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The annual theme: 'Apocalypse and World Salvation'.

2020 the programme focused on end-time scenarios and narratives in the two workshops by Margit Czenki and Immanuel Grosser. In the case of 2021, possible future horizons of world salvation and the aesthetics of associated political movements are in the foreground under the leitmotif "make world".

make world
Statement Margit Czenki
Wer über das vorgegebene Thema „Apokalypse und Weltrettung“ spricht, bewegt sich von vornherein innerhalb biblisch geprägter Traditionen und Muster. Die Begriffe sind groß und total, fordern schwarz und weiß. Der Evangelist Johannes wollte mit seiner Vision aufrütteln, sie sollte mobilisieren und erschüttern.
Ist „Weltrettung“ nicht ein zu großer Begriff? Zu konservativ? Zu selbstironisch? Und viel zu sehr auf „Scheitern“ programmiert? Geht es nicht vielmehr darum, der Normalität des Weltgetriebes, die die Weltzerstörung routinemässig betreibt, zu entkommen, davon abzuweichen, das „Deutschland. Aber normal.“ zu unterbrechen?
Der Titel dieses Workshops ist „make world“.
„make world“ ist ein Linux-Befehl, der, während das System läuft, ein komplett neues Betriebs-System installiert. Es ist also genau das Gegenteil von: „Festplatte plattmachen“ und danach „neuinstallieren“, um im Computerbereich zu bleiben, oder „erstmal die Welt zerstören, damit aus der Asche eine Bessere entstehen kann“, wie es sich totalitäre Ideologien und Religionen erhoffen. Es meint: Die Welt grundsätzlich
anders funktionieren zu lassen, ohne zunächst alles vorhandene anzuhalten, neu anzuschaffen, neu zu bauen, Regierungen zu übernehmen etc.
In der neueren Theoriebildung nennt man solche Praktiken außerhalb der Logik der Kapitalakkumulation „welterzeugende Praktiken“. Das können natürliche oder pflanzliche Vorgänge sein, ebenso wie prekäre Beschäftigungen, die orts- und situations-spezifisch Beziehungen schaffen, kleine Ökonomien, die nicht skalierbar sind.
Nach einem Input von mir zum Thema, gehen Sie selbst auf die Suche: Ich möchte, dass sie sich in der Umgebung umschauen, und solche Praktiken der Welterzeugung finden. Dabei geht es eben nicht um den großen Wurf, sondern um Momente die das Potential haben, anders zu funktionieren, um Orte, Menschen,
Einrichtungen, die Beziehungen herstellen, um soziale oder ökologische Biotope der Nichtverwertung – im allerweitesten Sinne! Finden sie so ein Gefüge, stellen Sie es dar, als Miniatur in einer Zeichnung, einem Video, einer Fotoserie, einem Gedicht....

Margit Czenki is a filmmaker and artist. Her debut, the feature film Komplizinnen (1987) was screened and televised worldwide. She participated in documenta11 in 2002 with the collective project Park Fiction. In 2003 she curated the congress Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space in Hamburg (with Christoph Schäfer). Also jointly produced was the work Videotaxi in 2007, a rolling analysis of Hamburg's neoliberal urban development policy. In 2012, together with Christoph Schäfer and quartiervier architekten, Czenki designed the ContainerUni for Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. As a founding member of the interdisciplinary planning team PlanBude, Czenki is currently organising participation in the replanning of the ESSO houses on St. Pauli and in September 2016 she co-curated the Hamburg section of the festival "Urbanize - Housing the Many - Stadt der Vielen" (with "dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung", Vienna). With the team of "FABRIC - Planung als Plattform" in Lörrach near Basel, she is designing and planning a new urban district.

http://margitczenki.net

http://containeruni.de

http://planbude.de

http://fabric.place

make world
Statement Jerry Elliott

The whole of life is a cycle. It is about being born, growing and dying. There is no difference between plants, animals or humans. And even stones are born from volcanoes, they grow in a lava flow and end up as sand in the ocean. We cannot save ourselves from this cycle of life, because it is a universal
principle.

All we can do is grow in our minds and learn to respect the never-ending cycle of life. Make world.
Your world, my world and our world, it is making a change by breaking the chains of neglect and selfish desire.

We cannot talk about this subject of "world" without referring to history, the Bible.
In the book of Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may RULE over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. He went on to say to the humans, go ye into the earth and MULTIPLY. "

To rule over something means to dominate and control it, but do we rule over the earth accordingly or does the earth rule over us? To multiply means to become bigger or to have more of that thing. Do we get more of the world, or do we lose it? It also means that we are losing ourselves.
In my personal opinion, we can make the world, first our world, and then reach the others,
but when I see how we are treating the Earth right now? I don't think we can save the earth.
Saving the Earth should be everyone's goal, because only those who live can make a difference, so let us be our brothers' keepers. Because what we do between our birth and our death sets the tone and the pace for the generations to come.

Make world.

Make your own world in the world you live in by starting your morning with gratitude.
When we learn to thank God for allowing us to experience the day, we will learn to respect our bodies and then Mother Earth.

So make your world, your body and soul, spiritual and physical, and then in that way we make the world a better place.

Shalom.
Jerry Elliott

Jerry Elliott is a former professional boxer and now a motivational coach and fitness trainer.
Boxing as a form of helping, not only for more strength, concentration and endurance but also for more self-confidence and as a way out of violence, has become his purpose in life. In the Salus Clinics, a rehabilitation centre in Hürth near Cologne, he helps people on their road to recovery to stand up straight again and achieve their goals. The BioTune^® training method he developed teaches how to network body and mind to overcome pain and fear. In addition to his work as a coach, Jerry Elliott writes short stories and songs in which he reflects on his eventful life story.

http://jerry-elliott.com/

Thematic focus of the Fall Term 20 workshop: Apocalypse and World Salvation

In the context of this year's annual theme 'Apocalypse and World Salvation', the two workshops by Margit Czenki and Immanuel Grosser focus on current end-time scenarios and narratives, possible future horizons and the aesthetics of associated political movements.

Workshop on Artistic Urban Research
Urban Space and Apocalypse (Margit Czenki)

In 1498, Albrecht Dürer produced an ingenious series of woodcuts that made the young artist famous throughout Europe at a stroke: The Apocalypse of St. John the Evangelist describes the downfall of a false world as the loss-filled beginning of a new and better order. In Dürer's prints, the punishment of the mendacious ecclesiastical dignitaries is still a fiction, but one that shortly afterwards fires up criticism of the conditions in reality as well. Finally, the apocalypse is linked to the desire for reform and leads to the great revolt in German history, the Peasants' War.

After an inspirational input from Margit Czenki on the topic, in this workshop they will go on an excursion into the surroundings, take photos and choose two pictures at the end: One with a situation before the apocalypse - and one with a situation after. In a short text they will describe what will happen and what has happened. These two pictures and their text together make up the work.

Margit Czenki is a filmmaker and artist. Her debut, the feature film Komplizinnen (1987) was shown worldwide and broadcast on television. She participated in documenta11 in 2002 with the collective project Park Fiction. In 2003 she curated the congress Unlikely Encounters in Urban Space in Hamburg (with Christoph Schäfer). Also jointly produced was the work Videotaxi in 2007, a rolling analysis of Hamburg's neoliberal urban development policy. In 2012, together with Christoph Schäfer and quartiervier architekten, Czenki designed the ContainerUni for Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. As a founding member of the interdisciplinary planning team PlanBude, Czenki is currently organising participation in the replanning of the ESSO houses on St. Pauli and in September 2016 she co-curated the Hamburg section of the festival "Urbanize - Housing the Many - Stadt der Vielen" (with "dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung", Vienna). With the team of "FABRIC - Planung als Plattform" in Lörrach near Basel, she is designing and planning a new urban district.

http://margitczenki.net
http://containeruni.de
http://planbude.de
http://fabric.place

Workshop Space & Self / Yoga & Building
Sovereignty as World Salvation (Immanuel Grosser)

When world salvation and hope for society's emancipation from its own constraints seem to be receding further and further into the distance, the question arises as to whom the sense of what is right or the awareness of what is wrong benefits? Reformulating Adorno's ethical-political postulate, according to Michael Hirsch we would have no choice but to look for traces of the right life in the wrong in general and in particular. And this in the awareness of the impossibility, but also in the awareness of the possibility of the impossible.

Finding a common peaceful practice that unites all seemed impossible in the times of the Cold War. Following an apocalyptic vision of nuclear war, the yoga master Swami Vishnu Devananda searched for a way to free people from their separatist thinking and developed the world's first yoga teacher training. In doing so, he set in motion a yoga movement that spanned the globe. As a peace activist, he flew over militarily secured borders (e.g. Belfast, Suez Canal, Jerusalem, Lahore or Berlin Wall) in his pop-coloured peaceplane and "bombed" main crisis areas with flowers and yoga scriptures to make unity in diversity and the individual yoga discipline visible as a microcosm of global social change. The politically engaged peace efforts were a logical continuation of the internalised yoga. The centripetal forces mobilised through introspection of yoga have a centrifugal effect in a social Darwinist climate. For the sovereignty of the individual attained through ascetic practice is not self-empowerment enforced at the expense of the community.

While the ethical question of the right life for progressive thinking coincides with the question of the right institution of society, for the practice-oriented yogi the question of the evaluation of the political system only ever arises directly and in contact with the individual. Social change will only succeed if each individual is prepared to go beyond his or her personal limits. If I want to change a cotton cloth into a silk scarf, it is only possible if every single thread is changed.

The workshop will give a theoretical and practical introduction to the 4 classical yoga paths. In the process, we will train the implicit intertwining of space and self-awareness through introspection and observation exercises and create a small personal sanctuary in the form of a colourful altar.

Benita and Immanuel Grosser have been developing international exhibitions and artyoga projects since 1989. In addition to teaching at various universities, state theatres and museums, they offer coaching courses at the Hamburg Federal Performance Centre and Olympic Training Centre. In Hamburg they run Y8, a space for art and yoga practice. Behind it is a transdisciplinary collective of artists, designers, architects and yoga teachers. The unifying element of the Y8 collective is the common yoga practice. Y8 was founded in 2000 with the intention of placing contemporary art and yoga in a productive relationship of tension. In the Y8 art space, yoga is practised and taught in international exhibition projects. For the Artyoga projects, the collective works with internationally renowned artists such as John Baldessari, Channa Horwitz, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Karin Sander and Lawrence Weiner. At the centre of the collective's context-specific artyoga projects is the individual experience of space. The artistic confrontation with external factors gives rise to site-specific installations that enter into a dialogue with the yoga practice.

https://www.artyoga.de/

Thematic focus of the Fall Term 19 workshop: Economies of Visibility.

The production of images determines social life today. We live in an era in which world relations are shaped by ubiquitous and virally distributed images. Bloggers, influencers and, above all, algorithms direct the gaze and social media platforms have risen to become global, state-like companies. Are we living in a totalised visibility and transparency in which seemingly hardly anything can remain invisible? The structures and conditions under which visibility, attention or even public perception are gained have changed just as fundamentally as the forms of image production.

As part of the annual theme "Economies of Visibility", the workshops "Conceptual Cooking: The Table as Stage" by Caique Tizzi and "Yoga: Raum + Selbst / wear room" by Immanuel and Benita Grosser will explore these questions with a focus on our bodily-sensual knowledge and the resulting options for action.

Workshop Conceptual Cooking
The Table as Stage (Caique Tizzi)

Food is our most social activity – approachable to everyone – it is a fundamental element of our everyday life, a common denominator, a source for energy, ideas and conflicts as well. Like language and art, flavor connects to memory, and represents where we come from and who we are. Recently, food has also been central in the development of contemporary artistic practices, such as performances, installations, etc. Artists have expanded beyond representational imagery to explore the physical properties as materials in art production as well as its economic, social, political and environmental aspects. Another relevant question resides in the fact that in an over-saturated, object-driven art market, this type of practice also brings “visibility” to the condition of the cultural worker. It becomes a mean to generate income, subverting its original system, creating a new economic structure, in a way that the art work can also be seen / sold as service. The aim of this workshop is to collectively reflect the urgency of making what is basic, what is a given – visible. Through a hands-on approach, touching on the intersections between the fields of the culinary and art, the participants will be asked to create and reflect on the theatralization of food: using the table as the stage, developing visual edible landscapes, settings, tableau-vivants, instagram posts, nature-morte through the ordinary act of eating and being together.

Caique Tizzi was born in São Paulo in 1984. He lives and works in Berlin and is the co-founder of Agora Collective in Berlin, which focusses on investigating the development of relational practices, experimental methods of group work and interdisciplinary processes. It is also known for its artistic approach to food. Part studio, part laboratory – Agora ́s kitchen has previously functioned as a place where notions of collaboration and self-organization are put into practice. Tizzi has launched I am Hungry – a platform that merges the arts with culinary practices creating occasions to unite people and their disciplines. His projects have received the support from Creative Europe, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point and Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur, São Paulo and Madrid. Caique Tizzi’s artistic work has been shown at places like KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Gropius Bau, Berlinische Galerie, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Kunstverein Düsseldorf amongst others.

Workshop Yoga
Raum + Selbst / wear room (Benita & Immanuel Grosser)

An elderly woman crawls along the pavement under the light of a lantern. A man who comes across her in the dark, asking her what she is doing, is told that she is looking for a lost needle. After a while of searching together, he asks for the exact place of her loss and gets the answer that she had lost the needle in the house. Yes, the man wonders, why doesn't she search there too? The woman replies that there is no light in the house.

The classic example from Indian mythology describes the outward-looking mind that focuses its attention on visible objects because it has not been trained to perceive the invisible world of the interior. In a way, this habit anchored in the mind corresponds to today's "overdose of visibility", the media power of attention, signs and images.

Yet, Pierre Bourdieu says that "the essence of a social universe, namely relationships, are invisible". In fact, they remain so at least until the relationships between individuals and their surrounding fields are perceived in a differentiated way. Yoga trains self-awareness and self-reflection and thus sharpens the sense for one's own conditionality, the basis of every relationship habitus to other people and things.

Yoga opens up one's own self-sufficiently existing inner space of discovery. Yoga makes an inner plateau visible by interrupting with the stimulus-response pattern also the need to immediately externalise oneself. On this inner plateau, thoughts expand, one gains a new outlook and with it the possibility of an authentic decision that does not react compulsively to the signs and images pressing in from outside, but emerges from genuine cognitive power.

In the workshop we will learn the classical basic postures, breathing exercises and concentration techniques as well as theoretical explanations of the functions of the mind. We will also build a blinker construction - the "wear room".

Benita and Immanuel Grosser have been developing international exhibitions and artyoga projects since 1989. In addition to teaching at various universities, state theatres and museums, they offer coaching courses at the Hamburg Federal Performance Centre and Olympic Training Centre. In Hamburg they run Y8, a space for art and yoga practice. Behind it is a transdisciplinary collective of artists, designers, architects and yoga teachers. The unifying element of the Y8 collective is the common yoga practice. Y8 was founded in 2000 with the intention of placing contemporary art and yoga in a productive relationship of tension. In the Y8 art space, yoga is practised and taught in international exhibition projects. For the Artyoga projects, the collective works with internationally renowned artists such as John Baldessari, Channa Horwitz, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Karin Sander and Lawrence Weiner. At the centre of the collective's context-specific artyoga projects is the individual experience of space. The artistic confrontation with external factors gives rise to site-specific installations that enter into a dialogue with the yoga practice.

Thematic focus of the Spring Term 19 workshop: Islands of Freedom
What does freedom mean in the 21st century? Is it liberal or libertarian? Do political freedoms count most or personal and economic ones? What value is attached to freedom when neuropsychological debates deny humans freedom of will and digital networking develops into total surveillance? And what effect do these debates and developments have on our personal, political and legal self-image? How should we interpret the fact that right-wing populists, increasingly guided by resentment, are stylising themselves as freedom fighters?

Quite obviously, the course of history does not aim at ever-increasing liberalisation. Rather, we live in times in which algorithms and Big Data increasingly determine thinking and action. So where are we still free? Are art and science still suitable bastions of freedom? And if they are, what figures of thought and options for action do they offer in the struggle for freedom?

As part of the annual theme "Islands of Freedom", the workshops "Conceptual Cooking" by Caique Tizzi and "The BioTune Method" by Jerry Elliott explored these questions with a focus on our bodily-sensory knowledge and the resulting options for action.

Workshop Conceptual Cooking
I am Hungry (Caique Tizzi)

Food is our most social activity – approachable to everyone – it is a fundamental element of our everyday life, a common denominator, a source for energy, ideas and conflicts as well. Like language and art, flavor connects to memory, and represents where we come from and who we are. Recently, food has also been central in the development of contemporary artistic practices, such as performances, installations, etc. Artists have expanded beyond representational imagery to explore the physical properties as materials in art production as well as its economic, social, political and environmental aspects. Another relevant question resides in the fact that in an over-saturated, object-driven art market, this type of practice also creates »islands of freedom«, i.e. new means to generate income, subverting its original system, creating a new economic structure, in a way that the art work can also be seen / sold as service. The aim of this workshop is to collectively reflect through a hands-on approach on the intersections between the fields of culinary and art. The “I am Hungry” workshop invited the participants to create a conceptual meal, exploring the potential of being together to generate a support system for original concepts.

Caique Tizzi was born in São Paulo in 1984. He lives and works in Berlin and is the co-founder of Agora Collective in Berlin, which focusses on investigating the development of relational practices, experimental methods of group work and interdisciplinary processes. It is also known for its artistic approach to food. Part studio, part laboratory – Agora ́s kitchen has previously functioned as a place where notions of collaboration and self-organization are put into practice. Tizzi has launched I am Hungry – a platform that merges the arts with culinary practices creating occasions to unite people and their disciplines. His projects have received the support from Creative Europe, Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point and Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur, São Paulo and Madrid. Caique Tizzi’s artistic work has been shown at places like KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Gropius Bau, Berlinische Galerie, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Kunstverein Düsseldorf amongst others.

Workshop The BioTune Method
Know your Body (Jerry Elliott)

The BioTune Method develops a heightened awareness of the relationship between our physical-sensory self and the outside world. A combination of different body and experience techniques such as Pilates, yoga, bodypump and vocal exercises, the workshop sets the body in motion and confronts it with extraordinary experiences of pressure, stretching and mood. The BodyTune method is suitable for all fitness levels. Based on my experience as a professional trainer and my own pain experiences after two slipped discs, I have developed the BioTune method. In addition to relieving physical pain, the method is also suitable for sharpening the physical experience dimension of our everyday life as such. In the workshop, central moments of the BioTune method were practised and the role of bodily knowledge in the experience of freedom was reflected upon.

Jerry Elliott was born in 1976 in Oke Ora, in the south of Nigeria, and has lived in Cologne since 1995 after a long period of migration. As a professional boxer for the Sauerland Boxing Stable, he fought over 40 professional fights and won the IBF and WBC International titles, among others. Since ending his active career, Elliott has worked as a trainer and is also a singer and songwriter. His own studios are visited by other schools and institutions. As part of his work for the Salus Clinic, he developed his own training method with BioTune.

The workshop results were shown in a "Conceptual Cooking" event by Caique Tizzi and a presentation of the "BioTune Method" by Jerry Elliott.

The theme of the Fall Term 2018 workshops is "Islands of Freedom".
As we know from Robinson Crusoe, in order to survive on an island, you need two kinds of skills: One is the talent of adaptation and the other is the ability to take on the world in a playful way. Apart from the economic constraints of rationalised mastery of nature, there is always a surplus of freedom. That is why islands of necessity can only be transformed into islands of freedom if we succeed in grasping this playful and uplifting moment. In order to train the grasping of this uplifting-ambivalent simultaneity of appropriation and adaptation by means of different practices of action and to sharpen additional sensory sensitivities, the five lecturers from different artistic disciplines will design a joint, coordinated 3-day workshop. Each participant will go through all the areas of activity supervised by the lecturers before the jointly collected experiences are expressed in a performative act.

Of course, islands have to be explored, food collected and food prepared. This in turn requires the construction of a cooking area and a dining area in the open air. The need for music and rhythm is met with body percussion, and in order to be able to better endure the stresses and strains of the island stay, the daily yoga practice offers physical exercise on the one hand and inner reflection on the other.


Workshops & Lecturers


Yoga Workshop
(Benita & Immanuel Grosser)

Benita and Immanuel Grosser have been developing international exhibitions and artyoga projects since 1989. In addition to teaching at various universities, state theatres and museums, they offer coaching courses at the Hamburg Federal Performance Centre and Olympic Training Centre.

In Hamburg they run Y8, a space for art and yoga practice. Behind it is a transdisciplinary collective of artists, designers, architects and yoga teachers. The unifying element of the Y8 collective is the shared yoga practice. Y8 was founded in 2000 with the intention of placing contemporary art and yoga in a productive relationship of tension. In the Y8 art space, yoga is practised and taught in international exhibition projects. For the Artyoga projects, the collective works with internationally renowned artists such as John Baldessari, Channa Hor-witz, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Karin Sander and Lawrence Weiner. At the centre of the collective's context-specific artyoga projects is the individual experience of space. The artistic confrontation with external factors gives rise to site-specific installations that enter into a dialogue with the yoga practice.

Workshop Design
(Dominik Lutz)


Dominik Lutz is an industrial designer. With his design studio, founded in 2002, he develops series products and design concepts for Aurelis, Berendsohn, Garpa, Liquid Democracy, Magazin, Mi-chow, Octopus and others. He is co-founder and designer of the Hamburg design label "pliet - New Furniture and Lights", founded in 2012, and has taught design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, Hafen City University Hamburg and Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. He has been part of the Y8 collective since 2011.

Workshop Farm-To-Table Kitchen
(Lola Rüppel)


Lola Rüppel studied communication design in Hamburg. She has been designing logos, business stationery, catalogues and websites for small and medium-sized companies for more than 20 years. Her design practice is characterised by objectivity, straightforward reduction and a holistic approach. As a trained yoga teacher, she teaches yoga at the Y8 Kunstraum in Hamburg and has been developing farm-to-table cooking courses specialising in the use of regional and seasonal ingredients for two years. In 2017, she founded the Hamburg-based catering company "Götterspeisen", which specialises in vegetarian dishes.

Workshop Body Percussion
(Detlef von Boetticher)

Detlef von Boettich lives as a musician, teacher and producer in Hamburg. After studying music at the Hamburg Conservatory, study visits took him to Africa, Cuba and Brazil. Boetticher has taught at the Institut für Lehrerfortbildung Hamburg and the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, among others. As a live and studio musician, he has worked with artists such as Jan Delay, Nena, Sam Ragga Band, Samy De Luxe and Eberhard Schöner. In 1997 he founded the percussion band "Fogo do Samba", which developed into the largest school for Brazilian percussion in Germany. In 2007 he founded the Soundhafen, a 450 m "music floor" in the heart of Hamburg with a recording studio, practice and teaching rooms, where he has since mainly produced and taught. As artistic director and organiser, he also organises the international festivals "Body Rhythm Festival Hamburg" and the "Fair Beats Festival".

The theme of the Spring Term 2018 workshops is "Crises of Reality".
It is said that we live in times when facts no longer carry much weight. In political decisions, at least, they seem to play an increasingly minor role. Does this mean that the concept of reality is also losing its meaning? At the very least, it seems to have fallen into a serious crisis. But what do categories like true, real, fictional or fantastic mean? The arts are considered to be media that make our perception observable and sound out the human relationship to reality, thereby testing what is perceived for its content. They therefore seem particularly suited to making crises of reality observable, perceptible and describable. The workshops in the Spring Term 2018 want to stimulate the illumination of the sense of reality and possibility. The aim is to question the extent to which aesthetic means enable a new, more intensive form of experiencing reality.

Workshop Yoga and Design

Distance and State (Immanuel Grosser & Dominik Lutz)

In the workshop, we will build body-related spacers and
micro-architectures that intervene in the university environment of the
ZU and dissect the space into fragmented realities.
New spatial realities emerge that enter into dialogue with each other.
In a similar way, the body postures of yoga intervene in the individual
state of the practitioner. As each practitioner engages with the abstract structure of the asana, they oscillate. The newly
created distance changes the perception of oneself and the physical
relationship to spatial reality.

Drawing and Writing Workshop

Drifting realities and hybrid drawings (Sandra Boeschenstein)

In a medially heterogeneous constitution of reality, discontinuity and shifts are part of the structure of our experience. What potential can lie in such shifts if their modes of action are recognised and cultivated? We start from the representational drawing, which convinces through its medial simplicity. In a sequence of images, we confront the drawing with the photograph and vice versa: on the one hand, we introduce photographic elements into the drawing. On the other hand, we then expose the drawings in real space, stage their encounter with objects or places and record this in photographic composition. Finally, we intervene in this photographic staging again by drawing. - A hybrid with media layering and drifting reality. In the abundance of possibilities, we search specifically for the points of simple but striking interlocking of medium and message and for the "dramatic points" in the sequence. Accompanying art considerations sharpen the eye for the potential of interrogating reality through media intersection.


Monologue-Dialogue-Story (Monica Cantieni)


"Crises of Reality - News from the Land of Forgetting".

Literature is created through hopelessness and its condensation; through the fact that the author cannot escape his/her material and its characters and their perspectives that embody it. Through the multidimensionality of different perspectives, a space emerges: the story. The workshop offers you the opportunity to experience being part of an interactive story, inescapably being someone else and telling it from that perspective. Under the title "Crises of Reality - News from the Land of Forgetting" you will write, re-stage and perform a mini-drama as a radio play based on a real murder that its murderer forgets within a few hours.

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