Prof. Tobias Hantmann
Experimental Sculpture / Spatial Art / Body and Space Concepts
Teaching profile
Open-endedness is central to my approach to teaching. The aim is to gain experience through artistic work and to perceive the results as visual material that leads to further experiences. In this playful, never-ending process, one's own fascination can be pursued and condensed into art. The intensive examination of one's own work and that of fellow students, also through linguistic reflection, should form the basis for one's own mediation work as an art teacher.
"Standbein" (foothold)
Formal and material experimentation forms the starting point of every intellectual endeavour. In the studio, supposedly fixed descriptions become unstable and permeable. Only in this way can information be inscribed into materials.
The joint observation of the results and the subsequent linguistic analysis are essentially linked. Conversations, whether in plenary sessions or individual consultations, can best arise very concretely on the basis of what is experienced through testing, planning, speculating, designing and discarding - sometimes especially when the results are not yet "finished". Through its regularity, the plenary session as a form of exchange offers a stable structure that is intended to promote self-confidence in dealing with and talking about one's own work. At the same time, it creates a sense of solidarity and community.
"Spielbein" (free leg)
In my teaching, it is particularly important to me to create situations in which actions are possible that are not channelled in advance by an objective. For example, there is a teaching format that includes walks and excursions within Halle and the surrounding area in which other forms of interaction are trialled.
In addition to regular plenary sessions and individual discussions, the artistic staff hold practice-orientated teaching events. At class evenings and the evening plenary, lectures are held on a regular basis and speakers are invited to complement and enrich the discourse within the class. Last but not least, a class excursion is organised once a semester.