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Editing for Film and Video Art
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This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, the participants receive...
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Critical Horizons: The New Dimensions of Art Criticism
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Through seminars with critics, gallery visits, and writing exercises, this course considers the forces hanging the field of art criticism: increasingly diverse perspectives, a speculative... -
Animation for the iPad
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The only limit in animation is your imagination, but production can be very labor-intensive. In this workshop, we will learn how apps make stop-motion and hand-drawn animation more accessible,... -
Body and Creative Flow
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We work out how breathing, touch and movement lessons can lead to a lasting positive change in body and mind in a self-determined way at eye level. Individual work on one's own posture,... -
Writing = Design
Are words enough? In a world full of artificial imagery, we want to highlight one of our simplest yet most powerful tools: words. Learn about writing for and about yourself, and about using text as a design tool....
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(Re)Discovering The City
The 5-day intensive workshop looks at how we can both be inspired by and change our relationship to the city. We will examine artistic strategies like Psychogeography, Situationism, algorithmic walking, GPS, sited...
Read more Total Silence
2050. Digital world. AI dominates our lives. A sudden power outage: No internet anymore, complete darkness at night. A major task is to create a paper-based communication network for information exchange by rediscovering...
Read more Critical Seeing of Neo-Orientalism in Contemporary Art
Not everything you were told is Art, is Art. Sometimes it’s smart anti-intellectualism disguised as an exciting product.
Read more Body Sound Collective
Weaving body sound, voice, and movement into instant composition, spontaneous music and dance emerge as one shared form. In a group where each performer is already enough, the collective amplifies presence, resonance,...
Read more Deep Mapping Berlin
We will consciously counteract the overwhelming amount of on and off screen information we are daily exposed to. We apply ‘deep mapping’ as method to dive into Berlin's urban space to explore it from multiple...
Read more River Song - Vocal Landscapes and the Poetics of Water
In the "River Song" interdisciplinary workshop, participants explore vocal performance practices and listening, blending human and non-human voices inspired by the sound of the river.
Read more Stitching Urban Landscape, Reconfiguring our Boundaries from Feminist Margins
This workshop explores how bodies move through Berlin’s layered temporalities, playing the audio-visual archive back through collage and montage —traditionally gendered labor — to reconfigure our personal...
Read more The Slow Line: Art Through Train Travel and Public Transit Spaces
A site-based class turning trains, stations, and movement into artistic material. Through fieldwork, theory, and public encounters, participants create works for a final exhibition at railway stations
Read more Edible City
In the 5-day workshop, we will explore movements and initiatives that engage with food and
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the urban environment. We will visit Schrebergärten, collective farms, city beehives and
artistic food collectives in... Large Piece of Lawn – Drawing the World of Plants
The Participants examine historical plant specimens, explore the botanical garden, study arthistorical illustrations and discover structures under the microscope. They develop the
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knowledge gathered into a graphic... ¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures
¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures questions how much is enough and also how to position ourselves in this excess. Through a collective riso printed A3 poster bundle we will amplify diverse interpretations...
Read more An Introduction to Visual Ethnography: To See and Be Seen, Enough.
Workshop on visual ethnography where students learn phone-based observation, filming, sound and editing and produce an ethnographic short film within a group.
Read more Enough Bad Jokes: Collective Joy as an Act of Resistance
This workshop explores art as a social practice and tool for micro-resistance. We will look at how jokes, absurdity, and collective imagination can generate clarity and connection, even in oppressive or overwhelming...
Read more Water Beyond Resource: Making and Thinking through Water
This course examines water in its relational, social, and ecological dimensions. Through field trips, artistic practice, readings and critical reflection, we explore water beyond a mere resource and follow its material...
Read more Bending Wood
This workshop focuses on the traditional technique of steam-bending wood. In addition to an indepth
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craft course, we will spend a day in Grunewald forest visiting a forester, who will tell us
about the ecological... ENTER THE VOID On abstraction and elliptical strategies in painting
This practical one week seminar focuses on the individual artistic exploration of abstraction processes within painting, the development of unique pictorial ideas and a vivid dialogue among the participants.
Read more Participatory Storytelling, Radical Imagination and Rhythmic Resistance
Workshop on sonic storytelling, radical imagination, and rhythmic practices as tools for collective resistance and creative care.
Read more Editing for Film and Video Art
This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, participants receive quick assignments which...
Read more Tracing (future) mobility through walking and film
Using flânerie and filmmaking the workshop delves into questions surrounding traffic, mobility, city-making, co-habitation and the use of public space in Berlin, from construction projects to so-called ‘culture-wars’...
Read more Berlin Modular Music – Aesthetic strategies for the Rabbit Hole
In extensive hands-on sessions with various modular hardware systems, participants (beginners to advanced) explore the challenges of modular synthesis. Aesthetic and technical aspects are also discussed in depth...
Read more “The voice of things becomes the voice of the charcoal speaking”
Discover artistic charcoal’s production, material agency, and the site-specific,
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performative potential of drawing on paper and beyond. The course
includes a meeting at frontviews/HAUNT and Florian Wüst’s... Enough Images? Sexuality, Pornography and Digital Bodies
This workshop explores the overflow of sexualized imagery and asks how "Enough" can guide healthy boundaries. Through reflection and artistic practice, participants develop empowered, self-determined strategies...
Read more Do I (only) need my body?
In this course you explore how the body’s innate knowledge emerges when unnecessary tension, habits, and imitation fall away. Through mindful movement and embodied awareness, you uncover presence, authenticity,...
Read more PERFORMING MARX: REHEARSING REVOLUTION
A rehearsal for revolution. This workshop turns Marx’s ideas into movement. Through indoor and public-space exercises, students explore how social and economic forces are written in our bodies - a physical inquiry...
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