Engagement Minifesto  

deutsche Version /// versión española

We understand mediation as an undisciplined educational practice that produces knowledge and that creates togetherness through social action and by acting in between the fields of social work, art, and care work.

We describe our mediation and art practice as socially and politically motivated. That means for us to encourage people through creative processes to take a position and to relate to their own environment. It should enable them to appropriate spaces of art and culture, to develop critical perspectives towards capitalism and perception of normativity. Thereby our practice focuses on social action, togetherness, and collective work.

Our practice is collaborative and process oriented. Relation-work is therefor central to us. It requires a respectful and appreciative approach towards different experiences and living conditions of the people we are working with.
In our perspective the confrontation and acknowledgement of differences is central to create resistance and social change.

Social togetherness is affective, spontaneous, chaotic and
therefore not schedulable.  According to this, we explore a practice that gives space to the unpredictable that gives importance to the unadjusted, the dysfunctional, the funny, the joyful and the cheeky, that deals with the sensitive, the cautious, the doubtful and that thus aims the unlearning.

We work with and not for people. In our projects we usually find ourselves in the role of "social-aesthetic directors" who on the one hand enable creative spaces and on the other hand act as creators themselves.

In the play with creative means
social practice itself becomes an artistic form.
It leads to the desire to appropriate forms of expression and thereby encourages to ask fearless questions or to express ideas against a preconceived norm.

Within these processes magical situations arise that are aesthetically, socially, and politically astonishing - Doing Social Magic!

rampe:action with Christian Limber,
Christian Diaz Orejarena, Miriam Trostorf, Lara Dade  January 2022