CCA Berlin is pleased to launch the publication Displayed Words, bringing together texts from all past editions featuring twenty-one authors. This publication celebrates the diverse voices and perspectives presented as part of the project Displayed Words, which took place from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2025 at three public locations across the city. 

Initiated by CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts, Displayed Words is a project that presents poetry and literature on a four-meter-long digital display at various public locations in Berlin from 2022–25—at Klosterruine, Rathaus Tiergarten, and Staatsbibliothek on Potsdamer Straße. Concurrently, the displayed texts are published online at displayedwords.org, serving as a permanent archive for the project. 

Featuring twenty-one authors over the past three years, the project aims to bring literature into public space, and make room for various text forms (poetry, prose, lyrics, etc.) and different languages (German, English, Arabic, Spanish, etc.) within the urban environment. This publication indexes the project’s first three editions and serves as a basis for further developing the concept in the future. The texts are printed in the same visual style as they appeared on the digital display, adding a unique visual dimension that complements the meaning of the words.

The book includes texts by: Apsilon, May Ayim, Ingeborg Bachmann, Don Mee Choi, Tim Etchells, Athena Farrokhzad, Logan February, Angélica Freitas, Volha Hapeyeva, Hassan Khan, Quinn Latimer, Friederike Mayröcker, Otis Mensah, Rafael Moreno, Nhã Thuyên, Nazanin Noori, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rike Scheffler, Yasmine Seale, Kinga Tóth, and Hajra Waheed. Published by März Verlag, designed (publication, wesite, animation) by Ronnie Fueglister and Yves Graber.

To mark the occasion, we invite you to a poetry reading at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, where the project’s themes of identity, language, and urban memory will be activated through live performances. For the reading, we invite poets, artists, or writers to share their own words through an open call. 

To mark the occasion of the book launch, we initiated an Open Call for Poetry to expand our circle of poets and connect with Berlin’s local scene. We received a wonderful pool of submissions and have now selected five artists / artist-duo to share their own words on Tuesday. 

The artists are:

Hendrik Arns (reading by Samuel Simon)
Jamila Barakat
Ece Eldek
Giulia Ottavia Frattini
Quang Nguyễn-Xuân & Nam Anh Nguyễn-Quốc.

Looking forward to seeing you there!