Kien Hoang
Moritz Broszat
Kien:
"I think there isn't much for me to say about the general definition or the price to pay for freedom itself. Personally, freedom has always been an illusory concept to me. When I was a child, I believed freedom to be something more tangible and solid, like the ability to do whatever i want. Now, when I'm an adult, I realized freedom isn't that simple. Having the freedom to do things aren't as important to me anymore. Instead, I feel trapped by the endless array of future goals and societal pressure pushed onto me. Even if I can satisfy these stressful needs in my life, I still end up being haunted by my own past, by mistakes and wrongdoings I have done that are unfixable. Freedom as an adult now means freedom from my thoughts and guilt, and the ability to achieve self-actualization without inflicting on others' freedom. The gradual shift of my concept and idea of freedom from something physical to something more spiritual made me realize that the chase for freedom itself is also confining, and that we can only truly be free when we have inner peace."
"I think there isn't much for me to say about the general definition or the price to pay for freedom itself. Personally, freedom has always been an illusory concept to me. When I was a child, I believed freedom to be something more tangible and solid, like the ability to do whatever i want. Now, when I'm an adult, I realized freedom isn't that simple. Having the freedom to do things aren't as important to me anymore. Instead, I feel trapped by the endless array of future goals and societal pressure pushed onto me. Even if I can satisfy these stressful needs in my life, I still end up being haunted by my own past, by mistakes and wrongdoings I have done that are unfixable. Freedom as an adult now means freedom from my thoughts and guilt, and the ability to achieve self-actualization without inflicting on others' freedom. The gradual shift of my concept and idea of freedom from something physical to something more spiritual made me realize that the chase for freedom itself is also confining, and that we can only truly be free when we have inner peace."
Moritz:
"Because it seems omnipresent, a simple thought on moral responsibility and the contemporary freedom debate here: Our own freedom is linked to the freedom of others. In favor of the striving for freedom, it would be to put one's own freedom aside in favor of the freedom of others, in order to ensure that the most basic freedom to life is preserved. But I don't want to make that a topic, so I am trying to define this weeks topic on a personal view.
To me, freedom is challenge on my mind. Freedom means to break free from convention so to escape structure. The pursuit of having a driving force initiated by harmony and intuition (based on the liberal concept as the key to reveal aspects of our unconcious self?).
I am constantly reffering to freedom while questionning how to translate the liberal thought in action or the photographic (visual artsistic) frame. Whereby, I do not only consider freedom in the artistic context but also position it on a high state as an relevant trivial value. So in the widest context, such as input and handling of taste or entertainment for instance, seems insignificant, however, tends to sets itself apart from any structure and affects everyone's individual freedoms. Of course, there is an collective understanding in society that affects our perception but just the awareness of this mindsetting leads me already to the research of the pure self-determined freedom. Ignorance partially directs to that essence but also acts on limitation.
Maybe pure Freedom belongs to the things that I dont need because its not applicable, but I like the thought on it and the impulse of fullfiling this potential.
Within the framework of visual arts, I am concerned with expression that, shaped by style, represents an understanding or a position. In other words, a platform that communicates on a meta-level that, due to its lack of absoluteness, remains free depending on the choice of methodological perspective.
As an ongoing discourse, freedom is the fundament as it creates and innovates artsitic potential. I set to define my expression within Visual Arts, inspired by the avantgardist that stands out from existing conditions or prevailing aesthetic norms. With the constant danger of bowing to expectations and the goal of not just initiating alternative fashions in the short term, but of more fundamental and longer-term effects."
"Because it seems omnipresent, a simple thought on moral responsibility and the contemporary freedom debate here: Our own freedom is linked to the freedom of others. In favor of the striving for freedom, it would be to put one's own freedom aside in favor of the freedom of others, in order to ensure that the most basic freedom to life is preserved. But I don't want to make that a topic, so I am trying to define this weeks topic on a personal view.
To me, freedom is challenge on my mind. Freedom means to break free from convention so to escape structure. The pursuit of having a driving force initiated by harmony and intuition (based on the liberal concept as the key to reveal aspects of our unconcious self?).
I am constantly reffering to freedom while questionning how to translate the liberal thought in action or the photographic (visual artsistic) frame. Whereby, I do not only consider freedom in the artistic context but also position it on a high state as an relevant trivial value. So in the widest context, such as input and handling of taste or entertainment for instance, seems insignificant, however, tends to sets itself apart from any structure and affects everyone's individual freedoms. Of course, there is an collective understanding in society that affects our perception but just the awareness of this mindsetting leads me already to the research of the pure self-determined freedom. Ignorance partially directs to that essence but also acts on limitation.
Maybe pure Freedom belongs to the things that I dont need because its not applicable, but I like the thought on it and the impulse of fullfiling this potential.
Within the framework of visual arts, I am concerned with expression that, shaped by style, represents an understanding or a position. In other words, a platform that communicates on a meta-level that, due to its lack of absoluteness, remains free depending on the choice of methodological perspective.
As an ongoing discourse, freedom is the fundament as it creates and innovates artsitic potential. I set to define my expression within Visual Arts, inspired by the avantgardist that stands out from existing conditions or prevailing aesthetic norms. With the constant danger of bowing to expectations and the goal of not just initiating alternative fashions in the short term, but of more fundamental and longer-term effects."