Photo · Film · Voice-over
Multilingual Art Education | 2025/26

This multilingual Art module explored the relationship between photographic storytelling, voice-over, and linguistic choice. Students developed individual photo-film sequences in which spoken language could become part of the artistic work, with languages from their own repertoires explicitly available but never prescribed.

The project focused on a central question in multilingual Art education: What happens when students are given genuine linguistic choice within an artistic task? Rather than treating multilingualism as an additional layer of translation, language was approached as one possible resource for constructing atmosphere, perspective, narrative, and meaning.

The module became particularly revealing when compared with an earlier multilingual Architecture project: under seemingly similar conditions of linguistic openness, students made markedly different choices about whether and how to use their heritage languages. This contrast shifted the focus from the mere availability of multilingual resources towards the conditions under which students actually make use of them.

The project and its emerging questions formed the basis of my contribution Rumänisch sichtbar machen, ohne es zu erzwingen: Foto-Film-Voice-over als mehrsprachigkeitsorientiertes Aufgabenformat im Kunstunterricht, presented at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in June 2026.