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every year i make a christmas card in video for my friends.

last year’s card made its way to signature brand in the US (thanks brigitte!) who then asked me to do a christmas card for them this year. this is what me and my friends did. and this (above) is a little making-of.

Faust-Camp

The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg together with K3 held a “Faust-Camp” for teenagers and young adults during the autumn holidays. Annika Schmitz (music) and musicans from the Ensemble Resonanz, Friederike Lampert (dance), Liz Rech (performance) and me (video)  held the workshops, using the silent movie “Faust” by F.W.Murnau as a starting point.

mentor

I learnt a lot by being a mentor for Keith Lim’s final piece for his MA in solo performance at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin.

visualizing marathon

I helped a bit with research on organisation to bring the visuazlizing marathon 2011 to Berlin.

Hosting the Porsche International Student Advertising Award for the 3rd time.
teaching

I was asked to teach at the HTW Berlin on a regular basis. The course is about how to put on a great event, in this case the “Goldener Funke - Deutscher Preis für Wirtschaftkommunikation”.

interviews for hello etsy

Preparing for interviews I will be doing with all the interesting speakers of HELLO ETSY. The sumit will take place in Berlin from on September 17th and 18th 2011. Come and join us, even if you are not in berlin!

update: some of them  (eg. Douglas Rushkoff, Natalie Chanin) are online already, all of them will be there mid january.

WUNDER at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

I made two video installations for the WUNDER (miracles) exhibition at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. One is called “Magic gestures” and can be found in the childrens section. The other one is “Alice” (see photos below).

It’s my fourth collaboration with the inspiring PRAUTH.

The exhibtion continues until February 5th 2012.

For this years DLDwomen 2011 I supported the curatorial team and had the pleasure and the privilege to introduce Cindy Gallop on stage.

Again I had the great pleasure to present all the speakers and host the Q&As at Pictoplasma Festival Berlin 2011.

This is a short portrait of one of the artist - mc bess - including some snippets from the interview I did with him on stage (go to 1:50)

And, as every year, I also curated the film program together with pictoplasma founders Peter Thaler and Lars Denicke.