petition. work / ActivitieS
Authorship and Performance
_2024 / 2025
The petition.work performance is a series of four events throughout the year, performed by students to show not only the results of their aesthetic-ethical work, but the whole process of design. The performance itself is conceived as a media "product of togetherness".
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Kloster Altenberg – a Hagiographic Center
On site, in some sene around the Altenberger Altar (the central object of an exhibition at the Städel Museum in 2016) we are working on how the monastery can once again become a vibrant place of intellectual and spiritual engagement. We are concentrating on developing a contemporary form of hagiography to become an elementary part of contemporary action, focusing on ethics and charity. In this context, the following activity "become holy" belongs.
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Lectures from the Sacred Field
What does it mean to become holy in our time? In the 21st century, humanity seems to be caught in a tension between a secularization completely oriented towards material things and an irreconcilable religious extremism.
We must define the concept of holiness as something that goes beyond the one and the other, as an unavailability that belongs only to the Absolute, which we identify with God and find in the narratives of those who dedicate themselves to the unconditional becoming of the sacred.
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"if not (-) what else / could save the world" is a project for students of communication design, which aims to take an individual position in terms of ideas, concepts, figures that are supposed to bring salvation.
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