Vortrag NOVEMBER von Martin Kohout

Vielen Dank an den Künstler Martin Kohout für seinen Vortrag November und die Arbeitsbesprechungen mit unseren Teilnehmer*innen innerhalb des Studioprogrammes am BAI | Kunstschule, Kunstinkubator, Artist in Residence und und Live Onlinekurse & -klassen in Berlin.

„Most of art education is focused on bright examples, on how to do and plan things things right. Even failed experiments are evaluated as valuable lessons to make things right next time. And that is not a surprise in a culture with the idea of growth in its centre. In this presentation and discussion, I would like to focus on the rarely spoken about detours, hiccups, or failures that has accompanied the process of making my works, but stayed in the studio. I would like to show how much more indirect making work can be, compared to how it could present itself in the final result. And of course, true to the beforementioned ideology, how productive these experiences can be… Or isn’t it a priviledge to be able to point at a presentable result and say it comes out of a disaster? Or isn’t it another romanticising idea about the ‘natural’ precarity of an artist? And what role does it play in managing the stress of making works under conditions that don’t make it possible to go as imagined? Let’s see and discuss together.“ (Text: Courtesy Martin Kohout)