lola Randl, Emily Strange, Zsuzsanna Toth, Katrin Wegemann, Lawson Wood and Dong Zhou, who bring their varied disciplines to bear on the matter.