Community Arts Lab Augsburg (CALA)

For whom and with whom are the symbolic goods produced in the field of art?

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The pandemic and the turn of the times mark a rupture for the performative arts. In the face of lockdown, exploding war costs and new austerity, artists have to re-legitimise themselves. The "Community Arts Lab Augsburg (CALA)" takes this crisis of art as an opportunity to redefine its relationship to the social world.

For whom and with whom are the symbolic goods produced in the field of art? These two questions form the leitmotif of CALA (Community Arts Lab, Augsburg). In four subprojects, students of the HfG Karlsruhe are experimenting with various interventions, processes and connections in response to these questions together with residents of the Augsburg-Oberhausen district. The subprojects touch on practices of sensory ethnography, science fiction and memory culture, agitprop, and surrealism.

CALA is a cooperation initiated by Julian Warner involving various people from Augsburg-Oberhausen, students from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and the Brecht Festival Augsburg. The individual subprojects are also supervised by Prof. Constanze Fischbeck, Veronika Maurer, Alina Derya Yakaboylu, Lena Immler, Sebastian Wallner and Sabine Klötzer.

Emma Benker, Jaya Demmer, Lina Determann, Rahel Diederich, Marie Herrndorff, Luca Ihns, Arno Kälberer, Henriette Schwabe, Isabel Winter (Students HfG Karlsruhe), Prof. Constanze Fischbeck, Hanne König, Julian Warner, Alina Yakaboylu (Mentoring), Sabine Klötzer (Production Management) & Sebastian Wallner (Technical Assistance)