Dynamic Meditation is a one-hour active meditation in which your physical activity plays a central role. The meditative posture is achieved in the course of a dynamic, physically active meditation session. The meditation take place in the room of VON ERLENBACH KUNSTSCHULE

The meditation is structured in five phases. The active phases give you the opportunity to free yourself from your inner ballast, your negative emotions, your stress, your conflict situations, etc. and it leads you on the path to start the day more unburdened and free. Meditation frees you from your patterns, which are held in your body in the form of inner tension. This creates a lot of space for silent observation during the passive phase. The meditation is always accompanied by the same music.

A detailed description and the dates of the meditation can be found here.

In the coming year, we want to resume our activities in the form of workshops and seminars. Our focus on artistically oriented workshops and seminars will expand. From January 2023, we will offer regularly scheduled meditation workshops. Initially, we will start with Dynamic Meditation according to Osho, which begins at 7 am in the morning. The description of the meditation, dates and registration can be found here.
If possible, we will hold the seminar “The Stranger and I” in 2023.

In the field of tension between ‘home’ and ‘foreign’ people have always been looking for new inspirations for social life and their work, because perception opens up through the new impressions of a foreign environment and new ideas and imaginations arise far away from everyday life.

Often the foreign is determined by travelling to other, foreign countries, but even the big city offers a variety of strange situations that we can encounter as soon as we leave our familiar surroundings or actively engage with people who bring something ‘foreign’ to us. In the workshop we concentrate on developing artistic ideas that use the desire for the foreign environment, /the stranger as a source of inspiration.

The aim is to fundamentally deal with the theme of the “foreign” and “other” that one can encounter everywhere and to enter into a productive dialogue. To rub against the foreign, to mirror oneself, to separate or open oneself.
How does the foreign affect me? What does it trigger in me and what previous experiences can I build on? Does it make me curious or does it scare me? Do I delimit myself or do I open myself?

“Horizons” is an interactive workshop aimed at participants with and without disabilities, who use their creativity to learn how to explore and shift their own and their neighbours’ boundaries and thus broaden their horizons. The target group are young people up to 26 years of age who wanted to open themselves to new experiences and at the same time turn their attention inwards to discover unknown inner landscapes and thus make their life and work with others more imaginative.

The image is still widespread in society: “People with disabilities are a burden to society. We have to understand that for a healthy community, people with disabilities are also important. They broaden our horizons and teach us things that we quickly forget in the hectic of everyday life.

We have to learn from each other. People with disabilities can also help other people, be a friend to so-called non-disabled people. How can this look like? What makes friendship? What can a person without a disability learn from a friend with disabilities? What is the added value?

A performance will explore these questions. Roland Walter himself is spastically paralyzed and works as a performer and inclusion ambassador. He has experience of how to be a friend to non-disabled people. Together with a dancer, Walter would like to develop and perform a performance “hand in hand”. In doing so, different facets of friendship should be shown. In the second part Roland Walter (Germany) and Yanel Barbeito (Cuba) offer a conversation. The participants will exchange their experiences. It should be conveyed that people with disabilities are an enrichment. Barbeito is also spastic paralyzed. Barbeito and Walter evaluate the experiences of the participants.

Inclusion. The Küra will provide an opportunity for exchange between disabled and non-disabled people – both among artists and between artists and the public or within the public.

In this way we want to break down fears of contact and build community. The Küra team is convinced that creativity in community and exchange touches people and draws wide circles of awareness. 3 to 4 disabled or non-disabled artists* are invited to present their performances of up to 20 minutes in a professional atmosphere.

The evening, which will be moderated, will be translated live by a sign language interpreter into an appropriate medium for people with hearing disabilities and visually impaired people.

Where will the event take place?
Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte 10179 Berlin, 05.05.2019

Appointment
05.05.2019
Number of persons Number of persons: 80

The art aspects kunstverein was founded by members of the VON ERLENBACH KUNSTSCHULE. In the art school young people prepare themselves for the admission for an artistic study. In 15 years, more than 500 people have prepared a portfolio, been admitted to study and have studied. Many of them have already completed their studies. And many of the graduates are wondering what will happen after their studies.

In our workshops “…and then”, we look upon questions of what an artistic career could look like, what opportunities there are on the job market with an artistic education. We investigate in discussions and practical exercises and with guests (artists, curators, galerists)

I am suitable for a purely artistic career
which requirements should be met
where can I get support
which organisations/memberships are important
how to apply for scholarships
there are other ways aside from common career steps
what independence means to me
Bread job and artistic work
and much more
Dates

2.-4.8.2019, Fr. 6-9pm, Introduction, Sat and Sun 10am-7pm
6.-8.9.2019, Fr. 6-9pm, Introduction, Sat and Sun 10am-7pm
Location
art aspects, Nostitzstrasse 40, 10961 Berlin, Germany
Attendance
only after registration (please send an email to: info@art-aspects.de
Costs
250 EUR per weekend, 400 EUR for both weekends

Project description_Choreografien des Öffentlichen / Coreografías de lo urbano

Choreographien des Öffentlichen/Coreografías de lo urbano will be produced by the temporary ensemble Plasticity and in cooperation with the Humboldt association(Goethe Institute Ecuador), MAE(Archive Museum for Architecture Ecuador (Quito) and FeldFünf (Berlin) and will take place in Quito, Ecuador (March and April 2019) and Berlin, Germany (August and September 2019)
Choreographien des Öffentlichen/Coreografías de lo urbano is a transcultural and interdisciplinary project that studies and investigates the multi-layered interactions that exist between public spaces and individuals. By working on three different performance duos that are going to be presented as performative`space tours ́:`Diverse Bodies, diverse Buildings ́, `Common Places, Meeting Grounds ́and `Bodies, Cities and Archives ́, the main objectives of this project are to critically reflect on and open up questions related to accessibility, historicity, post-colonialism and gentrification. Through examining the porousness and plasticity of/between bodies and public spaces, this project ultimately aims for an aware and open use of public spaces that facilitates participation and exchange through artistic productions. A key component of this project is to work with a mixed-abled and transnational ensemble that interweaves dance, theatre, and anthropology in order to voice the various layers, perspectives and complexities of the thematic. The team is constituted by three core members: Tamiana Naranjo, Lilly Pöhlmann and Josefin Pöhlmann. Two invited guests Roland Walter and Juan Lautaro Veneziale and another 4 local artists that join one phase only. The questions of how to consciously choreograph experiences in public spaces and in which ways this spaces (defined shapes) influence and/or configuarte bodies, started a dialogue between the involved artists and led them to find adequate partners in Quito and Berlin that are equally interested to start a long term research on this topic. An international cooperation is crucial for this production, as working with a mixed abled and transnational ensemble will open spaces where the `inner ́ and `outer ́ are questioned and binary oppositions are not taken for granted: new perspectives will emerge. This artistic project is a sustainable way of questioning the use and accessibility of public spaces and will open new ways of perceiving the so called `nature of places ́. Its high artistic and social value becomes evident through working with diverse bodies, site-specific venues, new cooperation’s and relevant topics that affect bodies on every day basis. Complementing the production of Choregraphien des Öffentlichen/Coreografías de lo urbano, four workshops will be offered by the core artistic team in Quito and Berlin respectively. These workshops are free of charge and open for everybody. Besides enriching the artistic process this format of sharing knowledge mainly aims for a direct dialogue and exchange with local residents and artists. This research is based on the `tour guide ́: a product and experience that is purchased and consumed. This choreographed experience is mostly designed for foreigners that `sells ́ a unique experience of the architectonic masterpieces, the `true ́ heart(s) of the city and its history, which indeed defines the cities particularities. Besides an immense variation on price and group size the services are also vast: mainstream-, alternative-, `not-normative ́-, art-, underground-, migration-and colonial history tours -`all’ topics are covered. The one thing in common: the promise of an eventful and personal experience in the foreign city. This project aims to uncover this choreography and critically discuss the form of interaction between bodies and spaces. Through working with a new framing this project aspires to destabilize the everyday choreographies, show real or/and imagined boundaries, question normative ways of using public spaces and reveal `myths ́ of the day to day. The three performative `space tours’are going to be created in close relationship with following neighbourhoods: San Marcos (MAE), Cruz Tobar and Iñaquito (Humboldt Association) and southern Friedrichstadt (Feldfünf). On one hand we will work with the subjective space experience and practices of each artist and on the other hand with the dramaturgy of the tour guide itself. Each performative `space tour’ will be lead by a different artist duo. Performances__Diverse Bodies, Diverse Buildings: Are there imagined or real boundaries in public spaces that we cannot or will not pass? Where do we find porousness, accessibility and openness? Is the idea of a complete accessible city an utopic one? Centre of research_Humboldt association (Quito), feldfünf (Berlin) Mediums_ sound, dance and architecture_Common Places, Meeting Grounds: Which places invite us to stay? How do these spaces voice the logic of consumerism, materialism or post materialism? Do places of leisure and gathering have an agency? Is the shopping mall the contemporary church? Centre of research_ Humboldt association (Quito), feldfünf (Berlin). Mediums_ text, dance_Bodies, Cities and Archives: How does the history of a places affect the way we move in them? How does the colonial architecture in Quito and the effects of gentrification in Berlin define the way we move and act? In which aspect do this topics merge?Which stories are told/not told about this streets and squares? Which stories do we not want to listen to? Centre of research_ MAE (Quito), feldfünf (Berlin). Mediums_ architecture, theatre, dance Diverse Bodies, Diverse Buildings and Common Places, Meeting Grounds will be presented at the Humboldt association and feldfünf and Bodies, Cities and Archives will be presented at the MAE and feldfünf. Furthermore, the MAE is interested in exposing a final documentation of the artistic process of the whole production at the end of each phase (Quito and Berlin).

Promotion by Aktion Mensch. Performance on May 12th

Roland Walter, inclusion ambassador, performer, and himself a person with spastic tetraplegia with athetoses, meets Barbara Duss, clown and theater pedagogue in 2017. Barbara has been active as a theater pedagogue for disabled persons and is involved in “clowns without borders” on the platform of the Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin.
They are introduced to each other by a friend.  Soon after the introducting person has left, Roland Walter drives at high speed to the other side of the platform and a woman of the age of Barbara Duss dives after Roland. Ms. Duss follows the situation leisurely and says, finally arrived with her knee osteoarthritis at the other end of the platform: “It is not fitting for a gentleman, leaving two ladies on the platform and just driving away”. The answer of Roland Walter with scrutinizing look the two rather chubby women from bottom to top and a mischievous laugh: “I just wanted to train you”.
After this curious intruduction we decided to work together in a Clows  piece.

Schedule: May 5 actions in the city to the action day
Premiere May 12th

In the last three years, things have changed a lot at art aspects and so the prospects for 2018 and the next years are under these new aspects: The projects on the Canary Island Lanzarote have been completed. Changing the EU’s programs and aligning the National Agencies has changed the requirement profiles. Artistic work is  not really supported by the National Agency in Bonn as an eligible further education, which is why the last applications ran into the void.Therefore these programs are no longer our priority. Therefore, we focus on projects and workshops in Berlin and Tarifa in southern Spain, where we have found new partners in the collaboration who want to combine with us elements of meditation and artistic work. More about this when the individual projects are fixed.

With Miss Stanhope and her project Lobilat, we are committed to her mission to make refugee children in Berlin and in the refugee camps a pleasure. Miss Stanhope travels to Lebanon with Lobilat and hundreds of fluffies several times a year, hosting artistic workshops there as well as in Berlin. She does an amazing, wonderful work and we are proud to support her on her way. You will learn more from her here: www.lobilat.com

With Roland Walter, we have had a project designer for some time now, who is heavily involved in the performance of the “Aktion Mensch” program in the field of performance with the emphasis on cooperation with disabled people. Roland is a person with spastic tetraplegia with athetosis, so severely handicapped. With his project MAMA 2012, Roland discovered his body as a means of expression and since then traveles around the world as a performer and inclusion ambassador. More from him at: www.roland-walter.de

Lobilat is a project of our art aspects member Dinah, also known as Miss Stanhope.

In addition to visits of refugees in Lebanon, where more than 1 million Syrian refugees are currently living in camps,different kind of workshops are held in Berlin with refugees. Since the project is very extensive, the activities around Lobilat are shown on an extra website. Take a look and support this unique commitment from Miss Stanhope. Lobilat

Biennale Venedig

After visiting New York with many museums and galleries as well as visiting the documenta 14 a month later, the last trip of this year is the visit of the Venice Biennale. From 31 September to 3 October, we will be concentrating on the Jardini and various places in the city this year. We very much hope that the Biennale will not be as disappointing as the documenta.
Also on this journey various actors of art aspects will get together and every interested person is welcome to join us. We meet on 1st October at 10 at the entrance of the Jardini.

documenta 14

This year, we will visit the documenta as we did five years ago. Even if the reviews were less good, we would like to have a picture of the work on site. The date is August 19th to 21st. Who would like to join us? We meet in front of the Friedericianum at 10 o’clock.

12. – 15.07.2017, AusSicht-Festival, Monsuntheater, Friedensallee 20, 22765 Hamburg
Within the framework of the AusSicht-Festival, the art aspects- members Lisa Gaden and Roland Walter will  as an inclusion ambassador.
participate in a performance. It is the second funded project of ACTION MAN

The aim is to bring together within four days professional dancers as well as mixed-abled danceers and theater companies  and to develop a performative message together with the audience. The prerequisite here is the equitable artistic co-operation, which is determined by the different, individual abilities and possibilities of its participants.

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

In June, a group of art aspects members traveled to New York to explore the possibilities of an exhibition with local artists and to work towards a collaboration that fits within the context of the art aspects guidelines.
Together with the musician Susanne D, we planned a first project for 2018, in which we will use WORD TAPIR DAY with small drawings and paintings. YIP!