Worlds that Whisper

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 and paper stencil screen-printing.

Each of us contains multitudes. Our self is a collection of sensitive, raging, serious, silly, soft-footed, stomping, sauntering, cowardly and courageous creatures. Our inner worlds are in turmoil: they are made up of busy conferences and delicate alliances. We are also mirrors for the outside world: the news we read, the content we consume, the people we encounter on the street, the chaos and intensity of city life – they infiltrate the porous membrane of our selves and colour our emotional landscapes. The terms introversion and extraversion were first used by CG Jung to describe differences in our personalities in terms of how outwardly or inwardly focussed we are – do we search for new impressions, for inspiration, beyond ourselves, or are we content to get lost in the maze of our own inner life? Do we need connection to complete us, or are we enough?

Worlds That Whisper is a playful journey into our heads: what would visual representations of our various impulses, traits and idiosyncrasies look like as abstract forms, as creatures, as metaphysical entities? How do they relate to each other? Is their relationship a loving or antagonistic one, a neutral or entirely indescribable one? Our aim is to explore the visual language of affect – the shapes we give to feelings – through an associative, hands-on process: drawing, folding, cutting and printing. Every day, each participant will create an edition of small prints in 1-2 colours using a simplified screen-printing technique which uses paper stencils: working with mirrored papercuts and modular compositions, we will create worlds full of symmetry and contrast.

Schedule

Monday 10:00 - 17:00 (+ 1h lunch break)
Tuesday 10:00 - 17:00 (+ 1h lunch break)
Wednesday 10:00 - 17:00 (+ 1h lunch break)
Thursday 10:00 - 17:00 (+ 1h lunch break)
Friday  10:00 - 17:00  (+ 1h lunch break)

Knowledge requirements

Workshop for beginners and students with a little printmaking experience.
Participants with an interest in graphic design, drawing and printmaking.

Equipment requirements

Pencils, sketchbook, scissors, box cutter

Charlotte Hornung (she/her), UdK M.A. graduate and visual artist, stands for bold colors and geometric shapes. She prints via screen or stencil printing, both on paper and constructed sculptural objects. From 2023 to 2024 she worked as a screenprint lecturer for UdK Berlin as well as Kulturforum.

https://www.instagram.com/charlottehornung/

 

Jo Rüßmann (she/her), UdK M.A. graduate, illustrator and comic artist. She writes and draws graphic narratives with a focus on the tension generated between linear narration and its subversion through narrative and logical breaks. Analog drawing and printing are always at the heart of her work. From 2023 to 2024 she taught screenprinting courses at UdK Berlin and at Kulturforum.

https://www.instagram.com/jo_el_ru/

As a duo, Charlotte Hornung and Jo Rüßmann organize exhibitions, pop-up shows and attend visual art and printmaking fairs together. Since 2021 they have developed their very own creative and methodical perspective.