November 12 – 13, 2024, 10 am – 12:30 pm

Many thanks to the curator, writer and art critic An Paenhuysen for her workshop introducing our participants to CREATIVE STRATEGIES: How We Met: Co-Creation in Art during the basic course within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.

“What can you do together that you can’t do on your own? In the workshop we explore co-creation as a way to open up new possibilities for making art.

Our main inspiration is Fluxus, a movement in which a collaborative, playful approach and friendship were central. Take, for instance, the Instructions by Yoko Ono or the Me-and-You-Shops of Takiko Saito. One artist in particular, Robert Filliou, will inspire us to think, write and create collectively. We will take his game book “Games At The Cedilla, or The Cedilla Takes Off” (1967) and his multi-book “Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts” (1970) as a lead.  

About Robert Filliou (1926-1987): he was a self-taught artist who, coming from economics, merged art with philosophy, linguistics, Buddhism. His output took on many forms and was experimental, including a gallery in a hat, a non-shop and a gong lecture. Filliou favoured using simple materials such as cardboard and found objects, and co-creation was his favourite way to go about.” (Text by courtesy of An Paenhuysen)

An Paenhuysen is an independent curator, writer and art critic based in Berlin. From 2019 to 2022 she was the director of ‘The House of The Deadly Doris’, where she organised events to activate its 1980s punk archive. Recently, An curated ‘Hotel Belgrade’, the main venue for Belgrade Art Week 2021 and  in 2022 ‘Sign and Arts. Deaf Culture / Hearing Culture’ at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. An wrote her PhD about the cultural criticism of the Belgian artistic avant-garde. She was a post-doc researcher at UC Berkeley, Columbia University New York and Humboldt University Berlin. An has published her writing in Spike Magazine, Contemporary And, Sotheby’s, Berlin Art Link, etc. She also writes poetry: Silly Poems (Arthur Cravan Foundation) and Island Life (Quince Ediciones). In 2020 she founded the publishing project AAAAA PPPPP Publishing for short format art writing.

More information on the An Paenhuysen Website.