{"id":2532,"date":"2025-10-29T11:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guenther-uecker-institut.de\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:21:03","slug":"review-training-creative-acts-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guenther-uecker-institut.de\/en\/review-training-creative-acts-and-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap of Training Creative Acts and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <strong>September 17 to 21, 2025<\/strong>, the international and interdisciplinary project <em>Training Creative Acts and Action<\/em> of the <strong>Institute for Environment &amp; Design (IUG)<\/strong> took place in Schwerin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intensive workshop <em>Training Creative Acts and Action<\/em> brought together artistic practice, theory, and research in an exchange between international artists and scholars. At its core, the project explored the concepts of <em>training<\/em>, <em>exercise<\/em>, <em>practice<\/em>, <em>action<\/em>, and <em>mediation<\/em>\u2014understood both as artistic and social forms of agency. Taking Hannah Arendt\u2019s question, <em>\u201cwhat we do when we think,\u201d<\/em> 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\u2014as a form of thinking and acting\u2014and its role in social and political discourse was reflected upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of Schwerin became a space for thought and action, where art, the public sphere, and academia entered into dialogue. Central locations of the program included the <strong>S\u00e4ulengeb\u00e4ude<\/strong> on the market square, the <strong>Cathedral<\/strong> featuring G\u00fcnther Uecker\u2019s <em>Lichtb\u00f6gen<\/em>, the <strong>State Museum Schwerin<\/strong>, the <strong>bridge at Wittenburger Stra\u00dfe<\/strong>, the <strong>Lenin Monument<\/strong>, the <strong>International Firefighting Museum<\/strong>, <strong>Berliner Platz<\/strong>, and the <strong>Kunstverein f\u00fcr Mecklenburg und Vorpommern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was organized by the <strong>Institute for Environment and Design (IUG)<\/strong>\u2014the part of our dual institute that, as a mobile and experimental structure, connects research, teaching, and artistic practice in open, process-oriented ways. Accordingly, <em>Training Creative Acts and Action<\/em> 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. Through its international scope, its research-oriented character, and its embedding within the city\u2019s cultural infrastructure, the project made Schwerin visible as a site of contemporary and experimental cultural work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participants (in alphabetical order):<\/strong><br>T. J. Demos, Stephanie R. 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