For ten years, five to seven artists have been meeting in Namedy in the summer for the project "Art in the Park", which was planned and organised for the first time in 2003 by Dirk Weingartz from Mayen in cooperation with Burg Namedy. Once again this year, the INSTITUT INTRARE of the Design Campus of the Trier University of Applied Sciences and the project's director and conceptual designer Prof. Anna Bulanda-Pantalacci invited students from all disciplines of the Design Department to participate in this project.
"The old park of Burg Namedy offers a wonderful platform for the encounter of art with nature: Installations, sculptures, performance art - all of these can be lived out here. The artist is in dialogue with these encounters: Transience - death - life and the metamorphoses that result lead to new, unplanned statements. Many artists have left their traces - many traces have been distorted, destroyed by nature. For the viewer, Namedy Castle is a place to experience art in its own unique way and to live out one's own fantasies and ideas." Princess Heide von Hohenzollern
Jasmin Schlesiger (MFA) about her installation "Himmelsstufen":
"Between "Heaven & Earth" - Man has always tried to get closer to heaven. The mountaineer who climbs to the summit or the pilot who even moves through the air. As a connection between "below" and "above", the staircase, which enables simple ascending and descending, is probably the oldest means. Even Stone Age people built steps to connect different levels.
Trees also grow towards the sky, at least until man comes along and forcibly takes away their direction of growth, as well as their growth itself.
But now branches, trunk and foliage serve man to rise again towards the sun and moon. One day, however, wood and leaves will become soil again. Then the cycle will start all over again and the land will enable another tree to spread its root system in it and give it stability when it wants to reach up towards the sky.
The difference between the stairs and going up a slope is the "finishing" on one level, the "step by step". The "Five Steps" always emerge: Five Stages of Participation, Five Stages of Grief, Five Stages to Self-Realisation. In the end, it's about completing a process. But do we really conclude after the last step? Because still the goal seems so far away..."
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