Creativity & Performance

Three aspects are of particular importance in this context:

Aesthetic experience and emotional knowledge: Body techniques (such as yoga, dance or theatre) raise awareness of the order of spaces, social environments, and atmospheres.

Action-based knowledge: When drawing, writing or within the field of music, we develop ways of thinking that arise from action. They do not so much follow a strict causality as rather a logic of the material or specific rhythms of movements.

Imagination and creativity techniques: While filming, drawing, designing, composing and experimenting with materials, we generate images, narratives and symbols and thereby create something surprising and unforeseen. Associations and assertions are picked up, traced and playfully transformed.

For the course ‘Creativity & Performance' students are to choose two artistic disciplines, which correspond to their interests and affinities. Accompanied by experienced artists, their perception is sharpened as they get to explore their environment in an experimental manner. Signs and sign systems, images and narrations, even their own bodies, become probes of an engagement with reality which is not recognizable as representation but as construction and criticism. With the format ‘Creativity & Performance’, Zeppelin University has developed a study concept which is unique in Germany and reflects latest developments in the understanding of research and science.

The Laboratory for Implicit and Artistic Knowledge (LIKWI) is a research unit at Zeppelin University that analyses the results of the Creativity & Performance teaching format. Together with a network of partners from other universities, its purpose is to draw out and investigate the epistemological, aesthetic and pedagogical insights gained from this format. LIKWI is part of the Center for Cultural Production and some of the workshops are also held in cooperation with Zeppelin University's artsprogram.