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A

B

C

  • calculability | intelligent sounding word for predictability
  • capitalist value creation | G-W…W’-G’
  • çatı çıtası | see Dachlatte
  • „Captain Appstore“ | song from „unterkomplex“)
  • chaos | without vacuum
  • Cloud Chamber | artistic concept by Freeters; particle detector; artist group (NL)
  • coincidence | identifiable by perception
  • collect | take everything that goes
  • collective | Freeters
  • collective ornament | see unbeadable space
  • confusion maker | the benefactor of confusion
  • connector / Verbinder |  thing that connects without glue, Love
  • contemporary neither yesterday nor tomorrow, consequently now
  • create | forbidden word but in the best sense it means head up, hand goes
  • creativity | forbidden word
  • creative Jamsession | a Paradoxon
  • crisis | the all-embracing surprise
  • crisis tendencies / Krisentendenzen | tending to encompass surprise
  • cube | a platonic body with 4 equal faces
  • culture | assimilated art, see yoghurt
  • cultural industrial | Netflix n’ Chill
  • curd | plural of milk

D

  • Dachlatte / roof batten | turkish: çatı çıtası, claim when something doesn’t work
  • decision maker | makes decisions, whether right or wrong
  • Denkstrategie | strategical brainwork
  • Denkraum | phsycal: brain, abstract: art
  • Detecon | Management and technology consulting company
  • „DieDie“ | Song from „unterkomplex“, the others
  • difference | the gap between art and culture
  • digital discovery | the attempt to rediscover digital space as a real existing space for action
  • disposable | interchangeable
  • dissonance | discord between resonance and renaissance, see resonace
  • distraction | mental salt in the sauce of consciousness
  • „Double Fucker Roller Skater“ | Song from „unterkomplex“
  • Dreibeiner / three-legged | thing with three legs
  • „Du bisset“ | simply the best

E

  • ecosystem scouting | an inventory of the immediate environment of organizational units
  • egalitarianism | thesis of the fundamental equality of perso
  • Einbeiner / one-legged | thing with one leg
  • „El Segundissimo“ | Exhibition of Freeters in 2018 at ESMoA
  • emotional evaluation | new documentation and evaluation formats, elude conventional procedures or provide new insights
  • encounters | opposite so close that it touches
  • ephemeral | volatile, see Acetone
  • error culture | cultivation of ‚shit happens‘
  • ESMoA | El Segundo Museum of Art
  • essential | see need
  • explorer | one of the four aesthetic stereotypes of Freeters
  • experiment | it requires courage, curiosity, observation, conclusion, repetition, patience, love
  • expression | a cafè please [sic!]
  • E105 | a company that brings the goal of culture of innovation closer to reality

F

G

  • gardener | one of the four aesthetic stereotypes of Freeters
  • genaugenau | absolutely aggree
  • globalisation | growing together and unifying
  • glossary | utmost effort of the term
  • grabegabel | digging fork and problem solver for the gardener
  • growth paradigm | higher, faster, further; see paradigm
  • guerilla Installation | direct integration of individual productions into the reality of life and connection of spontaneous and planned elements

H

  • HaHahAhAhAhHA! | answer to all questions         
  • Handlungsstrategie | ACTION STRATEGY !
  • Halle / hall | largest area and playground @ Magic Ground
  • Help! | song of the Beatles and book of the Freeters
  • Herdenästehtisierung | herd aestheticization
  • heroic story | egg – larva – cocoon – butterfly
  • humor | see HaHahAhAHAHA!

I

  • identify | this there!
  • identity – not identity | Hegels core
  • improvising | provoke unintended coincidences
  • indistinguishability | indistinguishability concernig the reception
  • ingenious genius | see Mozart or van gogh’s ear
  • integration DNA |
  • Inspiration Trigger Tool | the tool leads to serious and lasting insights and inspirations
  • irritation | inspiring state of mind
  • isolation | atomic state without mass

J

  • JaJa | appreciative resignation
  • job shadowing | accompanying expedition of employees. uncover the existing operational reality; experience the subjective view of used cases / workflows beyond mission statements

K

L

  • leisure | not sleep, not work; see Muße
  • loss of relevance |  non mi tangere
  • love | LIEBE
  • Luftmutter | nut screw made of air
  • „Luftschlößer müssen verdichtet werden!“ | “Castles in the air must be compressed !“
  • luxury | pleisure

M

  • madness | dubious state of mind, district of Cologne
  • Marvin | a friend whose name you constantly forget
  • Magic Ground | best place to be
  • matching | for example, pot and lid
  • mass | a bunch of atoms, without individuality
  • mass phenomenon it seems that the whole is no more than the sum of its parts     
  • mass society | society of atoms
  • mass particle | see atom
  • „Meanwhile“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters
  • meeting Point for example in Italy the ‚Piazza‘ or a the bar
  • Mett-Eagle | drumer from „unterkomplex
  • magician | one of the four aesthetic stereotypes of Freeters
  • mind mapping | creation of a vision landscape; through mental work to sausage, inside-out processing
  • Mini Cloudchamber | present for „Ruangrupa“ shipped to Indonesia
  • modeling | creation of a spatial sensory basis for the decision of further process steps
  • monotony | one colour tone
  • mutation | increase in diversity through spontaneous change
  • Muße | not to be confused with mousse, see curd
  • mystery shopping | experience journey; takes on a customer perspective that is as unbiased as possible

N

  • Necessity | indispensable 
  • need | absolutely necessary
  • „Nikolatte“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters

O

  • „OB DU“ | question of questions / Song from „unterkomplex“
  • occupation | hijacked by action
  • OPEN | annual art event at Magic Ground
  • ORANGE COUNCIL | communication office that accompanies change processes

P

  • Pallettenfett | probably a palette made of fat
  • panoramic thinker | thinking with the knee, thinking with Google Earth in your head
  • paradigm | modus operandi
  • participation | just make it together
  • pattern | repetitio sine qua non
  • Perlensommer / „Pearl Summer“ | period between May and September 2021
  • Perl’nsteinzimmer | another term for the unbeadable space, neologism from the word ‚Bernsteinzimmer’ / Amber Room
  • Piff Paff | music style of the band unterkomplex; onomatopoeic for a rifle or pistol shot
  • Pille Palle | something insignificant, trivial
  • pixel | elementary particles
  • player | one of the four aesthetic stereotypes of Freeters
  • positive documentation | The media is the massage
  • power of pictures | declination of pictorial worlds / overall visual experiences beyond the fixed and moving image
  • practice | opposite of theory
  • precise | specify what is already clear
  • Primärreiz | pain or primary stimulus
  • process | everything that happens
  • ProfDrFreeters | multiple person
  • projection figures | in projection, the figure is the canvas of hope
  • propeller | room in room concept, a dancing dervish
  • prototype | Almost finished and yet completed

Q

R

S

  • safety officer | guinea pig made of styrofoam and fauxfur, also a Person without ability and too much power
  • Salon | irregular meeting at the Magic Ground with friends, unknowns and business partners, garnished with good food and conversation
  • salvation | hope in art             
  • Schnappel | thing that holds everything together, problem solver
  • see what’s coming | Vision
  • self-realisation | absence of art
  • serious Play | contradictory behavior
  • Sissi Top | frontal lobes | from „unterkomplex“
  • sleep | not work, not leisure
  • „Smooth“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters
  • social sculpture | You will meet him at the stations
  • society | to blame for everything
  • soziales Plastik | ’social plastik’; neologism of ‘social sculpture’ (Beuys)
  • spaces are Interfaces | concretising experience; space is not only purely physical, rather it contains a psychological dimension
  • speed curation | rapid merging of the most diverse partial productions into a meaningful whole
  • spötziell | particularly aestheticized
  • „Stardust“ | exhibition of Freeters in 2019 at ESMoA
  • state of exception | often occurs in appearance with crisis
  • state of mind | constitution of thinking
  • stock | Freeters treasure mine
  • story Board |
  • story Building | attempt of a first fiction, which is suitable both as a coherent narration to be the starting point of a progressive development but also as “breadcrumbs” to create crystallization points for a game that is constantly being recreated
  • strategy | the belief in being able to plan goal-oriented and in advance
  • Superheroes | in the real sense of the word artists
  • sustainibility rules | the Gestalt transformation of objects into new functionalities in order to support the cyclical consideration of life realities and reflects | today’s productions
  • S.Y.L.A | Support Your Local Art
  • S.Y.L.A.H.Q / S.Y.L.A.NTENHEIM | art gallery that allows unconditional exhibitions to everyone; german neologism of the word ‚Asylantenheim’ (asylum seekers’ home) english: SupportYour Local Art Head Quarter
  • S.Y.L.A.PPLICATION | application form of S.Y.L.A.H.Q.

T

  • team building | social sculpture
  • theory | opposite of practice
  • thinking | brainwork
  • „Touché“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters
  • Transformer | rebirth
  • treasure hunt | a search in the positive for „emotional reverses“ that can be liftedand, in the negative for „black holes“ that suck energy and should be trasformed
  • tristesse | absence of surprise
  • trivial chatter | as the saying goes
  • true Artis / „rischtije Künstler“ | person who carves beautiful writing in tombstones

U

V

  • vaccum | without chaos
  • value | irregular unit of measurement, dispensable
  • vanishing point: boredom | the exact point where abundance becomes superfluity
  • Verbinder / connector | thing that connects without glue, Love
  • Vielecker | thing with many corners, commonly called polygon
  • Vierbeiner / four-legged | thing with four legs
  • vision | latin visio for ‚sight, appearance‘
  • vision operator | probably an artist or another kind of freak

W

  • Wandaktivierung / „to activite a wall“ | epic wall
  • Winkelding | inspirational tool for throwing, playpolon
  • words move mountains clarification of the power of words beyond the supposedly neutral-objective use of words
  • work | not sleep, not leisure
  • Wunderkammer | see Cloudchamber
  • Würfelding | inspiration throwing tool

X

  • X ist mit ohne scharf | X is sharp with without

Y

Z

  • Z | not russian at all
  • „Zamma Zumma“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters
  • Zufallsverteidiger / random defender | lucky defender, see coincidence
  • Zweibeiner | thing with two legs

5

  • „5G war gestern“ | filmclip by FEEDBACKFILMS & Freeters
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