Practice Symposium: Learning from Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Through her artistic work with children in traumatic situations, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis is still an inspiration for art therapy, art education and art pedagogy today. The practice symposium invites art educators and therapists, art mediators and students, pupils and teachers in relation to history and art lessons to get to know, try out and jointly reflect on artistic-creative practices and forms of mediation and to understand their historical context.
Especially in the current situation of social crisis, fear and danger, “learning from Friedl” means creating safe spaces for dealing with trauma together and exploring how art-knowledge and art-action can support this. But what does it take to be able to deal with experiences of crisis and grief together? How can the museum become a place for learning from vulnerability?
The practice symposium took place in the context of the exhibition Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (28.01. to 29.05.22).
Programme and concept: Karin Schneider, Head of Art Education Museums of the City of Linz
Timetable
Tue 10.5.
03:00 pm Welcome
03:15 – 06:00 pm Workshop “IG-Verlust” with the artist duo hoelb/hoeb
IG-Verlust is an artistic experimental set-up by the artist duo hoelb/hoeb. Via VR stations, the workshop participants enter virtual room atmospheres and environments, meet digital doubles of everyday experts from the fields of art, philosophy, hospice, coma vigil and care, and explore new social rituals of social encounter, cohesion, empathy, dealing with grief, solidarity and inclusion.
In cooperation with IG-Verlust im brut
Wed 11.5.
07:30 – 08:00 am Morning medi(t)ation online
Via a zoom link, which will be sent to you after registration, we meet in the morning for a guided medi(t)ation. This creates a bridge between the here and there, the past and the future.
03:00 – 06:00 pm “Learning from Vulnerability – Creating Care Packages”.
Workshop with Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider
What makes a museum a good place for dealing with vulnerability? Together we will create “care packages” – show notes, messages, question cards – as “messages of solidarity” (Bini Adamczak) to future visitors and participants we do not yet know.
Thu 12.5.
7.30−8.00 am Morning medi(t)ation online
Via a zoom link, which will be sent to you after registration, we meet in the morning for a guided medi(t)ation. This creates a bridge between the here and there, the past and the future.
10.00−12.00 am Methods according to Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Workshop with Elena Makarova
Elena Makarova has worked intensively with Friedl Dicker-Brandeis’ methods and has developed them further for art therapy, art education and mediation today. She will try out some of these artistic methods with us and thus enable us to learn from Friedl together.
12.00 am Lunch Reading with Elena Makarova and Christine Hengevoß
We present the book “Friedl. Biographical Novel” by Elena Makarova for the first time in its German translation by Christine Hengevoß. Just sit down with a cup of coffee and cake and listen to the narration!
01:00 – 02:45 pm Methods Lab Trying out learning together
Methods lab with the art education department of the Lentos Kunstmuseum
Trying out small methodical impulses together that open up thought processes through doing.
03:00 – 05:00 pm Workshop Meeting silently in art and through art
Workshop with Rolf Laven
How can participatory artistic methods in public space create a form of commemorative culture that involves people in remembering the traumatic past, brings them together in the present and directs them towards a common future? Together with the artist and art education professor Rolf Laven, who was involved in the action “Silently encountering in art and through art”, we will reflect on artistic ways of working with history.
06:00 pm Learning from Friedl – Reflection
Impulse lectures
With Elena Makarova, Rolf Laven, Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider
To contextualise and reflect on the workshops, research on Friedl Dicker, the influence of art educator Franz Cizek and the methodological proposal of “Learning from Vulnerability” will be presented. Book presentation “Friedl. Biographical Novel” in the context of the panel with Elena Makarova, Rolf Laven, Andrea Hubin and Karin Schneider.
Fri 13.5.
07:30 – 08:00 am Morning medi(t)ation online
Via a zoom link, which will be sent after registration, we meet in the morning for a guided medi(t)ation. This creates a bridge between the here and there, the past and the future.
10:00 – 02:00 am Methods lab Trying out learning together
Methods lab with the art education department of the Lentos Kunstmuseum
Talks, work tables, exchange, interactions
Also: Presentation of “Ida zeichnet eine Wolke nach” (Ida Draws a Cloud)
The illustrator Silke Müller from Linz tells in the picture story about her examination of the Nazi history of Hartheim Castle and the life of the artist Ida Maly, who was murdered there in 1941.
02:00 – 03:00 pm Guided tour of the curator with Brigitte Reutner-Doneus
03:00 pm Mind-Crossing
Interactive performance
Musician, composer and music therapist Tal Gur and dancer and choreographer Jasmin Avissar (both ISR) translate the story of Tal’s grandparents, who survived the Holocaust, into a collage of dance, music and poetry and relate it to the exhibition. We will be involved in the performance and thus actively engage with history.
Sat 14.5.
10:00 am – 04:00 am Mind-Crossing
Workshop and final reflection on the practice symposium
Over an extended breakfast we will reflect on learning processes from the performance and the symposium together with the artists and their methods from music and dance work or art education.
Wed 25.5.
06:00 pm Viktor Löwenfeld: Art Education and Liberation Politics
Impulse lecture and discussion with Prof. Christian Kravagna in reflection on the practice symposium.