Art and participatory practice. Empowerment in Culture
Who makes culture and art for whom and how? Who tells which stories about our societies and about ourselves? We would like to develop an artistic project together that looks at and narrates our society from multiple perspectives. To achieve this, we will work with methods of storytelling, self/auto-ethnography and creative writing, among other approaches. In the course of the seminar, we will visit two or three cultural spaces (exhibition or initiatives) in the region to learn about their practices of participation and empowerment. A final presentation is planned, and the group will be able to determine the form itself.
In the context of the current political, ecological and social crisis, this seminar is dedicated to exploring practices for creating community and commonality. The aim is to initiate a guided creative process that activates dialogue and bridges between people and contributes to the creation of community.
Patrick Ritter, M.A.
Patrick Ritter (M.A.), cultural worker from Bochum, studied Empirical Cultural Studies, Sociology and English Literature at the University of Tübingen. In 2015, he came to the Ruhr region for a traineeship in project management at Urbane Künste Ruhr and has since worked primarily in participatory art and cultural projects as a curator, workshop leader, and author. In his cultural professional life he worked with Interkultur Ruhr (a program of Regionalverband Ruhr), the former Zukunftskademie NRW Bochum, the Frankfurt Communications Museum, the Endstation.Kino in Bochum, IFAK e.V. (MSO in Bochum), the BIH Looks Around Film Festival in Bottrop, Stiftung Bildung (Berlin) and others.
Patrick Ritter (M.A.), Kulturschaffender aus Bochum, studierte Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Soziologie und englische Literatur an der Uni Tübingen. 2015 kam er für ein Volontariat im Projektmanagement bei Urbane Künste Ruhr ins Ruhrgebiet und arbeitet seither meist in partizipativen Kunst- und Kulturprojekten als Kurator, Workshopleiter und Autor. Einige seiner Stationen: Interkultur Ruhr (Regionalverband Ruhr), ehem. Zukunftskademie NRW Bochum, Kommunikationsmuseum Frankfurt, das Endstation.Kino in Bochum, IFAK e.V. (MSO in Bochum), das BIH Looks Around Film Festival in Bottrop, Stiftung Bildung (Berlin) und andere.
Ziele & Kompetenzen
Who makes culture or art for whom and how? Who tells which stories about our societies and about ourselves?
Participation, empowerment, migration, postcolonial/power critical discourses and intersectional perspectives have been strongly in demand in the production of art and culture in recent years. Why is this the case? Which developments are behind these concepts? How is this connected to democracy? And how can we become active in these fields ourselves?
In this seminar-workshop, the first step is to form an educational community and to reflect on the potential and limits of the above-mentioned concepts by discussing reading material.
In a second step, we will explore the meaning of ‘empowerment’ on both an individual and collective level in order to design strategies for the development of a final project.
Competencies: Cultural education, creative practise, critical reading
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