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.
Read more"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 are at play? How can we turn them into...
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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...
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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,...
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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 can we creatively...
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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...
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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, simulations,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Artistic and scientific perspectives on modular synthesizers are combined in this workshop. The focus is not only on the aesthetic potential of using the devices, but also on the social dimensions...
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This workshop is designed for anyone interested in combining photography with themes of memory, identity, history, and time. A variety of assignments will guide you in discovering and telling...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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This workshop invites participants to explore the medium of drawing to its boundaries. It encourages you to use drawing as a starting point to discover urban voids and transform them into projection...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In the Fast Forward 2050 seminar, we will invent and test future scenarios together. These scenarios are based on collective simulation games that are tested performatively and further developed...