Lectures by professionals
Wednesday, 26.08.
Wednesday 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Roland Matthies
Title: Discovering the „state before the action“: The Neutral Mask
The Neutral Mask doesn’t have any dramatic expression, and allows the actor to explore a state of pure presence, in the here and now of space. With this mask the actor explores the state of neutrality that exists before the action. The Neutral Mask has no memory and no projects, it lives in the present, and allows the actor to explore the most efficient movement state: the economy of movement.
Once the actor has discovered this space, s/he becomes like “a white page, ready to be written on in the future dramas“ (Jacques Lecoq).
Through the Neutral Mask the actor discovers a state of physical presence, calm and openness to space. It’s a challenge because in terms of movement, no-body is neutral: every-body carries themes that are profoundly expressive em-bodied in everyday movement. There is a web of "non-neutral attitudes" and physical and emotional “background noises" within each person's movement and physical presence. If observed through the reference of the Neutral State, this web appears like painting/markings on a white sheet. They are “dramatic” in the etymological sense.
We will be working with carefully crafted leather masks. The masks have different sizes and fits - each mask is unique.
Roland Matthies is an actor and has been teaching theatre in drama schools all over Europe. He studied with Etienne Decroux and at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He also directs plays with several companies – lately his interpretation of Harrowers Knives in Hens with the company Le Mercredi Bleu could be seen in Bremen/Germany. In August 2014 he was a fellow of the Foundation Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö, Sweden for the staging of „Sacrifice“, a performance inspired by Andrej Tarkowski.
Thursday, 27.08.
Thursday 10.30 - 12.00 am
Cavit Zırtlan
Social Pedagogue
Curative Educator
Anthroposophy , Education and Art Abstract As a human being, we need to reach our full potentials. But, how can we reach such potential in today’s rapid changing world? It is clear world will be so different in the future and we need to be ready for the future as well. We can’t meet the challenges of the future with the educational ideologies of the 19th century. We need a new approach that values different models of intelligence and that cultivates creative relationships between disciplines and between education, commerce and the wider community.
To reach our full potentials, first we need to understand ourselves as human beings in deeper sense. In terms of Education and Art, Anthroposophy gives us the clear and full guidance in building a healthy connection.
From this perspective, the art can be an essential part of learning in any settings. Human soul and mind need to be flourished in the hand of art and creativity. To set the right connection between art and education, approaches from the Anthroposophy needs to be used in any practice.
Cavit Zırtlan studied Media, Curative Education and Social Pedagogy. He lived in UK for 12 years and during that time he met Antroposophy, Curative Education and Waldorf Approach in Education. He works as a Social Care and Education consultant at Orhaneli Town Council in Turkey.
Thursday 4.00 - 5.30 pm
Friederike Holtmann
Title: "My creative personality"
Probably in the future you will work as self employed or as a freelancer. Your talent is to work with people and you have an special creative talent. You have the big wish to do something good. That' s why you should think about your self organisation.
Actually I am writing a book about self- and time management for creative' s. The aim is to give creative' s a special reader to understand and organises themselves easer.
Here today we are all more or less creative persons. But what makes us so creative? How is creativity functioning, what is my creative personality and how to handle it?
First we will find out what that can be - creativity and how is it developed in the last two hundred years.
I will give you an idea what sort of creative person you are by looking on your needs, your wishes and aims, your balance between structure and creative chaos.
At the end there are three important tools to handle with - my personal organisation,
my feeling of time and to does and my personal border, learn to say no!
Friederike Holtmann studied culture science. She worked in culture management and lived over years in France and Portugal where she was a musician too. She made a qualification as coach and change manager and is working now as lecturer at different schools, she is training communication, self marketing, teambuilding, stress- and self management and presentation.
Friday 28.08.
Friday 10.3o - 12.00 am
Isabel Lunansky
Title: “The Non-Verbal Approach in Music Therapy & Arts-Therapy”
What minds the Non-Verbal Approach? Witch kind of communication we can establish trough the Non-Verbal Approach? Who can communicate trough the Non-Verbal Approach?. It is the Non-Verbal Approach a really way of Communication?
Many questions for a unique answer…the really power of the Non-Verbal Approach can broke all kind of frontiers and open the most deep and true level of Communication, the world of our feelings and our senses. Like the firsts interactions between mother and baby, the look, be touched, smiling,
singing and listening a beautiful song, Art therapists have the privilege to use the same resources to help, alleviate and benefit theyre patients for a vital impulse , awakening creativity in the constant search of Health and enjoyment of freedom to support a full and happy level of life.
Isabel Luñansky
BC R Music Therapy. Psychoanalist. Singer & painter. Director of the Training Program of Music Therapy of MUSITANDO, the School of Music Therapy of Madrid and President of the International Music Therapists Association ASIMU. International Lecturer/Trainer.
Friday 4.00 - 5.30 pm
Dr. Uwe Gonther
Title: Psychosis and creativity – a vivid relationship
“I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”
Following these words of William Shakespeare´s Hamlet I will point out that it is a quite frequent behaviour in the process of upcoming psychosis to play psychotic symptoms. Even on the long run of Schizophrenia we find a lot of acting as if being mad. This is to understand not only in terms of defence. The patient tries to gain control over the otherwise overwhelming draft of disorganisation. Hence many psychotic symptoms for example some bizarre movements or odd pronounciation occur some kind of dramatic. To some extent all mentally and physically ill present their symptoms in a role- play. Therapists answer to that by playing their own role, like the wise and friendly uncle doctor or the aggressive fighter against a diabolic disease.
The clue for psychotherapy lies in using this creativity and dynamic power of the patient for therapeutical purposes. Especially in art-therapy we shouldn’t be too shy to take part in the patients play in a professional manner. Drama-therapy can deal with this as well as it is possible to take the patients hallucinations and illusions as a basis for painting. Some clinical cases will be discussed. Doing so we change the perspective on such symptoms and can regard art-therapy as an important contribution to the recovery-commitment in psychiatry.
Uwe Gonther, M.D., Professor of psychiatry at the hks Ottersberg, Head of the Ameos-Klinikum Dr. Heines Bremen, research about German poet Friedrich Hölderlin and psychiatry.
Saturday 29.08.
Saturday 10.30 -12.00 am
Peter Sinapius
Title: „Our roots, my resources"
An investigation
An anniversary like the 10th birthday of the 4arts-conference is a chance, to look back and to face the future: Where are our roots and what are our resources to develop theory and practice of art therapy. Together we will organize a space to explore where we come from, where we are and where we are going: With artistic means we examine our roots and resources in art therapy and try to figure out what we have and what we need.
As with any artistic experiment the result of this investigation is unpredictable.
Peter Sinapius is a painter and Art therapist. He is professor at MSH Medical School Hamburg (Germany) and runs the program "Expressive Arts in Social Transformation." He is active in national and international research projects about Art therapy and is director of the Institute for Subjective Experience and Research (ISER). Peter Sinapius has a PhD. from the European Graduate School (EGS) with his dissertation "Aesthetics of Therapeutic Relationships." He is the editor of the series „Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen der künstlerischen Therapien“ („Scientific Foundations of Arts Therapy“) and is member of the advisory boards of various international journals. He has published numerous books on theory and practice of Art therapy.