{"id":10520,"date":"2016-03-09T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T11:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:05:28","slug":"lost-in-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"seminare","link":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/en\/seminare\/lost-in-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"
11th artFORUM of the Bettina-von-Arnim-School at the wannseeFORUM, February 7-12, 2016 \u2013 a review:<\/h5>\n

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\u201e"At the hardware store" \u2013 "In the woods" \u2013 "On the New York subway" \u2013 "As a child at the Christmas market" \u2013 "Just now looking for the wannseeFORUM"... The question posed at the beginning of the seminar, "When and where have you ever gotten lost?", elicited as many different answers as there were people in the room \u2013 feeling "lost" happens to us more often than we'd like to admit. The jungle in which we get lost isn't just a tropical rainforest, but also a metaphor \u2013 a symbol for what makes us lose our bearings, yet also what draws us in.<\/p>\n

\u201eLost in the Jungle\u201c was the theme of this year\u2019s art FORUM. For five and a half days at the beginning of February, 45 art-loving high school students from the Bettina-von-Arnim-School<\/a> As guests at the wannseeFORUM, participants in five parallel artistic workshops plunged into the wild thicket of the real or symbolic jungle with enthusiasm and a spirit of discovery. Whether painting (workshop led by Felix Pestemer), experimental filmmaking (Michaela Kniep), pinhole camera construction and photography (Falk Wei\u00df), mixed-media drawing (Lisa Gratzke), or sculpture (Daniela Sch\u00f6nemann), they sought ways to translate the jungle's unique colors, forms, and imagery, as well as the experience of disorientation and being lost, into distinctive artistic projects. The seminar also addressed the historical and political dimensions of the theme, taking a critical look at the jungle as a target of colonial expansion and as a supposedly "exotic" projection screen for the Global North.<\/p>\n

For the well-attended closing exhibition, the wannseeFORUM was transformed into an art space, utilizing unusual locations: the theater hall became an art gallery, restroom walls were turned into projection surfaces, and a unique spatial installation was on display in a basement room in the atrium. Those who missed the presentation of these impressive and diverse artworks will have another opportunity this summer: as part of the Bettina-von-Arnim-School's "More-than-Arts Festival," which will take place from July 4th to 8th, 2016, at various locations in the M\u00e4rkisches Viertel district and is also dedicated to the theme "Lost in the Jungle," some of the works created at the kunstFORUM will be presented to the public again. Visitors are warmly welcome!<\/p>\n

Seminar impressions on Flickr:<\/p>\n

11. kunstFORUM "Lost in the Jungle"<\/a>