Find out what happens in a Creative Writing Workshop with artist Katarina Petrović.
What is left unsaid when you talk?
The words you speak construct an image. Some things are visible in that image, but a lot are not. By using certain language you inevitably deny other truths.
What if we uncover the unsaid? What will the stories behind the words show us about our collective implicit biases and inherited cultural beliefs?
During this workshop with artist Katarina Petrović we will dive into the unsaid by negating existing texts using various algorithms including AI. We will then discuss what the uncovered teaches us about our reality and society. (Texts will be provided, but feel free to bring your own to uncover the unsaid!)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katarina Petrović (NL/RS) is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and humanities. Her work focuses on generative and creative processes, from meaning-making, poiesis, and organizational systems to physics of sound, light, and vacuum. She creates systems, procedural works that are presented as modular installations in an online and offline space, using media such as generative text, poetry, sound, software, and performance.
Katarina holds a MMus degree from ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and an MFA equivalent from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She is an affiliated researcher at the transdisciplinary research Center Leo Apostel (VUB) in Brussels where she initiated the ArtScience research group and lectured at the postgraduate School of Thinking (VUB). Katarina presents and lectures internationally and is currently working as a guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty, The Hague.
Recent exhibitions include ‘Poetics of Prompting’ (MU Hybrid Art Space, Eindhoven 2024) and ‘Approaching Zero’, solo exhibition at DISPLAY University Jaume I, Castellon (2024) & Cultural Center of Belgrade (2023).
katarinapetrovic.net | negativepoetry.com
Explore SG’s and the TUD Library’s related events this quarter on the theme: Language x Power
The stories we tell construct our reality, shaping our minds and the way we see the world, ourselves, and each other. But who wrote these stories, and to what end? Are we telling ourselves tales to liberate or dominate, to hope or despair? Can we tell those stories differently? And if so, what would we change?
11 Feb 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: What is language? @ TUD Library, the Nook
18 Feb 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: What would life look like in a scientific dictatorship? @TUD Library, the Nook
25 Feb 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: How do you become wise? @ TUD Library, the Nook
27 Feb – 27 May | Exhibition ‘In the Beginning was the’ @ TUD Library Hall
27 Feb 16:00 | Exhibition Opening Reception
3 March 20:30u | SG’s Critical Mass: Kolonialisme en taal: wie claimt het verhaal? @ Theater de Veste (in Dutch)
4 March 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: What is our culture’s grand narrative? @ TUD Library, the Nook
11 March 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: A workshop in paradoxical logic @ TUD Library, the Nook
13 March 16:30-18:30 | Politics of the Unsaid | Negation x Writing Workshop @ TUD Library
18 March 12:45 | Existential Tuesday: How do you manipulate people with words? @ TUD Library, the Nook
20 March 19:00 | Documentary Film night | The Mindscape of Alan Moore | VOX Film Club @ TUD Library
29 March SG’s festival For Love of the World @ Theater de Veste
