Parallel Practices. Workshops / artist development and methodology sessions.
Parallel Practices is an interdisciplinary workshop and research platform exploring artistic process through artist-led experimentation and collective inquiry. See below for a selection of One to One (1:1) or Group (GRP) events in Berlin and Manchester.
Nr.1
Independent Artistic Methodologies
Developing personal systems outside institutional expectations
1:1 / GRP
KURT KURT, Moabit, Berlin
Independent Artistic Methodologies
This workshop explores how artists construct sustainable and meaningful creative methodologies beyond prescribed institutional, academic, or commercial frameworks. Through discussion, reflective exercises, and process-led experimentation, participants will examine the relationship between routine, intuition, and artistic identity in the development of long-term practice.
Rather than focusing on outcomes or professional conformity, the workshop encourages participants to identify and strengthen the systems, habits, and conceptual structures already present within their own work. Particular attention is given to nonlinear processes, fragmented archives, interdisciplinary thinking, and approaches that resist standardised creative models.
Designed for artists, musicians, photographers, writers, and interdisciplinary practitioners seeking to deepen or reorient their practice through self-defined artistic investigation.
Nr.2
Working with dormant material
Memory reconstruction, journals, sequencing, and artistic archaeology
1:1 / GRP
Berlin / Manchester
Working with dormant material
This workshop explores the creative potential of dormant archives, unfinished work, personal documents, photographic fragments, journals, recordings, and overlooked material accumulated across time. Participants are invited to examine how memory, displacement, repetition, and reinterpretation can transform existing material into new artistic forms.
Through guided discussion, sequencing exercises, reflective writing, and process-led investigation, the workshop approaches archival practice as a form of artistic archaeology — uncovering relationships between image, text, sound, memory, and material that may not have been visible when the work was originally created.
Rather than focusing on preservation or nostalgia, the workshop considers the archive as an active and unstable space where meaning continues to shift through revisiting, reproduction, and reinterpretation. Participants will develop strategies for working with fragmented histories, nonlinear narratives, autobiographical material, and unresolved creative processes.
Designed for photographers, artists, writers, musicians, and interdisciplinary practitioners interested in memory, process, and the reconstruction of meaning through existing material.
Nr.3
Sound + Image Relationships
Translating photographic thinking into sound and sound into image
1:1 / GRP
Berlin / Manchester
Sound + image relationships
This workshop explores the relationship between sound, image, rhythm, texture, space through interdisciplinary artistic practice. Participants will investigate how photographic processes, visual sequencing, field recording, atmosphere, repetition, and sonic composition can inform one another beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Through listening sessions, visual analysis, discussion, and practical experimentation, the workshop examines how artists construct emotional, spatial, and material relationships between what is seen and what is heard. Particular attention is given to atmosphere, fragmentation, duration, silence, noise, abstraction in shaping audiovisual experience.
Rather than treating sound as accompaniment to image — or image as illustration of sound — the workshop encourages participants to develop parallel methodologies where both forms influence and reshape one another through process-led investigation.
Designed for musicians, photographers, filmmakers, sound artists, visual artists, and interdisciplinary practitioners interested in developing expanded approaches to audiovisual practice and contemporary artistic research.
Nr.4
Creative Practice & Neurodivergence
Nonlinear processes, fragmentation, focus, and alternative creative systems
1:1 / GRP
Berlin / Manchester
Creative practice & neurodivergence
This workshop explores the relationship between neurodivergence and artistic practice through process-led discussion, reflection, and creative experimentation. Focusing on nonlinear thinking, fragmented methodologies, repetition, hyperfocus, interruption, memory, and associative processes, the workshop considers how alternative modes of perception and organisation can shape original creative work.
Rather than approaching neurodivergence as limitation or diagnosis, the workshop examines how artists develop personal systems that exist outside conventional expectations of productivity, structure, authorship, and creative routine. Participants are encouraged to reflect on the ways their own working patterns, habits, sensitivities, and interruptions contribute to the formation of artistic identity and method.
Through conversation, sequencing exercises, archival thinking, writing, and interdisciplinary approaches, the workshop creates space for participants to investigate sustainable and self-defined creative methodologies that emerge from lived experience rather than imposed frameworks.
Designed for artists, musicians, writers, photographers, and interdisciplinary practitioners interested in process, perception, and the development of independent creative practices.