PUBLICATIONS
The Flying Art Journal
With these three issues of the "Flying Art Journal," I document my collaboration with the students and teachers at the Limesschule Idstein. There, as part of a residency program funded by the Crespo Foundation, I spent a year as a "flying artist ," bringing cultural education to rural areas. The journals were created in collaboration with designer Leonie Nieporte and students Lena, Lilli, Luisa, and Mia from the newspaper club formed specifically for this purpose. They constitute an independent artistic format that can, in turn, be integrated into classroom teaching. Designed as a hybrid, the QR codes provide access to both playful suggestions for creative activities and the artwork created together with the students. Each journal features a guest author who reflects on the respective overarching theme (dance and drawing, democratic education, and the school of the future), and an interviewee who engages in a dialogue with the students.
In issue #1 , "Dance Becomes Drawing, Drawing Becomes Dance," the interviewees are Prof. Christiane Riedel, board member, and Friederike Schönhuth, department head at the Crespo Foundation. Guest author Dr. Katarina Kleinschmidt, dance scholar and dancer, reflects on the forms of knowledge production generated in her exploration of dance and drawing, and to what extent this constitutes artistic research.
In issue #2 , "On Dancing, Flying, Fluttering, and Listening to Each Other," Markus Kauer, Head of the Department for Cultural Education at the Hessian Ministry of Culture, Education, and Opportunities, engages in a dialogue with the students and explains the development process of the flying artist's studio, from idea to realization. Guest author Stine Hollmann (art historian) analyzes my paper airplane project at the school and uses it as an example to illustrate how artistic interventions like this can foster democratic education.
Issue #3, titled "The School I Dream Of," focuses on the future. The interviewee is Carolina Romahn, responsible for cultural education at the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture. The guest author is philosopher Marc Ulrich, who examines the challenges associated with climate change and explores the potential of aesthetic educational processes in this context. The starting point for his analysis is my tree-planting performance at the school.
Exhibition catalogue
During my year-long residency at the Meinersen Artists' House, I involved people from the local community and presented my exhibition "Home as Fragment. Home in the Plural." (2019) in the entire Artists' House and the surrounding streets. The aim of the call for proposals was to explore the concept of home locally using artistic means and to involve as many people from the surrounding area as possible. Interviews and conversations with residents, as well as their participation through the provision of personal stories and objects, formed the basis of an attempt to approach the concept of home in all its facets and contradictions. At the same time, it became clear to me that it was impossible to reach "everyone" within a year. From the outset, I was aware that the conversations would revolve around the unspoken and the unspoken. I also struggled with the impossibility of reaching "everyone" in that time. Enduring this tension between the unnamed and the unrepresented—making visible the gaps created by those who either have no "homeland" or were not given a voice in the project—was something I explored both in my dance solo " Remembering and Forgetting " and in a film installation that I integrated into the exhibition space. There, I conducted interviews with absent individuals, thus making the gaps themselves the subject.