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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,...
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PERFORMING MARX: REHEARSING REVOLUTIONA 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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“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
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Enough Images? Sexuality, Pornography and Digital BodiesThis 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...
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Editing for Film and Video ArtThis 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...
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Tracing (future) mobility through walking and filmUsing 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’...
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Berlin Modular Music – Aesthetic strategies for the Rabbit HoleIn 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...
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Bending WoodThis 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
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ENTER THE VOID On abstraction and elliptical strategies in paintingThis 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.
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Participatory Storytelling, Radical Imagination and Rhythmic ResistanceWorkshop on sonic storytelling, radical imagination, and rhythmic practices as tools for collective resistance and creative care.
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Water Beyond Resource: Making and Thinking through WaterThis 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...
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Enough Bad Jokes: Collective Joy as an Act of ResistanceThis 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...
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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.
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¡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...
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Large Piece of Lawn – Drawing the World of PlantsThe 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...2026
Edible CityIn 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...2026
The Slow Line: Art Through Train Travel and Public Transit SpacesA 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
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Stitching Urban Landscape, Reconfiguring our Boundaries from Feminist MarginsThis 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...
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River Song - Vocal Landscapes and the Poetics of WaterIn 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.
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Deep Mapping BerlinWe 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...
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Body Sound CollectiveWeaving 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,...
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Critical Seeing of Neo-Orientalism in Contemporary ArtNot everything you were told is Art, is Art. Sometimes it’s smart anti-intellectualism disguised as an exciting product.
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Total Silence2050. 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...
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(Re)Discovering The CityThe 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...
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Writing = DesignAre 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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World Order of Our Hearts#finearts #arttheory
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In the workshop we explore visions of living together: How can we create worlds from the perspective of love, care and interconnectedness in times of antagonism? And how can satire, humor...2025
Upcycling Utopia#fashion #design
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In a both discursive and practical exploration, we aim to create a positive and engaged fashion utopia, using upcycling techniques to decouple the joys of engaging with fashion from the exploitation...2025
Let`s get circular#stagedesign
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The circular economy is a smart approach to extending the life of resources. We are developing artistic models in which an existing material will go through exactly this process! Looking for the...2025
‚Yes, and…‘ Co- Creativity and Applied Improvisation#performance
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We will playfully find out about the rules of improvisation, most importantly the first rule of saying ‚yes, and…‘. To spontaniously overcome the inner urge of judging what we perceive, and...2025
Utopian Institutions - Inventing and Performing Collective Imagination#performance
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How do public (art) institutions function? Which are their internal contradictions? What have been their historical founding ideals? What are they good for today? Mutually we’ll imagine a new (art)...2025
Pendulum - An Interactive Sound Installation#music #performance
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Referring to Steve Reich's feedback idea of Pendulum Music (1968) Pyras and Weise transfer the possibilities of movement and sound to space. We work with the interplay of body and object in...2025
Theatre for Social & Ecological Change#performance
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Discover how the tools of theatre and activism in art can be used to enact change. Together, we will investigate theories of change making through art and begin working on your own activist performance...2025
Visualising Urban Resilience through Film#film #video
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Through flânerie the workshop sensitises participants to utopian cadavers and transformative places in Berlin. Participants will then create short videos that experiment along these interstices...2025
Overwriting Berlin: Utopian Futures#performance #urbanspace
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Explore Berlin’s future and create an immersive audio walk set in 2525. This hands-on workshop blends sci-fi and social theory, reimagining the city through themes like AI, climate...2025
Paradise NOW! On Artificial Wilderness and Botanical Enclosures in Painting#finearts #painting
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This five day intensive workshop explores the possibilities of developing pictorial spaces within the medium of painting by taking Berlins Botanic Garden as a starting point for eutopian and...2025
Waters in Venus ~ Flowers in Mars: Risograph Zine for Uncommon Utopias#printing #design
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Risograph-printed-zine workshop thinking utopia through decolonial, non-anthropocentric positionalities. Using creative exercises walks, readings, videos, visits and sketching participants delve...2025
‘Fake it till you make it!’#fineart #performance
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How to navigate the thin border between truth and fiction in times of AI generated illusions? To find answers, we will create hyper-realistic cake-sculptures, which will be exhibited at...2025
The City never Sleeps#finearts #urbanspace
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Together with the participants, we want to explore the urban space and develop our own tools for the artistic realisation of what we perceive.2025
NO UTOPIA: Artivism and Collective Action Today#artandsociety #urbanspace
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This workshop “NO UTOPIA: Artivism and collective action today” looks for the meanings and territories of current socio political issues, urban struggles with a focus of artistic...2025
Improbable Blossom#printing #design
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Improbable Blossom is a five day screen printing workshop exploring screen printed organic visual language on found materials through drawing experiments, paper cuts and stencil printing.2025
Towards a Future that is Accessible#performance #disabilityarts
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A 3-day workshop, led by Dramaturge/ Research Associate Luke Pell and Producer/ Artistic Associate Nadja Dias (Choreography, Dance & Disability Arts Team at HZT Berlin) aimed at...2025
Utopias on Tracks: Art and Train.#finearts #urbanspace
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Art and Train explores utopia through disused railway spaces like interlocking towers, combining train travel and exhibition-making. Participants transform their journeys into art for U-Bahn...2025
Drawing Plants. A Journey into the World of Plants#finearts #drawing
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The workshop's participants will study historical plant samples, explore the Botanical Garden and discover structures with the microscope. The gathered knowledge they will develop into a graphical...2025
Fragments of the Future#finearts #drawing
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Carbon, the basis of life, becomes our artistic focus. In this workshop we will work with charcoal, explore its artistic and sustainable potential and create utopian visions through drawings,...2025
The Space between Voice and Gesture#music #performance
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In "The Space Between Voice and Gesture" workshop participants will work on extended vocal techniques, sound, listening, graphic scores and performance, fostering new creative perspectives...2025
Drawing (On) Insects#finearts #drawing
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The workshop offers an intensive study of insects through drawing-based artistic research. You will work in Berlin's Natural History Museum, in the Microscopy Center of Humboldt University...2025
Material Fictions: Haptic Narratives of (Un)Spaces#design #textile #fashion
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In our globalized and digitalized lives, we navigate a constant vacillation between the ecstasy of the virtual and the longing for the tangible. We are fascinated by the unreal—hoaxes,...2025
Some Practical City Magic: Physical and Imaginative Practices for a Future City#dance #performance
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The seminar proposes a practical exploration of cities as a physical space for living together using various locations in Berlin as its model. Through bodywork and imaginative practices, participants...2025
Utopian Relationships: Autoethnographies of Naturecultures#arttheory
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The course explores the entanglement of nature and culture through embodied somatic knowledge production. By investigating the concept of naturecultures, participants will engage in multi-sensory,...2025
Aesthetic Transformation Processes: Inspiration across Disciplinary Boundaries#interdisciplinary #artisticpractice
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A focus lies on idea-generating and cross-disciplinary processes and combines it with fieldtrips within Berlin. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How...2025
The (Art-)School of Provisional. Artistic Practice in times of Crises#interdisciplinary #artisticpractice
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"Necessity is the mother of invention", which means art, creativity and catastrophe share the same origin, and improvisation also plays an important role. But what mechanisms...2025
Crafting Beyond Utopia: Bio-Materials and Poetic Futures#design #text
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This course combines hands-on work with bio-materials like bio-plastics, and theoretical discussions on repair, healing and imagination. Participants engage in hands-on projects, challenge Western...2025
Tools for Science Fiction Performance#performance #dance
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We will share tools and methods to unleash utopian potential within the artistic scenarios we are creating. The workshop addresses science-fiction performance practices and related techniques.2024
Bubble, Splash and Drop - Water as an Object of ExplorationThe characteristics of water is the starting point of a performative research practice. We immerse ourselves in the flowing quality of our body movements and explore the sonic properties of water as a material for...
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The City Never SleepsTogether with the participants, we want to explore the urban space and develop our own tools for the artistic realisation of what we perceive.
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Weaving SkinOur skin is the first layer that marks a boundary to our immediate environment. Clothes can be seen as another boundary, as a second skin. In this workshop we will multifacetedly explore the topic of skin from tackling...
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Post-Vandalism GarmentIn this course we search the streets of Berlin for dicarded garments, thrown on the sidewalks and becoming trash the second they hit the floor. We will pick up some pieces, clean and repurpose them in public space...
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(Counter-)mapping through the Ear. Listening Walks, Soundwalks and Audio WalksThe workshop introduces practices of walking and listening for mapping the sonic city. Topics include acoustic ecology, urban sounds, and field recordings, leading to individual artistic projects.
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PlaywritingWho hasn't failed at this one point when they have an idea for a play in their head, the beginning of a drama in the drawer, and the theatre material in their hands? With professional help and input from other participants,...
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The new Berlin Threshold AtlasDuring the workshop we will use a variety of artistic methods and strategies to develop a new edition of the Berlin Threshold Atlas, tracking down, documenting and bringing to life ruptures, transitions and thresholds.
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OVERLAPS - Body and Sound Overlaps in Urban AreasIn urban niches we experience our bodies. How does my body react to space? How does a group of bodies change an urban niche?
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The bodies produce sounds and react to the intrinsic sound of the urban niche. Our bodies...2024
Oral Storytelling - Further StepsOnce we are familiar with oral storytelling and the transmission of inner imagery, it is time to dive deeper into the performative strength of the storyteller. We look in detail at which techniques support us in...
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Artspeak: English as a Foreign Language WorkshopEnglish is the international language of art and can be read and heard in every art context, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to speak. In this workshop, students are invited to improve their language skills...
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Berlin Modular Music InterfacesThe workshop combines artistic-productive and scientific-reflective perspectives on modular synthesizers. During extensive hands-on sessions, individual projects can be developed under guidance. Excursions offer...
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Editing for Film and Video ArtThis 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 quick assignments which...
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Mireficating the Present – Aesthetics & Narratives of PeatlandsMires have been experiencing a wave of attention in recent years. Yet the dark mythologies surrounding them haven’t changed. This workshop explores potential new languages and narratives of a nonbinary landscape...
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BOLLYWOOD - The interface of the Indian collective consciousnessPopular/mainstream films in India have been the vehicle to communicate and comprehend social norms, attitudes and cultural behaviors to the masses. They shape as well as influence the society by playing the important...
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Radiant SignsRadiant Signs is a five day screen printing workshop exploring sign systems, pictograms and visual miscommunication through drawing experiments, paper cuts and modular stencil printing.
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing – InsectsThe workshop offers an intensive study of insects through drawing-based artistic research. You will work in Berlin´s Natural History Museum, at the Microscopy Center of Humboldt
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University and go on a field trip...2024
Writing=DesignWe bridge the borders between creative and applied writing -- and combine them.
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We share methods, tools and techniques. We practice freewriting and professional writing. Participants learn how to condense and transmit...2024
Liminal Berlin: Exploring the Interface of Movement, Writing, and CityscapeWe will explore the liminal spaces of Berlin by traversing the city, conducting movement explorations and detailed observations of the built environment. Participants will read and reflect on the city’s cultural...
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The City-as-Palimpsest: Mixed-Media Techniques of Urban Interface DesignThis course delves into urban spaces as layered texts via field trips, discussions, and mixed-media workshops. Participants are introduced to different practices of interface creation, such as meme-making, critical...
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Visual Ethnography: An Exploration of Urban InterfacesUnlock the art of documenting and presenting diverse social and material relations in Berlin through film. Engage with hands-on filmmaking using minimal equipment. Ideal for creative minds exploring societal phenomena.
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Exploring atopies (placeless): de-generated spaces in BerlinThis workshop explores Atopies, or placeless, abandoned spaces in the urban territory of Berlin. The participants will grow a self-reflective artistic proposal that display the possible interrelations with these...
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Gardens and ExtensionsThis is a course in which we will visit different community gardens within Berlin, and learn about art, ecology and community art practices. Our starting point is the garden I established together with the students...
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Plural Spaces. A Sculptural Matter of TextilityThe familiar and domestic textile surfaces are commonly associated with private interiors and intimate garments. But woven structures and textile ornaments also manifest in public spaces as part of the city's architecture....
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Aesthetic Transformation: Inspiration across Disciplinary Boundaries - Part 1This workshop combines fieldtrips within Berlin with a cross-disciplinary creative practice. A focus lies on idea-generating processes. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively...
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Body as Territory 1In this basic two-days-intensive workshop, in combination with the Talmi-Method®-bodywork and Suzuki-Training, basic concepts of the performing arts such as posture, breathing, standing, walking, sitting and the...
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Biographical-Documentary Working Methods in the Context of ArtThis Workshop takes the participants' narratives as the starting point for an artistic process. The focus is on a personal, practice-oriented research to put the biographical material in a socio-political context...
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all that nothing causing all that thingAfter an introduction of musical composition systems and production techniques we will investigate how these can be reformulated as processes and tools for generative work in a variety of creative fields. no musical...
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