This publication presents documents from the international, interdisciplinary project Training Creative Acts and Action, held in Schwerin from September 17 to 21, 2025.
The intensive workshop Training Creative Acts and Action brought together artistic practice, theory, and research in an exchange between international artists and scholars. At its core, the project explored the concepts of training, exercise, practice, action, and mediation—understood both as artistic and social forms of agency. Taking Hannah Arendt’s question, “what we do when we think,” as a point of departure, the project examined how thought, body, and action intertwine, and how artistic research itself can become a site of critical inquiry. Through theoretical impulses and practical exercises, artistic research was approached from diverse disciplinary perspectives—as a form of thinking and acting—and its role in social and political discourse was reflected upon.
The project was organized by the Institute for Environment and Design (IUG)—the part of our dual institute that, as a mobile and experimental structure, connects research, teaching, and artistic practice in open, process-oriented ways. Accordingly, Training Creative Acts and Action emphasized the importance of contemporary research that transcends disciplinary boundaries, conceiving artistic practice as a mode of knowledge production and as a collective, experience-based process.
With contributions from:
T. J. Demos, Stephanie R. Dvareckas, Knut Ebeling, Isa Fontbona, Antonia Gradnitzer, Marie Götze, Alex Gross, Anna Helfer, Christina Irrgang, Cyrill Lim, Daria Nedelcu, Johanne Mohs, Katharina Neuburger, Nina Nielebock, Grégoire Rousseau, Göze Saner, Peter Seeland, Nora Sternfeld, Verena Straub, Irène Unholz, and Georg Winter.
The publication is edited by Nina Nielebock and designed by Theodor Schäfer for the IUG | Institute for Environment & Design
- Notes on Uecker – Digital
- IUG Digital · 2026
- 68 Seiten, Englisch