Now let's all take a deep breath and shout together

A follow-up conversation between Bjørn Melhus, Angela Anderson, Jan Peters and Johanna Schaffer, August 29, 2025.

The following conversation was conducted by Bjørn Melhus, Angela Anderson, Jan Peters and Johanna Schaffer on August 29, 2025, transcribed and edited by Johanna Schaffer. The starting point was Bjørn Melhus' opening speech for the Kunsthochschulrundgang 2025, which is published on the Monopol website. However, performative-aesthetic decisions are barely visible in the text, and we wanted to talk about these.

Bjørn Melhus has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the Visual Arts program since 2003.
Angela Anderson has been an artistic assistant at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the Virtual Realities class of the Visual Arts program since 2019.
Jan Peters has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel since 2012, teaching film and moving image.
Johanna Schaffer has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel since 2012, where she teaches together with Miriam Schickler Theory and Practice of Visual Communication.

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Now let's all take a deep breath and shout together