As part of the «Inscribed! » project, the students explored writing as a cultural practice and a form of creative expression. Building on the Kunstraum Lakeside’s annual theme, «Script,» the workshop focused on writing, typography, and symbols as vehicles of meaning. It explored how writing reveals social patterns and how it shapes identity, belonging, and perception.
On the first day of the workshop, a visit to the Kunstraum Lakeside exhibition served as an introduction to the topic. Afterward, the students set out in Lakeside Park to search for letters, lettering, and typographic forms in public spaces. The symbols they found were sketched and compiled into a shared alphabet from A to Z, which was then transferred onto large-format paper. This exercise sharpened their awareness of type as a form of visual design and served as preparation for their later work with typographic motifs. On the second day of the workshop, the students received an introduction to the history of tattooing at the Educational Lab, with a special focus on letters and numbers as carriers of personal, cultural, and social meanings. They then worked with real tattoo machines and experimentally tattooed fruits and vegetables with lettering motifs they had designed themselves.
Finally, the tattooed fruits and vegetables were photographed and reproduced as a five-part postcard series designed by Edith Payer. The series highlights the experimental use of lettering and takes up the reflections on signs, the body, and materiality that were sparked during the workshop.
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Workshop, May 28, 2026, Kunstraum Lakeside and Educational Lab
Workshop, May 29, 2026, Educational Lab
Postcard edition, 5 postcards, 105 × 148 mm, limited edition of 250 copies
Students from Class 3F, BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring / KuG (with Kerstin Mayerhofer)
In cooperation with Edith Payer (workshop leader), Markus Waitschacher (art education), and the Educational Lab.
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Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education as part of the OeAD program «culture connected» — partnerships between schools and cultural institutions.
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