Language art between image and text with Brigitta Höpler

Workshop description:

Language art between text and image - visual poetry, montages, collages and nature poetry.

We move between text and image in a variety of ways over these three days. Playfully and experimentally. We experience language as material, we are writers in the truest sense of the word: we turn writing on its head and rearrange it again and again.

One day we write with scissors: we cut, tear, join, glue, compose collages/montages and other text-image formats.in visual poetry, language itself becomes an artistic medium: words are no longer just carriers of meaning, but also design elements. We experiment with different pens, colors and paper formats, taking inspiration from the history of art and literature. 

For nature poetry, we look for and collect materials from nature, seeds, leaves, grasses, branches, ... and arrange them on sheets of paper to create ever new text formations that evoke associations with writing and language.