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Bazon Brock is professor emeritus of Aesthetics and Cultural Education at the University of
Wuppertal, Germany. He has held additional chairs at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts
(1965-1976) and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (1977-1980). In 1992 he was awarded an
honorary doctorate at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, Zurich) and a second one
in 2012 at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He has developed the method of “Action
Teaching”, in which the lecture hall becomes a place for staging oneself and others. From
1968 until 1992 he launched the documenta-schools for visitors and in 2009 he performed a
school for visitors for the exhibition “60 Jahre. 60 Werke“ (60 Years. 60 Works) at the Martin-
Gropius building, Berlin. For a period of eleven years he presented the show “Bilderstreit —
Kunst im Gespräch” (debating pictures ñ conversations about art) on the 3sat TV channel.
He has participated in over 2500 exhibitions and other events, such as for example, Wa(h)
re Kunst. Der Museumsshop als Wunderkammer (True/tradable art. The museum shop as a
chamber of wonders, since 1994 in 18 cities); Lustmarsch durchs Theoriegelände (a cheerful
march through theoretical territory, 2006, in eleven museums); Tag der Weltzivilisierung
(world civilization day, 24/11/2007 & 2008), and has collaborated on numerous occasions with
Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Wolf Vostell. From 2010 until
2013 he has established courses for diplomas as citizens, recipients, consumers, donors and
selectors at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (Rector: Peter Sloterdijk).
Institutes: Labor für Universalpoesie und Prognostik (universal poetry and prognosis lab), Büro
für Evidenzkritik (office of evidential criticism), Institut für theoretische Kunst (faculty of theoretical
art), Institut für Rumorologie / Gerüchteverbreitung (faculty of rumourology / spreading
of rumours).
His most recent publication is Lustmarsch durchs Theoriegelände (a cheerful march through
theoretical territory, book & DVD, 2008). |
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