Press release and invitation
Fine artists, writers, and musicians collaborate with children, young people, and adult students, transforming six locations within Cologne’s City Centre into a temporary Landscape of the Arts.
Press Conference: 22 April, 2 pm, Hansa-Gymnasium, Hansaring 56, CologneOpening of the ART SPECIAL: route: 22 April, 7 pm, Hansa-Gymnasium
Exhibitions and events coincide with ARTCologne: 22 – 25 April 2010
Opening Hours: Thu. 7 – 10 pm, Fri & Sat. noon – 9 pm, Sun. noon – 5 pm)
Literature turns into music, school is transformed into a castle in the air, and the pupils become the artists’ accomplices
ART SPECIAL: offers students the rare opportunity to experience and influence the creation of art in collaboration with prominent artists.
This interdisciplinary art project was initiated by the Hansa-Gymnasium, which is a participating institution in the UNESCO Associated Schools
Project Network
and it is celebrating its fifth edition in 2010. ART SPECIAL: 2010 is dedicated to the idea of networking, reflected in this year’s project in
which the school—in its capacity as a co-agent within the network “Bildungslandschaft Altstadt Nord” (BAN)—will utilize external sites belonging
to the network partners. Twenty artists and seventeen student/artist teams will be active in ART SPECIAL: as well as fifty school students as
patrons to the artists, as mediators between them and the school community as co-organisers and chroniclers. Together with the sound artist
Erwin Stache, for example, lower school children are converting the drawing room of the Hansa-Gymnasium into an interactive sound space; or,
one floor up, the writer Juli Zeh has allowed fragments of her writing to be turned into music by a group of sixth performers. Pupils from the
Junior High School will be erecting a proverbial castle in the air in the schoolyard, and at the night school’s cafeteria walls a mural will be
painted by pupils in collaboration with the painter, Peter Zimmermann. Literary Rooms will take shape—multimedia spaces created by young people
with reference to the works or biographies of the respective authors, in which the latter will then conduct readings. Teachers and parents have
also been integrated into the range of different activities.
| Fine Arts: | Alexander Basile, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Thomas Rentmeister, Silke Schatz, Ina Weber, Peter Zimmermann
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| Literature: | Jaume Cabré, Florian Cieslik, Kathrin Röggla, Anja Tuckermann, Juli Zeh |
| Sonic Arts: | boris d hegenbart-matsui, hans w. koch, Joker Nies and Stan Lafleur, Erwin Stache,
Stephanie Thiersch and Olaf Hirschberg, Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann |
| Curated by: | Uta M. Reindl, Georg Dietzler |
Press Contact: presse@artspecial.de, (Tel 01577 9095285, Miriam Matuszkiewicz)
