{"id":10634,"date":"2012-07-26T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.sma-jobblog.com\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T11:20:10","slug":"with-energy-employees-as-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sma-sunny.com\/en\/with-energy-employees-as-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"With Energy: Employees as Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kassel is in the throws of art fever. dOCUMENTA (13) is in full swing and has transformed Kassel into an art metropolis for 100 days. This energy has even spilled over to some of our employees. Over 30 SMA employees took part in four workshops, lead by artists, to create their very own artwork. The motto: Energy \u2260 Art. The results weren\u2019t bad. We took a peek over the shoulders of these \u201cartists\u201d as they worked.<\/p>\n

On\/Off<\/h5>\n

Andreas Stefanovic, together with five colleagues, took part in the \u201cOn\/Off\u201d workshop lead by artists Katharina Wenderoth and Katinka Lotz. The workshop worked with \u201clight\u201d. By using fluorescent material, the idea was to create installations that could be changed by using light. This meant that amidst all the wires, styrofoam and tape, the light switch was an essential element. You could only see your \u201ctrue\u201d work of art once the lights were off. And so, these SMA employees taped, cut, bent, wrapped and painted diligently, allowing their creativity to run free.<\/p>\n

The Blind Queen<\/h5>\n
\"Andi\"<\/a>

Andreas tinkers his own blind queen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Andy created \u201cThe Blind Queen.\u201d He wrote me this about his \u201cmasterpiece:\u201d \u201cI started to create without any real plan. The idea of a bright little person soon came to me. Some are likely thinking \u2018oh how creative.\u2019 I thought the same at first, but due to the tight time frame of only four hours, I just went with it. The little person quickly evolved into a woman. I decided on neon yellow for the main color, and as best as I could with my limited craftsmanship, I hurried to create an elegant woman. She was so fine that I decided to make her a little crown out of orange wire at the end. And while she might have been nice to look at, my barely-there sense for modern art was certainly not on display… so I gave her a black blindfold. And if THAT isn\u2019t art, then I don’t know what is.\u201d Me neither. Well done, Andi<\/p>\n

Recycling-Mobil\u00e9<\/h5>\n
\"documenta_leonie\"<\/a>

SMA Employees at the d13 \u201cMobile\u201d Workshop<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThings the world doesn\u2019t need\u201d were given a second chance at the \u201cRecycling-Mobil\u00e9\u201d workshop lead by Iris Hollstein. There the focus was on process of restructuring that certainly required energy.\u201cIt\u2019s amazing what all you can do with seemingly useless stuff,\u201d said Julia Endt who participated in and thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. The mobil\u00e9s were made using recovered objects made out of metal, plastic, wood and glass. \u201cBasically trash, which then becomes part of a completely balanced system suspended in the air,\u201d Julia added.<\/p>\n

Colorless with Color<\/h5>\n

Everything is allowed, even painting over something. The works of art created in the \u201cColorless with Color\u201d workshop with Nora von der Decken were all made without being able to see what you were doing. Annette Barth described working with the colorless oil chalks and color powders as \u201can extremely suspenseful process.\u201d \u201cThe results are great,\u201d said Barth. \u201cIt will be difficult for me to part with the picture,\u201d as the created works will be displayed during the SMA employee festival and auctioned off for a good cause. However, Annette will still have the opportunity to bid on it herself.<\/p>\n

Prehistoric Money<\/h5>\n

The last workshop dealt with making individual coins. Single images and symbols served as patterns for the table-tennis-sized copper discs. \u201cIt was amazing how much preparation and time it took just to create a draft,\u201d said B\u00e4rbel Berger. The head artist of the workshop, Milen Krastev, explained that \u201cthe energy input starts to shine during the development process.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Experiment Proved Successful<\/h5>\n

The response to the art initiative was very positive. \u201cIt\u2019s great that SMA enables such things,\u201d said Johanna Opolka from Service. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to do something completely different to what you normally do.\u201d Now we\u2019re anxious to see what her colleagues say once her works are displayed during the employee festival in mid-August.<\/p>\n\n\n

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