Eine Krise bekommen

As a collective, we critically engage with teaching practices as well as the structures of art universities, organizing formats for exchange, learning, and action. We (Destina Atasayar, Katharina Brenner, Lu Herbst, and Lucie Jo Knilli) studied together in the Visual Communication Bachelor’s program at the University of the Arts Berlin, where we first came together as a collective while collaborating on the publication Eine Krise bekommen. From 2021 to 2023, we organized readings, lectures, workshops, and a summer school.

Seminars/Workshops/Events/Interventions

“Eine Krise bekommen: Design und Psychische Gesundheit”, University of the Arts Berlin, 2021.
Reading and Release Party of the publication “Eine Krise bekommen”, University of the Arts Berlin, 2021.
Guests at “a soft academic revolution — studentisch initiiertes Seminar zur kollektiven Aufarbeitung, Kritik und kreativen Auseinandersetzung mit den vergangenen Corona-Semestern”, Europäische Medienwissenschaft, FH Potsdam, 2021.
“Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen”, University of the Arts Berlin, 2022.
“Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschulen”, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, 2022.
“Wir müssen Ihnen leider mitteilen …”, University of the Arts Berlin, 2022.
“A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments”, M.1 (Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt), 2023.

Publications/Articles

Eine Krise bekommen

Free Radicals, Floating ~~University~~

2021

📄 You can download the article as a pdf here.

The Radical Newspaper is a multilayered documentation gathering the voices of (almost) 18 collectives willing to carry out interdisciplinary practices or researches, and to engage with pressing matters of our times: notions of ecologies, humanities, experimental life forms, political and social engagement as well as care for ourselves and our surrounding. This newspaper is a messy conversation, a wild way for us to get to know about each other’s practices and exchange about our joys and struggles, and for YOU to think and wonder/wander with us. ARE YOU FREE? ARE YOU RADICAL? This article also allowed the seminar group to reflect on the seminar “Eine Krise bekommen: Design und Psychische Gesundheit” (2021), which was part of the Free Radicals programme (Floating ~~University~~) as well as the Studium Generale (UdK Berlin).