“Feldarbeit” mit Thorsten Neumann
- Location:
- Werkstatthaus Stuttgart, Gerokstraße 7, 70188 Stuttgart
- Date
- March 28, 2025, 7:00 PM
This year, the Werkstatthaus program is dominated by its 40th anniversary. That's why a very special fieldwork event awaits us in March. Thorsten Neumann, director of the Werkstatthaus and initiator of the field work, will talk about his life on this evening.
This year, the Werkstatthaus program is dominated by its 40th anniversary. That's why a very special field work awaits us in March.
Thorsten Neumann, director of the Werkstatthaus and initiator of the field work, will talk about his life on this evening. He will talk about formative projects, music, film and artists that have inspired him and continue to do so.
Inspired by the archives of Joseph Beuys, Anna Oppermann, Hans Peter Feldmann and Peter Piller and by artistic strategies that deal with collecting and archiving objects, Feldarbeit takes up the tradition of oral history. History, reality and fiction meet in storytelling. The format provides a framework for questioning how history is passed on, which facts and
artifacts make up the truth content of personal history and what role the individual plays in the production and reception of their own history. This is not primarily a scientific discourse, but a playful and informal approach to the topic of memory and personal history. The fieldwork can be understood as an autobiographical search for traces that attempts to approach one's own life story using narrative means. The look back is always taken from the present perspective and social situation, in which
facts and fictions are constantly intertwined.
Fieldwork is a free format in which pop-cultural, art-historical and historical discourses intertwine and the speaker can draw on different media. It is the chains of association and spaces of experience of the listeners and viewers that bring the objects to life. Music, books and texts are associated with memories that serve as a means of socialization and identification. Ideally, the fieldwork triggers an impulse in the visitor to pause for a moment and reflect on their own identity and history.