Styrian Summer Art: Language Change – Text Walks & Pictures | Werner Schwaiger
General Information
Workshop Description:
A literature workshop that brings writing into motion and sends participants on fresh creative paths in interplay with space, nature, and new media.
The workshop focuses on unconventional writing techniques and methods that stimulate creative processes and allow texts to emerge from unusual perspectives. Writing is understood as an open, playful activity, where stories can unfold and language comes alive. Through practical exercises, exchange, and collaborative experimentation, participants will create texts that sharpen their own literary expression.
Literature wants to be found – accordingly, parts of the workshop will shift outdoors, depending on the weather. Walks and writing phases in the Pöllau area will become part of the creative process. The workshop consciously works with boundary crossings and approaches concrete poetry and visualized literature with ease and joy: "Everything can be text."
A key focus is on literature in public spaces and at the intersection of language and visualization. Texts are not only written but also thought spatially and made visible. With the help of augmented reality, the literary works will be visualized and realized on the final day in the public space.
Please bring:
Writing tools, preferably paper and pens
The Artist:
Werner Schwaiger, freelance author and copywriter
- Program design for the literature sector at kunsthaus muerz
- Publications and readings as part of the literature group perspektive
- Theater productions as part of the "steirischer herbst" festival, including Kafka (Franzobel)
- Management of "Dachbodenkultur" and Brucker Dachbodentheater
- Artistic direction of "Industrie Kultur-Festival Leoben / Steirische Eisenstraße"
- Collaborative book and film project with Bodo Hell (Eisenwalz), collaborative play with Franzobel (Styrical)
- Member of the Cultural Council of Styria
- Management of theater/cabaret "Leobener Frischluft" in Leoben
- Works in the field of literature in public spaces, works with new media, especially augmented reality in connection with literature
About the offer
Meeting point
Nature Park Pöllauer Tal, Pöllauberg
Meeting point at 9:00 AM in front of the Pöllau Tourist Office
Price information
380,- EUR
Contact and Arrival
Contact
Styrian Summer Art: Language Change – Text Walks & Pictures | Werner Schwaiger
office@styriansummerart.at Website +43 664 54 04 289Operator
Styrian Summer ArtVerein Styrian Summer Art
Schloss 1,
8225 Pöllau bei Hartberg AT
