Autumn School: A CABBAGE, A WOLF AND A SHEEP

How would you visualize a story without letters? What would you create to tell your story? Would you take an image or rather make a symbol? Would you draw it by hand or use vector paths? Is one symbol enough or do you need a series of images? What is the syntax? 

Visual narratives often function with tokens as abstraction of realities and all kinds of concepts. Visual narratives target a certain audience and often ignore those with different cultural backgrounds. Visual narratives rely on the fictional potential of different combinations:

The workshop A CABBAGE, A WOLF AND A SHEEP introduces the methods of typographic ligatures as a tool to create visual narratives beyond mere letters. Aiming for a collective realm made possible by the combination of different personal symbols and their ligatures, the workshop develops a collective sign system in which the symbols and images can perform and interact with one another. The whole might be more than the sum of its parts. 

The workshop is accompanied by a panel discussion on Monday, September 25th, with talks by N.N, N.N. and Gruppo Due. On Friday, September 29th, 17:00 the workshop will be concluded with a ligaturial stage performance as the precursor of a publication and a petite aperó. 
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Organisiert von Catrin Altenbrandt, Adrian Nießler, Eike König, Johanna Siebein.