Workshop, May 28, 2026, Kunstraum Lakeside and Educational Lab
Workshop, May 29, 2026, Educational Lab
Postcard edition, 5 postcards, 105 × 148 mm, edition of 250 copies
Students of Class 3F, BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring (with Kerstin Mayerhofer)
In cooperation with Edith Payer (workshop leader), Markus Waitschacher (art education), and the Educational Lab.
As part of the project Inscribed!, the students explored writing as a cultural practice and a means of artistic expression. Drawing on the Kunstraum Lakeside’s annual theme Script, the workshop focused on writing, typography, and signs as carriers of meaning. It examined how writing reveals social patterns and shapes identity, belonging, and perception.
The first day of the workshop began with a visit to the exhibition at Kunstraum Lakeside, introducing the participants to the topic. The students then explored Lakeside Park in search of letters, inscriptions, and typographic forms in public space. The collected signs were sketched and combined into a shared alphabet from A to Z, which was subsequently transferred onto a large sheet of paper. This exercise sharpened their awareness of writing as a visual language and served as preparation for the later work with typographic motifs. On the second day, at the Educational Lab, the students were introduced to the history of tattooing, with a particular focus on letters and numbers as carriers of personal, cultural, and social meanings. They then worked with real tattoo machines, experimentally tattooing fruit and vegetables with self designed typographic motifs.
To conclude the workshop, the tattooed fruit and vegetables were photographically documented and reproduced as a series of five postcards designed by Edith Payer. The series highlights the experimental engagement with writing while reflecting on the relationships between signs, the body, and materiality that were explored throughout the workshop.
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research within the OeAD program culture connected ‒ cooperations between schools and cultural institutions.
