++++ Dagmar Demming, born 1951, was master class student at the Hochschule der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin from 1983 to 89; from 1994 to 97 she taught at the Art Center College of Design, Fine Arts Department, Pasadena, California. 1998 Dagmar Demming wa appointed Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway.

++++ ‘MULTIPLE PERSONALITY’- A PLEASURE WITHOUT GUILT FEELINGS / I teach at an art academy as an artist and since 2000, as director, I am responsible for the curriculum. I will present my ideas about the institution of the art academy, the change in the production of knowledge and the work of artists from these three perspectives. Concepts like ‘freedom’ as a fog trap, ‘fuzzy logic’; the artist will be contemplated as doctor and the doctor as artist. Institutional frustration will be replaced by institutional enthusiasm and vice versa. The fun will be separated from the negative Protestant connotations of the fun society and conceived of as dynamizing pleasure, jobs as playing fields and misunderstandings as an opportunity. Sound bytes and slides from my artistic production will confuse the stringent path of argumentation.