
Berlin, Germany
Utopian Institutions – Inventing and Performing Collective Imagination
When:
01 September - 05 September 2025
Credits:
1 EC
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Performing Arts, Creative Arts and Design
When:
04 August - 08 August 2025
School:
Berlin Summer University of the Arts
Institution:
Berlin University of the Arts
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Language:
English
Credits:
1 EC
Fee:
580 EUR
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.
The production of art and rubbish are two sides of the same coin: defining an edition means separating prints of artistic value from imperfect waste paper. Design practice means sorting essential information from superfluous detail; waste is superfluous and must be removed from sight. These two poles are inextricably linked - particularly when we think about the mountains of refuse we produce - and design.
Our premise for Improbable Blossom is: How can we approach printmaking in a more sustainable way? Which boundaries can we set ourselves? What can we reuse? How do we deal with mistakes?
Charlotte Hornung and Jo Rüßmann
Workshop for beginners and students with a little printmaking experience.
Participants with an interest in graphic design, drawing and printmaking.
Our starting point will be a visit to the botanical gardens in Berlin, where we would like to explore the rhythms and textures of organic forms through drawing, thinking about the incredible diversity and multiplicity of organic lifeforms that have evolved within limited and extreme environments. Flora, fauna and fungi have each developed a plethora of strategies to survive in their specific habitats - whether they are symbiotic, cyclical, antagonistic or parasitic. One creature’s waste is another’s basis for existence, and every natural limitation leads to new pathways - more creativity, and more complexity. These samples will be translated into papercuts and then, into stencils. We will be using an alternative screen-printing process working only with paper stencils to print onto found materials - newspaper, waste paper, packaging materials - to create surprising combinations and compositions that generate strange and unforeseen corridors of meaning. Each participant will make a series of about 20-30 unique small format prints working with one to four colours.
Fee
580 EUR
When:
04 August - 08 August 2025
School:
Berlin Summer University of the Arts
Institution:
Berlin University of the Arts
Language:
English
Credits:
1 EC
Berlin, Germany
When:
01 September - 05 September 2025
Credits:
1 EC
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Florence, Italy
When:
30 June - 18 July 2025
Credits:
0.0 EC
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Marbella, Spain
When:
19 May - 08 August 2025
Credits:
0.0 EC
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