NORA SCHULTZ

Last summer’s course directed by Nora Schultz was based on the metaphor of a terminal. In an interview with the blogger Rafael Dernbach, she elaborated on this metaphor and the working methods in her class: „The students move in the terminal and they produce in there. They perceive the three weeks of the academy as a continuous working with this inbetween space. How do you find materials? How do you get them here to this exclusive space at the Festung? All these difficulties are preconditions for the production. I also would like to see the entire course already as some kind of a happening or a performance, although there are no spectators. What does it mean to work in a place where you are stuck and have no fixed identity? What does it mean to work in a space that is hyper-real and a ‘junk space’ at the same time?
This year, Nora Schultz will direct a three-week course with focus on an expanded sculptural production, regarding the external world as a possible partner in a sculpture, with (and to) which it can configure expanded perspectives.

If you are in Berlin, you can see Nora Schultz’s work within the group show “Secret Surface” at Kunst-Werke, to be open this Saturday, 13 February, 5 p.m.

Watch here the video of a performance she did at Tate in 2014 followed by an interview with the curator Catherine Wood.