Exhibition at

ChiangMai UniversityArt Centre 1.-7.Dec. 2011

Playing Arts connects art and life through the play.

Playing Arts is a network arisen 15 years ago in Germany which animates people to perform their own projects and actions. Stimulated by art impulses one’s own creative action is induced.

 After 4 successful workshops in Bangkok and Chiangmai the following book was made:
Playing Arts in a Thai way, full of examples how Playing Arts has been adapted in Thailand.

The exhibition shows pictures and traces from the workshops.

- Transforming objects shows the transformation of everyday-life objects. Released from their earmarking unimagined possibilities can arise.

- Inspiration by an artworkshows how artworks can animate to creative actions, if one is courageous enough to play the game.

- Making an own playing arts projectshows examples how passer-by get involved in creative projects.

 clips of German Playing Arts projects made this exhibition an “encounter of the cultures”.

 Christoph Riemer
has composed six books about the topics art, education and performance. His artistic focus lies in the Playing-Arts movement, that was founded by himself. His core competence comprises the fields photography, video, performance and transmedial actions as well as the organisation and realisation of workshops, symposia and festivals.
He lives in Hamburg.