Antonia Isabelle Weisz
Antonia Isabelle Weisz is a German ethnologist M.A., coach, conceptual artist, author, poet.
Since 2007 she has been leading ‚learning and encounter formats’ with groups of different generations, cultures, religions and worldviews in which poetic methods and artistic design are used as participative methods of communication. In the three figures: learner, traveller, artist, in general, Antonia Isabelle Weisz finds the creative qualities and attitudes that we need as humans to cope with the challenges of the transition from an industrial to a digital society, in our globalised world. In 2016 she was honoured for her commitment by the former Federal President of Germany Joachim Gauck. On the project Weisz created moments of pause, for creative reflections on individual and collective experiences in the context of own and shared learning moments, in Jerusalem, Israel. She supported the participants in the creative process and in the |
creative confrontation with the foreign, which also included an engagement with one's own.
Classical stereotypical thinking was thus broken through. The creative process acted as a 'third theme' and connecting element. The different perspectives in the texts of the participants show the diversity of the group, the multi-layered experiences of the individuals and yet, according to the principle of collage, they combine to a whole - the journey to Jerusalem, 2018. Weisz own collage work about the journey to Jerusalem 2018: Similar to a mosaic Weisz created in the aftermath of the journey a collection of collage sheets, made from material she collected on site. Thus the collages contain texts and everyday objects, souvenirs, everyday papers, newspapers alternating with simple colour drawings, which illustrate the manifold themes of the journey, such as: understanding, language, religion, environmental pollution, high-tech, anti-semitism, learning, celebrations, democracy. The individual sheets can be flexibly combined to create ever new chains of associations that tell of the journey. |