about week 45, LBD 360:

In Vienna the "semester-final-presentations" are always a little bit stressfull. Everybody has to evidence the own work in front of 8 - 10 teachters, and the students, which than gave her "proffessional" opinion to the artwork of the semester. This "exam-situations" are always very stressed and nerve-racking.
The "exam-situation" here at HDK on Wednesday and Thursday in the course of the exhibition, was much more enjoyable, than the presentations that I used to do normaly. For me it was not like an exam, but rather like a nice relax conversation between us students and teachers. Not the opinion of the professors were most important, but the talk and the dicussion about the work with the other students. So I got the possibility to hear a lot of impressions and criticism about my work, which showed me how other people feel about them. I sometimes think, that people don't understand what I want to say with my projects, but that discussion showed me, that (in this case) everybody understood what I was intended to say. So I think, every discussion during the university time should end up like this.
Of course, I was really nervous before my presentation, like I am always when I have to talk infront of people or when I have to show at someone my own work. But that nervousness has subsided after the first words I talked to my classmates and teachers. I can say, that the whole atmosphere was really comfortable, so everybody were able to make a good presentation.
The exercise to look closer at someones work, was also a good advice to participate to the Exibition in a other way. I had the chance to go very into the work of someone else, and to understand his/her process. Especially by the accurate description of the whole process on every blog, it was easy to follow everybodys thoughts and work-steps. So every artwork was than after the first real view much easyer comprehensible and understandable for me.
What I would have preferred is, that beside the artwork would have been some description/summary, so every visitor is able to follow and easier to understand even if they are not in this seminar.
Maybe for the next time.