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Aesthetic Transformation Processes - Part I
This workshop combines fieldtrips within Berlin with a cross-disciplinary creative practice. The focus lies on idea-generating processes. How does inspiration come about? How do we find ideas? How can we creatively...
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Aesthetic Transformation Processes - Part II
This advanced workshop operates as a continuation of the introductory workshop on Aesthetic Transformations and provides participants with more studio time and the opportunity of in-depth inquiry into their own...
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Poshak: Understanding Diversity through "Bollywood" costumes
The word diversity is almost a synonym to India. It has existed in every aspect of the Indian aesthetics. During this 7-day-workshop we will have a deep look into the film production of india and focus on the very...
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Oral Storytelling - An Introduction Part 1
We look into the basic steps of oral storytelling and explore how a written story or a story from memory finds its own voice. The work enhances communication and presentational skills, as well as developing imagination...
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Oral Storytelling - An Introduction Part 2
Once 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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Visual Ethnography: A Mode of Ethnographic Translation
Would you like to learn more about filmmaking, ethnography, and their intersections? In this workshop, we will provide you with the theoretical framework and practical skillset to produce your first visual ethnographic...
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The Berlin Flâneur: Translating Movement into Writing
Flaneurs, or ‘city-walkers’, immerse themselves in the personalities, built environment, and atmospheres of the street. This interdisciplinary workshop innovatively combines movement experimentation in the German...
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Floating Texts: Unlearning to Write
For a lot of artists writing is a central practice to generate and process ideas or to create text-based work itself. Yet it is less discussed, taught, and highlighted as an artistic practice as such. Also, writing...
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Collisions, Contagions, Passages: Art and the Arts
Is there a unity of the arts? What does it mean to speak of art in general, or to insist on the specificity of a medium? We will examine how the arts relate to one another, problematize the “post-media” abstraction...
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing - Plants
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 interpretation...
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Pause and Participate. Play and Photograph.
5-day workshop and exhibition on the theory of photography, ethics, intention and identity with a special focus on participatory art practises and game production. After three days of theoretical input on image...
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing - Insects
The workshop offers an intensive study of insects to initiate artistic contact with endangered fellow creatures. You will learn drawing-based research methods and work in Berlin´s Natural History Museum and the...
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Public Intervention with Sound
This public intervention workshop offers an opportunity for artistic practices by emphasizing on sound. We will intervene in public space with a focus on specificity of Berlin Central Station where we will exhibit...
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Data Sculptures as Translational Acts
Data visualization is a great tool to promote transparency and to render simulations of climate change. Moving beyond the limitations of two-dimensional data representation, this workshop will explore the intricacies...
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Writing = Design
Learn about writing as a tool. Make words work for you! Creative use of language provides you with manifold possibilities in your private and professional communication.
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Body as Magnifier
In this 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 quality of movement will...
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Berlin Poster - Image Making in Experiments and on Risography
Pictorial staging of urban spaces is the theme of the workshop. The project consists of explorations in the city of Berlin and their translation into graphic images using the printing technique of risography. Different...
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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, the participants receive quick assignments which...
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Artspeak: English as a Foreign Language Workshop
English 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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A Situationist Guidebook to every City
We will create a universal travel guide, which can be used anytime in any city for exploring, appropriating and enjoying the urban spectacle. It will lead people into situations and games and will encourage playing...
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Glue: Collectiv Improvising and Composing in Sound - Drawing - Performance
The workshop aims to prepare creative situations in improvisation by learning interactive strategies.
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Transitions – Drawing and Space
This drawing workshop will explore transition spaces (not only) of urban Berlin and experiment with drawing in an open and interpretive manner. The emphasis will be put on practical artistic work in combination...
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Playwriting – From Idea to Scene and Structure
Who 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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Oral storytelling – An introduction to bilingual co-telling
Bilingual co-telling at its best is a jigsaw of imagery, languages, improvisation and a shared narrative line. In this course, we will dive into a variety of techniques employable by two oral storytellers who jointly...
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(mis-)translation club
All humans are experts in translation. We translate thoughts and feelings into words, words into written language, written language into thoughts and feelings. In this workshop we will explore as many ways to translate...
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Online: EXP: Experiment, Experience, Explore
As a 4-days- ONLINE-workshop EXP is designed for undergraduate and graduate students of different disciplines who wish to gain knowledge on the human perceptual system through experiments on perception and demonstrations...
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all that nothing causing all that thing
After 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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Biographical-Documentary Working Methods in the Context of Art
This 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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