Every year since 2008 the artist Michael A. Holst does his creative Summer Workshop in Kronberg, Germany. Due to the corona pandemic, this year everything was different. Together with his colleague Marcellus M. Menke he did a totally digital workshop. The amazing result of this experiment can be seen in this little booklet. Done in the feel and look of a children's book, it is a strong political statement of the group of young international artists who took part in the workshop. In the Appendix you find an Interview with Michael A. Holst and Marcellus M. Menke, additional background information about the workshop and its participants and some sketches portraying the participants. Text in English and German. Seit 2008 veranstaltet der Künstler Michael A. Holst jedes Jahr seinen kreativen Sommerworkshop in Kronberg, Deutschland. Aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie war dieses Jahr alles anders. Zusammen mit seinem Kollegen Marcellus M. Menke führte er einen vollständig digitalen Workshop durch. Das erstaunliche Ergebnis dieses Experiments ist in diesem kleinen Büchlein zu sehen. Es hat die Anmutung eines Kinderbuchs doch sein Inhalt ist ein starkes politisches Statement der Gruppe junger internationaler Künstler, die an diesem Workshop teilgenommen haben. Im Anhang findet sich ein Interview mit Michael A. Holst und Marcellus M. Menke, zusätzliche Hintergrundinformationen über den Workshop und seine Teilnehmer sowie einige Skizzen, die die Teilnehmer porträtieren.
Is it possible to write poetry in a language other than one's mother tongue? The English Poems of an Unknown German Poet are the attempt. Written in the years 2015 to 2022, after phases of intensive reading and working with English texts, they lie in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, one's own world entering a foreign one and a foreign world touching familiar spheres. Mutual interaction between understanding and incomprehension, as an exercise to focus on real truthfulness. And of course in these poems always a companion: a smile. Present in its whole range from a soft warm smile only as a guess on one's lips to a sometimes even bitterly sarcastic ironic grin, may be the only answer in a confusingly unusual time.
In the beginning, the trace of a soft pencil on a piece of paper. Soon it is filled with numbers and formulas. A young woman becomes involved in the project of the man in whose ideas hardly anyone wants to believe. The application for his research project is rejected by an overpowering computer system. Two days after the rejection, the man is dead. Nonetheless, his thoughts develop a surprising life of their own.
Of course, Natalie Portner was not on Mars. But she was there with her eyes, and the visual impressions the images of probes and rovers made on her led to a complex emotional response. That Emotional Response is found in the fourteen never-before-publicly-shown images reproduced in this book. A powerful appeal for a love of the world we live in and a call to live with awareness and responsibility. The art of Natalie Portner breaks the conceptual aesthetic rules of the classical concept of art. The quality of her work is in its demand on the viewer, a challenging manifesto that makes committed art and responsible living a unity.
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