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Editing for Film and Video Art
#video #editing
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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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Body and Creative Flow
#performingarts #bodywork
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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
#design #writing #text
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Are words enough? In a world full of fast-paced and artificial imagery, we want to highlight one of our simplest yet most powerful tools: words. They are easy to use, and one word can go... -
Absolute Superstructure – Disentangling a Mass of Knots
#fashion #design #textile
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Absolute Superstructure – Disentangling a Mass of Knots” examines nets as material and metaphor, exploring entanglement, power, and alternative kinships through collaborative textile... -
(Re)Discovering the City
#performance #dance #choreography
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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,... -
Total Silence
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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... -
Critical Seeing of Neo-Orientalism in Contemporary Art
#finearts #artstheory
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Not everything you were told is Art, is Art. Sometimes it’s smart anti-intellectualism disguised as an exciting product. -
Body Sound Collective
#music #performance #body
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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... -
Deep Mapping Berlin
#arttheory #media
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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... -
Too Much is Not Enough: Returning to Slow Art Criticism
#finearts #writing
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A workshop exploring art criticism as a practice of attention and resistance to excess, combining readings, gallery visits, and writing exercises to develop precise, intimate forms of critique... -
River Song - Vocal Landscapes and the Poetics of Water
#sound #interdisciplinary #voice
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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. -
Enough: Learning from Bio-Materials
#design #creativewriting
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What happens when we take a natural residue, like an eggshell, long enough for it to teach us? Experimenting with the making of bioplastics and creative writing we will engage the possibility... -
Drawing as Thinking: A Marathon through Natural History
#finearts #drawing
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During a five-day immersion into the natural history museum, we meet scientists and study various collection objects. With drawing-based research methods, we explore shapes and structures,... -
Stitching Urban Landscape, Reconfiguring our Boundaries from Feminist Margins
#finearts #artisticpractice #body
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This workshop explores how bodies move through Berlin’s layered temporalities, playing the audio-visual archive back through collage and montage —traditionally gendered labor... -
The Slow Line: Art Through Train Travel and Public Transit Spaces
#artisticpractice #publicspace
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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... -
Edible City
#artisticpractice #publicspace
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In the 5-day workshop, we will explore movements and initiatives that engage with food and the urban environment. We will visit Schrebergärten, collective farms, city beehives... -
Large Piece of Lawn – Drawing the World of Plants
#finearts #drawing
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The Participants examine historical plant specimens, explore the botanical garden, study arthistorical illustrations and discover structures under the microscope. They develop the knowledge... -
¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures
#design #printing
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¡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... -
An Introduction to Visual Ethnography: To See and Be Seen, Enough.
#artisticpractice #video
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Workshop on visual ethnography where students learn phone-based observation, filming, sound and editing and produce an ethnographic short film within a group. -
Worlds that Whisper
#design #printing
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Worlds that Whisper is a five day screen printing workshop exploring extraversion, introversion and the visual language of affect through associative drawing experiments, mirrored paper cuts... -
Enough Bad Jokes: Collective Joy as an Act of Resistance
#arttheory #artisticpractice
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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,... -
Water Beyond Resource? Making and Thinking through Water
#design #artisticpractice
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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... -
Bending Wood
#finearts #workshop
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This workshop focuses on the traditional technique of steam-bending wood. In addition to an indepth
craft course, we will spend a day in Grunewald forest visiting a forester, who will tell... -
Enter the Void - On Abstraction and Elliptical Strategies in Painting
#finearts #painting
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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... -
Participatory Storytelling, Radical Imagination and Rhythmic Resistance
#music #sound #artisticpractice
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Workshop on sonic storytelling, radical imagination, and rhythmic practices as tools for collective resistance and creative care. -
Editing for Film and Video Art
#film #video
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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, participants receive quick assignments... -
Tracing (Future) Mobility through Walking and Film
#film #publicspace
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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... -
Berlin Modular Music – Aesthetic Strategies for the Rabbit Hole
#music #electronicmusic
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In extensive hands-on sessions with various modular hardware systems, participants (beginners to advanced) explore the challenges of modular synthesis. Aesthetic and technical aspects... -
“The Voice of Things Becomes the Voice of the Charcoal Speaking”
#finearts #drawing
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Discover artistic charcoal’s production, material agency, and the site-specific, performative potential of drawing on paper and beyond. The course includes a meeting at frontviews/HAUNT and... -
Enough Images? Sexuality, Pornography and Digital Bodies
#arttheory #artisticpractice
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This workshop explores the overflow of sexualized imagery and asks how "Enough" can guide healthy boundaries. Through reflection and artistic practice, participants develop empowered,... -
Do I (only) Need my Body?
#performance #body
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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... -
Performing Marx: Rehearsing Revolution
#performance #publicspace
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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... -
Critical Horizons: The New Dimensions of Art Criticism
#finearts #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
#video #animation
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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,...
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