Aesthetic Transformation Processes: Inspiration across Disciplinary Boundaries

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A focus lies on idea-generating and cross-disciplinary processes and combines it with fieldtrips within Berlin. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively work together with various disciplinary backgrounds?

Any good idea does not stop at disciplinary boundaries. It passes through the minds of the many and eventually gets entangled by one’s individual imagination.

This workshop combines fieldtrips within Berlin with a cross-disciplinary creative practice. A focus lies on idea-generating processes. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively work together with various disciplinary backgrounds? The course is aimed at artists of all disciplines, designers, architects, and people working in the creative sector who would like to experiment in an interdisciplinary environment and who are interested in connecting to the independent Berlin art & design scene.

Distinct locations in the city of Berlin serve as a starting point for a journey of transformation of ideas. Sound or performance artists, dancers, visual or conceptual artists, writers, poets, sculptors, designers, architects, and other creative practitioners will respond to a site and develop their own theme(s). Sequential works that act upon multiple interpretative statements of the participants will follow. Individual works connect to others, and, in this way, a collective, multi-perspective artistic investigation on the chosen sites and topics will unfold. An Aesthetic Transformation process will provide participants with a bounty of ideas and concepts which can prove to be useful for their own creative practice. Studio visits with artists or designers of the Berlin independent art scene will offer the opportunity for conversations, contact and networking. Theory readings and in-class discussions will allow for a critical inquiry of contemporary art practices as well as a reflection on the participant’s own creative practice.

Schedule

Monday

10 am Introduction on the topic