Question Higher Orders,
Lecture and workshop on the exhibition Sigmar Polke: Music from an Unknown Source, Romanian-German Cultural Center Brasov in cooperation with the IFA - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, December 2018

The exhibition opened with a lecture on Polke's biography and working methods.

In a subsequent workshop with pupils and adults, we approached the series Music from an Unknown Source (1996) by Sigmar Polke in jointly made-up stories. These were set to music and recorded in several voices. The focus was on the development and exchange of personal readings of this medially and visually versatile series.

The teamwork, the mutual listening, the speaking in front of an audience and the temporary addition to the hanging were perceived as extraordinary, especially by the participating young people.

Audiovisual Displacement of Sculptures,
Workshop with Katja Böhme as part of the art education weekend for the Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, July 2017

This workshop was about approaching some works of the Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 in a filmmaking way.

Katja Böhme and Nanna Lüth had framed the map of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 with envelopes containing the official information about each work. Numerous works were located within walking distance; however, more remote works in the vicinity of Münster were also included in the map.

Students, art teachers and university lecturers participated in the workshop. We started with a short introduction about our own impressions, the map and the available video equipment. We were interested in the (in)accessibility of the works associated with the expansive exhibition format. The participants were invited to choose one work and to encounter this work with a video camera. It was agreed that we would meet one hour later at the Aegidiimarkt in order to project the resulting films there into the urban space with the help of a portable beamer. Thus, at this meeting point, a medially supported exchange about what had been experienced and recorded took place.

The Mural. Learning German in the exhibition Claudia Kapp: YouYou. Media Art Education at the Edith Russ House for Media Art Oldenburg, together with Doris Mosbach, Jacobs University Bremen, and Jan Blum, January 2012

Learning a new language is facilitated when practiced in contexts experienced as meaningful. With this in mind, a visit by international students from Jacobs University Bremen as part of a week of immersive language learning was framed by a shared coffee and a walk through Oldenburg's city center. Claudia Kapp's exhibition YouYou was guided by worksheets that linked the viewing of the media art productions with language learning steps. The combination was evaluated by the participants as very positive and supportive.

The Wild Western. Performance and video project for children 8 and older and youth. Edith Russ House for Media Art in cooperation with the Hermannshof Osterscheps and the Institute for Music, University of Oldenburg, together with Stefanie Oberhoff and Ludwig Szebel, September 2011

At the Hermannshof in Osterscheps/Edewecht the artists Stefanie Oberhoff and Nanna Lüth realized the shooting of a "wild western" . "Wild" in this case meant that we wanted to take the Western genre apart and create extraordinary situations and images. With the help of beards, wigs, plastic weapons and matching clothes, the participants, aged 8 - 18 years, could slip into the roles of cowgirls and cowboys. Even the horses and dogs present were moved to perform in front of a large blue screen.

The work was done with blue screen technology, which makes it easier to fade in other backgrounds during editing and thus transport the filmed action to another time.

In a second step, the video material was post-edited by students of the Carl-von- Ossietzky University under the guidance of video editor Ludwig Szebel. The freshly cut and dubbed wild western was presented and celebrated one week after the last day of shooting in the presence of many children, young people and adults involved.

Out-of-tune hero*ines. Multimedia project and action for Prevention Day. Edith Russ House for Media Art in cooperation with the Institute for Material Culture-Textile - Media, University of Oldenburg and the Comenius School Oldenburg, March - June 2011

The linking of popular heroes with masculinity, strength and agency made them the starting point of this artistic-educational project. In the media project "Out of tune heroines" the untouchability of such heroic, in some cases also violent figures should be questioned by a 7th grade of the Comeniusschule Oldenburg, in a longer crossmedia process.

First, the students designed hero*ine profiles and each thought of a heroine pose in which they wanted to be photographed. Stereotypical and surprising sentences were put into the mouths of these heroines by means of speech bubbles. After that, the students started to dub existing heroine characters in films. The students viewed various film clips without soundtracks and selected their favorite ones. This resulted in small groups that wrote new dialogues corresponding to the lip movements, in which they brought out the vulnerable, silly or quarrelsome side of film heroines.

The results of these idiosyncratic dubbings were presented at the 16th German (Violence) Prevention Day at the train station next to the police information booths. Guests of the prevention day, police officers and travelers could watch the project results of the class and spontaneously lend their own voice to heroines at two laptop stations.

Good memories, bad memories– in Neukölln.
Video and performance project with Barbara Loreck and class 5a of the Grundschule am Richardplatz in the context of urban memories, Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin 2010

This project with pupils of the Richard elementary school in Neukölln established a connection between the exhibition urban memories in the "Altes Museum Neukölln" (curator: Maria Linares) and the Ganghofer Straße neighborhood. The basic idea was not to address a specific target group and yet to record cultural and social similarities and differences with the help of an overarching question.

After two introductory meetings, the students approached about 100 passers-by in the Richardpassage, asked them about their good and bad memories, and entered the location of each memory on maps of various ranges. From the collected memories, those that could be translated into scenes were selected in a follow-up meeting. The subsequent staging for the video camera offered the pupils the opportunity to deal with the experiences of adults unknown to them and to rework them into a video film according to their own ideas.

The insights into the memories collected on site gave them - as later for the visitors of the exhibition - the chance to learn more about the Neukölln neighborhood and its inhabitants. n.

Nach zwei einführenden Treffen sprachen die Schüler_innen in der Richardpassage etwa 100 Passant_innen an, fragten diese nach ihren guten und schlechten Erinnerungen und trugen jeweils den Ort der Erinnerung in Karten verschiedener Reichweite ein. Aus den gesammelten Erinnerungen wurden in einem Folgetreffen solche ausgewählt, die sich in Szenen übersetzen ließen. Die anschließende Inszenierung für die Videokamera bot den Schüler_innen die Möglichkeit, sich mit den Erlebnissen von ihnen unbekannten Erwachsenen zu beschäftigen und diese nach ihren eigenen Vorstellungen zu einem Videofilm umzuarbeiten.

Die Einblicke in die vor Ort gesammelten Erinnerungen ergaben für sie – wie später für die Besucher_innen der Ausstellung – die Chance, etwas mehr über den Neuköllner Kiez und seine Bewohner_innen zu erfahren.