MODE05

I just observed the striking discrepancy between the intensity of the discussions inside our think-tank and its accessibility for the outside world. The blog and the wiki turned out to be no appropriate tools to provide an insight into the processes happening here. So we're just figuring out a way to edit and transmit the enormous amount of material produced in here. Please be patient. It's not about ignorance or exclusivity, rather a question of how to get hold of a very intense process in a productive bubble.

I don’t consider myself a dancer. I didn’t go through a dance education, although sometimes my name is mentioned in programs in the category dance or even choreography. I rather consider myself a writer, although, during 7 years at university, I hardly got any proper instructions how to write. Nevertheless, I somehow learned to write by writing. The same with critical thinking. Nobody ever taught me how to do it, I simply learned it by following and rethinking others people’s thoughts. My most critical warm-up ever (by the non-dancer Jan Kopp) started with the words: „Strzn biideda liq bulglzst flüp da blgnouggntr.“

No output without input, so here are the basics on blogging:
and the intro of a long text (attached) on blogging and education for all of us who went through a traditional education and therefore try to figure out other concepts of teaching and learning in mode05

I just want to throw in a reference that I came across not too long ago. It’s a publication titled Artistic Research (Annette W. Balkema & Henk Slager (Eds.), Amsterdam & New York 2004, Lier en Boog Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory Vol. 18). Somehow it was hard to get it in Germany.