workshops
My workshops reflect the guiding principles of my artistic practice, with a focus on media, technology, urbanism, and socio-criticism. They take the form of open, participatory group work.
Since 2011, I have led several freelance workshops incorporating practical and theoretical components at various European art and educational institutions. Past clients have included the University of Art in Linz (Austria), the WRO Art Center in Wrocław (Poland), Transurban in Bielefeld, the City Leaks Festival in Cologne, and Johannesstift Diakonie in Berlin.
Topics covered include walking performance, extended photography, video art, site-specific art practices, cartography, street photography, road movies, sound art, software art, adbusting and interventions in public spaces. Participants have included artists, activists, and students of architecture, urban planning, product design, performance, dance, film, photography, and new media. Participants have also included people of different ages, from 16 to 70, with and without cognitive and physical disabilities, and with no previous training in the relevant subject. As part of these workshops, participants exhibited their work in art exhibitions or further developed their ongoing projects.
The theoretical part of my workshops focused on cultural studies, covering topics such as surveillance architectures, advertising, media manipulation, human geography, urban space, the Technocene, and media archaeology. Current world events were also examined, including the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the refugee crisis and climate change. Socio-political movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Maidan were analysed in terms of their goals and failures. All discussions drew on philosophical, sociological, and media-theoretical sources. References were made to the work of authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Rebecca Solnit, Michel de Certeau, Bruno Latour, Oliver Schlaudt, Siegfried Zielinski and Paul Virilio.
As my workshops focus on movement in both indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as in private and public areas, they do not take place in traditional working environments such as studios, workshops or lecture theatres. Instead, they are held in liminal spaces, such as corridors, technical rooms, storage rooms, kitchens, canteens, stairwells, courtyards, escape routes, streets, railway stations, bus stops, wastelands, and industrial areas. Mobile and temporary workshops and studios are also set up en route to work on projects involving sculptures, pictures, installations, videos, audio, texts and digital media.