Das fliegende Künstlerzimmer

For me, the flying artist’s room is…

a place where you can see yourself and the world from a different angle, come up with new things and reinvent yourself. In the Flying Artist’s Room there’s space for all kinds of ideas, no matter how crazy they are. It’s a safe space where you can research, play, design and also simply just be, free and without pressure.
A place where you can openly and light-heartedly exchange ideas and also make a significant contribution – apart from its creative added value – to harmonious and constructive cooperation. I’m convinced that there’s generally too little space in which you can develop that is removed from the stress of performance, productivity and image cultivation. That’s why I consider it a special privilege to be able to be part of the flying artist’s room and experience and help shape it.

I’m passionate about…

stories and characters, both real and fictional. From both an artistic and a personal perspective, they give me entertainment, catharsis, coping strategies and solutions. On top of this, they open up quite new angles of vision and worlds and for the most part I don’t even need to get out of bed for it. The heroes of the stories, regardless of whether they are classic or unappealing or complex, give me more understanding of the apparently unfathomable motivations and templates of who I want or never want to be. Stories make an apparently confusing and overwhelming reality for me more bearable and understandable. They also help me understand myself better.

is an opportunity for me to think, say and do things that are personally alien to me. It’s also a kind of expansion of consciousness. So just like when I’m reading or writing or watching a film and immerse myself in the thoughts and emotional world of a character, when I’m performing I see what’s around me differently. On top of this, becoming another person is also a good opportunity to do and say things that I’d never do or say myself.

“As someone who finds that the time with participants in a workshop or a club is too short, I feel particularly drawn to the concept of the life in the playground and a year of intense project work.”

Claudia Sárkány, artist-in-residence 2021/2022

My vision…

In my year in the flying artist’s room, I want to develop and nurture with the students a joint way of working and an artistic exchange in which all participants with their respective special interests, talents and inclinations can enjoy and express themselves as much as possible and, despite the apparent fun and levity, can talk about something honest and personal.

If I could fly…

I’d continually visit places and people all over the world (without a guilty conscience because no fuel is being consumed). And every now and then I’d throw confetti and sweets over unsuspecting passers-by. Just like that.