LPU’s Fine Arts Department organises workshop by renowned German artist

Educational Tie-ups & Skill Development Cell of the LPU - Lovely Professional University recently organised a six-day workshop at its Fine Arts Department that concluded on October 12. Titled Radical Bodies slipping into Beyond, the workshop of headed by renowned German artist Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith. The student were taught pure art in action. Glausnitzer-Smith has earlier organised similar workshops in London, China, Athens, Berlin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen and more places.

Explaining about ‘Live Performance’, the German artist holds that the performance art is the connection between body and movement. The live performance is like breathing life into objects and movements. For better action in performances, a performer should relieve body through different actions of crying, laughing, making anger etc. Then, he/she should learn to collect the energy of such actions for the best performance ahead.

Graduated from Royal College of Art in London, Glausnitzer-Smith organises public events with ‘Live Performances’, actions, exhibitions and develops international event ‘transit-station’ with Fine Arts students in different countries. Places for Glausnitzer-Smith’s work concentrate in virtual spaces, temporary floors, site-specific places, public, festivals, events, open studio, appointed situations and invented public projects. She examines several aspects of collecting objects, the re-collection of past ideas and images, voice and autobiography by means of ‘performance for the camera.’ LPU students are learning a lot from this innovative workshop.

Note : This article has been published on the basis of a press communication by the college.