The Matter of Writing
A design workshop on the re-appropriation of writing

as part of the course IMAGE-WRITING (held by Fani Paraforou)

The workshop “The Matter of Writing” poses the following questions: What is the relationship between words and space, and how does the textual become synonymous with the plastic? Is it the gesture that transforms through the resistance of things, or is it the textual that presupposes an immaterial visibility of relationships and sequences? How does a practice take shape within the bipolarity of the immateriality of words and their material meta-translatability? Can an experience of reading and performance emerge within an expanded space-time of words, signs, and their materiality, such that they operate through it? 

Writing constitutes a set of cultural and political elements that compose, sustain, and shape a serial field of fundamental patterns, aligning thought. On this surface, artistic practice opposes a language in which critique is directed in the reverse direction, against its guiding principles. It challenges and redraws. The workshop’s explorations, based on this bipolarity and the trilogy “index,” will be expressed through flows of materials, writings, rhizomes, and social contradictions. We will also examine how writing is transformed through material and lived processes, before the palimpsest of inscriptions and transcriptions permanently alters it in our eyes.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 14:00
Graduate Program Lobby (ground floor)