The last four Sundays I was teaching a writing workshop at the AGB, my favourite library in town, as part of the Sonntagsbureau. The idea was to do finger exercises inspired by the ways artists use language; in collages (Sister Corita), street art (Basquiat), tattoos (Tabea Blumenschein, Shirin Neshat) and concrete poetry (Dieter Roth, Hanne Darboven).
Here below a few examples of those exercises in "zeitschreiben" (writing time), "zeichensätzungen" (punctuations poems), "fratzenshows" (show of grimaces). We followed Sol LeWitt's Dictum: "If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics."
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Emilia Mello |
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Elsa Mencagli |
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Nina Del Marr
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Dorothea Fe
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Diana Gehring
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Julia Rublack
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Renata da Ribeira
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Monika Backhaus |