Reimagining Safe Spaces – A Collective Printmaking Workshop
with Alice Kahei Yu
🗓 17. JULY 2024, 3 PM to 6 PM
📍Prenzlauer Studio, Winsstraße 42, 10405 Berlin
🗣 spoken english
💰 free
👥 for BIW*oC/TIN*BIPoC
(Black, Indigenous and Women* of Color) / (trans*/ inter*/ non-binary* people identifying as Black, Indigenous or of Color)
PRINTMAKING
Together, we will share our stories and experiences, revisit different scenarios, and use our creativity to turn them into practices. Utilizing printmaking techniques such as linocut, woodcut, and paper-cut, we will collectively map out our frustrations, narratives, desires, and imagined spaces.
ORIGINS
The history of contemporary woodcut prints depicting social realities is deeply rooted in Asia, from Lu Xun’s woodcut movement to anonymous works like Huang Rongcan’s „Terrifying Inspection“, evolving through movements such as the democracy movements of the 1980s and resistance against authoritarianism in 1990s Indonesia, eventually transforming into today’s activist woodcut groups.
Alice Kahei Yu
Alice Kahei Yu is an artist and the initiator of Prenzlauer Studio, a project space in Berlin since 2017, focusing on self-organized/autonomous spaces and grassroots movements. Yu uses painting as a tool to reflect on the relationship between mental health and public space, healing, and research on the individual and the collective. Yu also works with moving images and sounds to explore how class struggles, capitalism, and structural racism shape and intertwine our urban landscape and soundscape.
