Institute for Artistic Research Berlin

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The Institute for Artistic Research Berlin (! KF) was founded in 2009 by the group a rose is , Radialsystem V and members of the Junge Akademie in Berlin as a non-university research institution. In Germany and probably also in Europe! KF Berlin is the first artistic research institution outside the academic system.

In its research projects, the! KF cooperates with universities, other research institutes such as Max Planck Institutes and universities of applied sciences, and maintains collaboration with artists and scientists from various disciplines. The! KF members are scientists, musicians, actors, directors, scenographers and other theater artists from Germany, England, Belgium, Canada, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, the USA and Switzerland. ! KF is based in Berlin. Together with 37 international institutions, the! KF is a founding member of the Society for Artistic Research , which also publishes the Internet specialist journal Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) for artistic research . The artistic director of! KF Berlin, Julian Klein , is a 'Peer Review Editor' on the 'Editorial Board' of the JAR and President of the Society for Artistic Research in the Federal Republic of Germany (GKFD) .

The! KF projects and its theoretical-conceptual publications on artistic research are considered exemplary and fundamental, especially in the German-speaking area, but also beyond. The work of the! KF is in particular evidence and an example of artistic research that goes beyond the discussion about the goal of artistic training at universities and the so-called "third cycle", i.e. the possibility of doctoral studies for art students.

Selection of research projects

The staging in a private apartment in Berlin follows the host on his search for the story of Winfried Freudenberg, who was last dead from the Wall . Quotes from the West Berlin press from 1989, combined with an interview with the responsible commissioner of the West Berlin police, are supplemented with documents from the Stasi records authority and interviews with friends and family members of the injured refugee. The highlight of the production is the appearance of the widow Sabine Freudenberg when she tells the story from her perspective. The evening ends with the playback of the last recording on the B-side of the 10th music cassette that Winfried Freudenberg carried on his balloon: "I wish you peace". This recording stops abruptly because it no longer fully fitted on the tape of the cassette.

  • “Infamous Perspektiven” - Sophiensaele Berlin / Uferstudios Berlin [3] , 2013

The project investigates what fascinates readers about stories from the point of view of murderers, violent criminals or war criminals - and why at the same time the same readers reject reports of the same crimes when they are reported in the press. Where does this discrepancy come from? The Infamous Perspektiven project was devoted to the question of the function of infamous perspective assumption, the motivations, strategies and defense mechanisms of their functionalization. Experts from the infamous takeover of perspective were invited to discuss the status, strategies of takeover and exit, and the social function. The visitors were invited to a self-experiment in which they could read a theater text in an installation that was based on a drama that was written on the basis of a court case against a married couple who murdered their two children. The documentation of the project was published by Theater der Zeit in the research series (Volume 119 - Infame Perspektiven - Limits and Possibilities of Performativity and Imagination, edited by Julian Klein, Martin von Koppenfels, Marion Hirte and Thomas Jacobsen, Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2015)

Hans Schleif was an architect and archaeologist, renowned scientist, professor of ancient architecture, a family man and a high-ranking member of the SS. His grandson, Matthias Neukirch , an actor at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 2011, went in search of his grandfather. The production by Julian Klein was nominated for the Friedrich-Luft-Preis 2011. Guest performances followed. a. to Hanover, Oldenburg, Trier, Lüneburg, Braunschweig, Böhlen, Göttingen, Edinburgh, Poznań, Paris, to the Topography of Terror Berlin, from the Steglitz Cultural Office to the former SS Economic Administration Main Office, and to the Venice Biennale . The Swiss premiere and premiere at the Schauspielhaus Zürich followed on November 13, 2015, with monthly performances since then until 2016. In 2016, a detailed report on the underlying research was published in the yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute.

This performance was part of a study by the working group "Aesthetic Modulation of Affective Valence" at the Free University of Berlin. This study examined the question of whether and under what circumstances the emotion of anger can be enjoyed as pleasurable and enjoyable. The results of this interdisciplinary collaboration between natural scientists, humanities scholars and artists have been published in various formats.

The project, in cooperation with the Berlin Natural History Museum, was dedicated to the question of human urge to order.

management

The! KF - Institute for Artistic Research Berlin is headed by Julian Klein , Ilka Seifert, Bettina Sluzalek, Thomas Jacobsen, Daniel Kötter and the managing director Alexander Schmid.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ! KF - Institute for Artistic Research www.artistic-research.de
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Publications of! KF
  4. ↑ Julian Klein, Martin von Koppenfels, Marion Hirte, Thomas Jacobsen (eds.): Infame Perspektiven - Limits and Possibilities of Performativity and Imagination, Theater der Zeit 2015
  5. ↑ Hans Schleif - Report on the research on the theater production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute, De Gruyter Berlin 2016
  6. ↑ Conversation by Martin Tröndle and Julian Klein about the theater experiment “Brain Check” How can research be artistic? in: Tröndle M., Warmers J. (Ed.): Art research as aesthetic science. Bielefeld: transcript 2011.
  7. ↑ Julian Klein: Emotional Theater? - Notes on the feel of the game. Forum Modernes Theater 25 (1): 77-91 (2010)
  8. ↑ Valentin Wagner, Julian Klein, Julian Hanich, Mira Shah, Winfried Menninghaus, Thomas Jacobsen: Anger Framed: A Field Study on Emotion, Pleasure, and Art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Dec 14, 2015