"An entire theater - on a sheet of paper"" | Johannes Volkmann | TEDxBonn"
hello ladies and gentlemen and may I introduce myself I am a brush yes a normal simple paintbrush I've made in China traveled to Germany bought by an artist called John Collins Folkman by the way most of the money got the companies not the producer well and now I am here to to talk to talk to you what what can a simple paintbrush - in our world full of problems and injustice what can art be in that world I think I have to think about it I need a bit time why why does why isn't it possible to create a world where everybody have a healthy place to stay why can't why can't the religious the different religious not pray to one God for a peaceful world why can't we organize our financial system not in in that way that everybody have a profit whoo I can't be feel that we all sail on one boat and so well what what can a little simple art brush do in that world I think I need a cut we need to cut a cut in thoughts do you remember 2008-2009 the finite finance rate rise grows up all over the world and well everybody was talking about the money it seems that money it's like God on our wealth so well I I thought what is important beside the money so what is priceless for me and for everybody so I want to develop this question and I give and I gave this question a picture a big picture I stand up a big table in the main square of Nonnberg it was about 50 meters and I covered it with paper and even all the the plates about 300 and the spoons and the knives were covered in papers of it it was a big picture public sculpture and then I invited everybody to to write into the plate what is priceless for you so a big exhibition grows up in Nuremberg on the main square and afterwards well I make pictures of all the photos and the plates and and I make photographs so postcards that you now can sell all the ideas of the people to your friends but then I thought well the world is so big how does the other people would write into their plates and I Drive it for years through the world to ask the people and then I create a book out of it inside you can see the different meanings the different opinions of the people we travel to pass Ilona during the you know maybe you'll remember it was the time of the Occupy movement we have been in Egypt one year of the revolution with the table stood in Alexandria we even tried to develop this project in Israel and Palestine and so even on that place the people could could wrote their answer into the plate we've been in India we've been in China we've been in Ecuador and in the end I thought what what shall I do with all that how should the project go on how can the question be bigger because the world is so big and well I'm only a small artist so inside the book I found a solution it's written down so now everybody can do this project by his own there's a big description inside now in different places other artists share this question and I were free for another cut I create another book it's called conference of children well because all over the world the people wrote that their children are priceless and that they have a happy and a good life so while I thought it might be interesting to ask the children what they need to have a happy to have a good life with the future so this one is a question book children could write their answers inside and all the books together they send it to the paper theater and we create an exhibition out of it it rose up library further on we even go to different places and work with the children together in a three day workshop so in three days they create out of their books their own conference theatre the project runs from 2040 to 2080 and on the end we make a conference they get full confidence yes you understand well the topic the topic all books were shown and even we try to invite the children so that maybe hopefully the world gets a bit more shiny if the people read what the children need but one question still is in my head what can a little art brush do in this in this big world for full of full of different things what shall i develop together I mean together a well but but I'm an artist yes I mean I'm an artist too so together art together okay why not so well on that point we create the arts or some inconstant you know it's an organization without being an organization it's just a free space a free space for everybody who wants to develop project projects and use the art to go further on at the moment we do to two projects one of them it's called unders have um denken that means well try to in another direction it runs in Nuremburg and even in field so together in both studies we create a book as well and if you are interested you can look inside later on well and the other project is called the inner city the inner city it's it's a project where we try to develop the relationship inside the cities because well you know at the moment the cities are well in tension with with the refugees and so we try to to make well it is it is like a registration and artists registration and with this artists registration we go inside the refugees houses and give the people a picture of themself and then we make an exhibition out of it but the pictures are covered in paper as well and you only can see it if you pay 10 euros and with this money the refugees can cook for the people on the end of the exhibition so well this Sousa mean kunst developed since November 2015 and we are we were in four cities at the moment in Bavarian cities and but it's still the question what is the next step well this is the next step now I'm here on that time and I'm thinking how can many little art brush paintbrush create a better world thank you for your attention