¡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 of enough and call out for action.

The one-week workshop takes the urgency of ¡BASTA! (enough) both as a political cry and an aesthetic practice. At a time marked by ecological collapse, patriarchal violence, and extractive economies, the questions are not only how much is enough, how destructive is enough, how deep is enough, but also how to inhabit and position ourselves in this excess. How do we dwell in sufficiency, in refusal, in collective re-imagination? Following Ailton Krenak’s proposal of ideas to postpone the end of the world, we activate collective tools - such as a replicable repertoire of risograph posters - as technologies of repair and imagination for living otherwise.

Through a series of collective exercises - street walks, readings, discussions, printing sessions, and encounters with artists, printers, and migrant activist collectives in Berlin - participants will be introduced to the risograph process and encouraged to collectively create a Glossary of ¡BASTA!: a print bundle of A3 posters, slogans, and messages. We will use the characteristics of a photocopy-like printer to amplify, materialize and replicate diverse interpretations of enough and call out for action.

In this way, we will inhabit the multiple meanings of ¡BASTA! As interruption, as refusal, as repair, as re-existences, as blossomings. The final outcome will combine a risograph printed poster collection and a collective flyposting intervention in the city: a wall of ¡BASTA! (Enough), assembled as a temporary urban archive of collective voices. In parallel, we will host a public assembly in the open space to expand the university and share these sentient-thoughts, processes, and creative outcomes.

Schedule

The five-day workshop will begin with readings, artist studio visits, outdoor explorations, group discussions, and exercises to distill and
draft diverse imaginaries around “Basta!” (enough). The latter half will focus on individual creation, immersing in poster design, print as protest, and risography. The workshop culminates with the co-production of a poster bundle that will be activated in a closing event inviting spectators outside the university to see, hear, and feel our shout-out to action.

Prior application requirements

• Our icebreaker: bringing a first approach to the workshop’s concept to share with the group. (specifications prior to the beginning)
• Read a text prior to the course.

Knowledge requirements

• Interest in poster design
• Interest in risography and print
• Interest in critical thinking
• Basics in design

Equipment requirements

Not a must, but we recommend bringing:

• laptop or device with design software
• sketchbook and sketching materials
• any reference or material that inspires and inspires the group

Dr. Elizabeth Gallón Droste is an anthropologist and artistic researcher whose work bridges anthropology, sound, and visual arts. She focuses on affective ecologies, riverine memories, and collective processes of (un)learning. She earned her Ph.D. In Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin (2024) with Voicing Rivers: Atrato. Her publications include Útica – Under the Murmuring Waters (Oreri, 2024).

Website: https://elizabethgallondroste.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethgallondroste/

Juliana Toro is a visual artist and printmaker (M.A. in Visual Communication, UdK). She runs Las Delicias Prints, a studio exploring print as community-building practice. She leads the Risography Workshop in the Fachhochschule Potsdam and has been a guest Lecturer in Risography for Prof. Franziska Morlok and Gabi Schillings Class between 2024 and 2025.

Website: https://julianatoro.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/na___toro