The Accidental Narrative
The workshop invites participants to develop a nuanced and multi-layered narrative, shaped by a title that does not come from themselves, but from another participant. Through a random pick on the first day, each person receives someone else’s title, combined with a visual, an anonymous fragment from another mind. This moment of chance becomes the catalyst: an unexpected starting point that disrupts familiar patterns and opens new narrative pathways.
The task is not to illustrate the given image or title literally, but to explore the dialogue between images, materials, and media. You may combine newly produced work with material from your archive, as long as it strengthens your conceptual thread.
Throughout the process, we focus on editing, sequencing, and shaping a coherent body of work. Fact and fiction will merge, overlap, contradict, and support each other. The randomly assigned title becomes your structural backbone, a framework upon which your story grows.
The intention is to refine your visual storytelling, embrace experimentation, and step outside your comfort zone. In five days, the aim is not volume,
but clarity: fewer images, stronger ideas, and a story that carries its own internal logic.
Day 1
Stefanie introduces her work and the workshop, and participants present their own work. Then they pick a shuffled title, research the topic, and develop a concept with visuals, references, and supporting artists.
Day 2
Participants start collecting images from research and archives and begin producing their work. Everyone receives individual consultation.
Day 3
Participants present their work-in-progress to the group as prints, discuss first results and planned presentation, and receive feedback.
They continue developing their body of work with individual consultation, complete final edits, and make arrangements for the final presenation.
Day 4
Participants focus on production for the final presentations and set up the exhibition. All work must be presented three-dimensionally in the space.
Day 5
Presentation of each work in front of the group, followed by feedback.