Our Story Arrives Before the Language

Working with clay as a responsive material that absorbs pressure and retains traces, participants are invited to engage through touch, repetition, and gesture. This process activates non-visual modes of perception, allowing for alternative ways of sensing and (counter-)mapping bodily experience. The workshop focuses on forming transitional shapes that emerge from the interaction between memory, imagination, and material resistance.

Guided speculative narration accompanies the process, encouraging participants to reimagine the body beyond its given boundaries – as something that can expand, fragment, merge with non-human elements, or adapt to changing conditions. These narratives unfold through making, where personal and collective experiences are translated into textures and forms.

The workshop creates a shared sensory environment where individual practices intersect, opening space for collective attunement and exchange. Clay objects function as temporary embodiments of these processes, holding tensions between past and future, presence and absence.

Open to participants with diverse backgrounds, the workshop offers a space to rethink embodiment through material and sensory exploration, engaging the body as an evolving system shaped by lived experience and speculative imagination.

After the workshop, a calm shared space will be available for participants from both workshop sessions. It offers time to integrate and exchange experiences if needed, and will be open from 15:00 to 16:00.