Jaqueline Scheiber: Growing Pains

Artist workshop with Jaqueline Scheiber at Kunsthalle Wien Atelier

Wed 14.05., from 18h & Fri 23.05., 16h

Writing is a deeply vulnerable and honest activity, it is stronger and more persistent than the spoken word. Working with language also means constantly going to places that can trigger unpleasant feelings. Whether it’s discovering different tools for creating a text or editing ("kill your darlings") existing approaches. Writing down our thoughts also sometimes takes us to emotional and even dark places; we have to search within ourselves to find words. Paper is considered the most confidential carrier of our most intimate secrets in diary writing, for example, or in expressing our feelings in a letter. What all these struggles have in common is the gentle and sometimes very obvious ache as we grow, learn, find out more about ourselves and develop further as a result.

Writing with growing pains means truly engaging in a deep exploration of one’s own language repertoire and recognising that everyone has the opportunity to move forward from their own point of view.

Jaqueline Scheiber would like to offer the participants a safer space and create sufficient stimuli in which non-judgemental experimentation and a cautious approach to language and writing are possible. Participation may be hesitant, shy, without prior experience or expectations. At best, however, it should arise from an honest interest in oneself. Because what we write remains.

In the second block, various techniques that make personal writing more precise and enable editing will be introduced. Participants should recognise whether they are (unconsciously) using techniques and thereby expand their skills. In addition, the focus will be on the art of vulnerability, which is presented and applied using examples from literature as well as practical exercises.

From recognising one’s own voice for the first time, to refining it through techniques, to self-confident expression in autobiographical and essayistic writing, the three workshops build on each other, but can also be attended individually.

Please register at: vermittlung@kunsthallewien.at

Language: German

Workshop fee: € 25,-
Reduced: € 15,-

Your workshop ticket allows you to visit the current exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien free of charge.