Biography
Biographical Sketch
Horst Kornberger is a poet, writer, interdisciplinary artist, lecturer and researcher into the field of imagination and creativity. Born in Austria in 1959 he began his career as a visual artist. He then studied Speech and Drama in England, Goethean Studies in the United States and Waldorf Education in Australia. He has taught Speech and Drama, Goethean Studies, Anthroposophy and Epistemology in the US and Australia.
Horst is the director and founder of the School of Integral Art where he pioneers creative, biographical and story writing. He has created an online course ‘Working the Word – creative writing in process,’ (now ‘The Writer’s Passage’) and his book, ‘The Power of Stories,’ has recently been published by Floris Books, UK. He lectures nationwide on themes of early childhood, education, creativity, meditative enquiry and the use of the imagination as a healing and community building tool.
Horst’s artistic focus is the creation of ‘Icons of the Environmental Age.’ Through this approach Horst is attempting to extend the parameters of art by using interdisciplinary approaches combining and working in a large variety of media: His work in the field of environmental art has resulted in the installation of a compost heap in the Fremantle Art Centre (‘Compost - the heap between ecology and art’) and in the ‘Viridian Project,’ an attempt to recover degraded land in the West Australian wheat-belt using biodynamic preparations.
Horst has explored the theme of time through his installation ‘Honeyclock’, coloured light in ‘Colourscape’ and the combination of poetry, image and computer technology in ‘Buddha in Honey,’(commended entry in the Newcastle New Media Poetry Prize). More recent works have explored the interface between installation and film in ‘Downpour’ and communal imagination and performance in ‘Bardo of the West’ (work in progress). In addition to this he works as a story-teller, performer and director involved in developing acting as a community building tool.
As part of his extended artwork Horst has conducted research in geometry and three of his discoveries have been published in the ‘Journal for Mathematics and Physics’ at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. (see Curriculum Vitae)
Horst is a poet whose work has received numerous commendations and prizes in Australian competitions (see Curriculum Vitae). He sees his poetry as central to his ‘Icons of the Environmental Age.’
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