Leibnitz’ concept that pleasure and insight are irrevocably linked provides the fundamental idea of this creative workshops. Young persons between 10 and 17 are given the rare opportunity to exchange ideas with international renowned artists and receive creative impulses through their experiences. Participants and workshop supervisors work together for a week before presenting the results of the workshop on Friday in the Pavilion of the Senses.
The following participants hold six individual workshops utilising their own individual artistic media:
AUFTRAG : LOREY, the production duo Stefanie Lorey, Hamburg, and Björn Auftrag, Gießen;
NAOMI BRAGIN, dancer and choreographer from Berkeley, USA;
RONALD CLARK, director of the Herrenhausen Gardens and students from the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape at the Leibniz University of Hanover;
STEPHAN EBERHARD, scientific assistant at the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University of Berlin;
FREI-TAGSKÜCHE, cooking and art from Frankfurt am Main;
THOMAS GOERGE, artist and stage and costume designer, Hallbergmoos;
AMEER LOGGINS, musician and producer, doctoral student in African diaspora studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA;
SINA NITZSCHE, academic assistant at the Institute for English and American Studies at the TU Dortmund and
SIMON SCHWARTZ, illustrator and comic-strip artist from Hamburg.
CURATOR Leonore Leonardy
DURATION ca. 90 minutes
Partners: Herrenhausen Gardens, IGS Vahrenheide/Sahlkamp (comprehensive school), Volkswagen Foundation, Wilhelm Busch German Museum for Caricature and Drawings
With support from the Region of Hanover