Creative Position

Personality manifests itself anew again and again in the flow of individual existence. Seeing it in flux frees creative action from individual characteristics such as age, body, or origin. Olaf Langmack advocates the Right to a Free Identity. Until 2023 his creative interest was in himself.

His topic history

My topic from 2003 until 2014 was my personal history and from 2015 until 2023 my personality. This eventually had practical and, accordingly, economic consequences. During this time I reduced my social interactions as much as possible, in the beginning by choice and with the COVID-19 lockdowns in Germany by force. I also completely refrained from web work.

His self-concept

In everyday life, it is self-evident that artists cannot label their work as artworks, for a lack of distance. In the case of personality as work, it would be ridiculous at best^[4] to call oneself an artist of oneself. One can consider oneself a work – not an artwork.

His method

To avoid my blind spot I use my own methods. To develop them, it helped that I studied computer science, furthered my self-education in philosophy, literature and photography, and treated myself three very different psychological treatments.

Personality v. Sociality

Olaf Langmack understands personal identity (short: personality) as the tension between a person's self-image and the image others have of him or her. He defines social identity (short: sociality) as how one's personality is rescinds in everyday life. An example of social identity is what is written about a person in their passport. His slogan of the Right to a Free Identity interprets the relationship between personality and sociality.