SS 2022 / Exchange program with the performance class, Art School in the University Kassel of Mounira Al Solh

Inspired a.o. by artist and writer Etel Adnan, but also by post-colonial thinkers such as Glissant, Spivak, and Fanon, we would like to open up our work and connect our classes, with a shared interest in performative formats. For her weavings, writings, and poetry the artist Etel Adnan referred to her own past as migrant, inter-weaving her different identities, using tangible and non-tangible materials that gave her inspiration: the sun and the mountains around her, her everyday life, and her involvement with the planet, wars and daily news, whist also being able to work with abstraction.

The use of textiles as common source material for all participants will function as an open communal starting point. Working with ‚Textile’ could include working with old or new clothes, with pieces of cloth or textiles used or new, working with wool or cotton, using knitting, even recycling plastic, old tapes,  etc., anything that one can think of in relation to textiles, even on a metaphorical level. At first, in the beginning of June Kassel students could bring their own material to Berlin to play with. After that, on June 20th until around June 25th Berlin students will visit Kassel, the outcomes will be used in performative ways in the city of Kassel including the visit of Documenta15.

Workshops by performance artist and choreographer Ania Nowak