WAFF 3 (2023)
Waff 3 was organised by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler in the town of Gresten in Lower Austria, Austria. It took place from the 8th until the 20th of July 2023.
(w)hole Earth catalog
Daniel Hüttler &
Kai Trausenegger
This workshop was organised by Daniel Hüttler and Kai Trausenegger. It consisted on producing a makeshift oven for burning imporvised potter from the clay that was gained from the local earth
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Janina Weißengruber &
Nana Sorgo
Heartbreak Cake
Carla Magnier
This workshop was organised by Daniel Hüttler and Kai Trausenegger. It consisted on producing a makeshift oven for burning imporvised potter from the clay that was gained from the local earth
Boredom Remix
Marl Brun
Ruin Walk and exhibition
Julian Siffert
Equipping Mushroom
Lucille Leger
The poet-artist Marl Brun proposed a day focused on the experience of boredom. The first part involved reflection and writing about moments of boredom experienced during the stay, followed by a second part of group creation to invent the 'Evening of Boredom' from a scenographic, event-driven, and culinary perspective, and then perform it.
For her workshop day, Lucille Leger invited us to discover mushroom picking while exploring the surrounding area. At first, we were tasked with finding natural materials to build walking sticks and harvest baskets. Afterward, we set off to discover the local mushroom varieties under Lucille’s experienced eye. At the end of the day, the walking sticks were transformed into torches, using bees-wax and clothes the residents had been wearing in the day, followed by an evening of tasting.
The workshop of Julian Siffert was structured as a walk through the different historical buildings of the area of Gresten, where Waff 3 took place. At each station, the artists did a reading and performed music. At the en of the walk, the artists were tasked with preparing an improvised exhibition with the materials they had found on the way.
Teuta started her day by conducting a collective meditation session in the fields. The residents were divided in pairs to conduct body exercises of activation. After some hours, groups of three were formed. The new task was for one of the residents to close their eyes for 30 minutes while the other two would guide them through the premises of the residency house, the fields, and the woods. The exercise concludes with a deep reflection session where all participants shared their experience to each other.
In her artistic practice, Sarah deals with artificial intelligence and trends in contemporary technology. For her Workshop, Sarah tasked the residents with drawing a number of animals and fantastic beings that were later collectively collage into a one dimensional sketch. The residents were divided into three groups.
One group was tasked with converting the two-dimensional sketch into a three-dimensional sculpture, the other with shooting a video that could be used as a screensaver for every participant of Waff to remember their residency. The last group should collect recurring phrases and feed them to an A.I. model to create a WAFF-AI. The outcomes were presented in the common space at the end of the day.
For her third Waff workshop, Iris gathered all the participants in the morning to think about their favorite animal. During the day, each resident was tasked with conducting intense research about the animals they choose. At a given time, all residents should adapt some traits of their animal into their behavior. All were tasked to uncover which animals were decided to be mimicked. The ones that were discovered had to take overt the traits of the animal that uncovered them, that slowly created a creeping harmony between the dissonant and weird behaviors of the residents.
Speculative WAFF
Sarah Fitterer
Mimicry
Iris Fabre
WAFF walk with me
Teuta Jonuzi
In this workshop, Carla Magnier invited participants to create a cover of a song they could intimately relate to, connected to a heartbreak situation. The recording was meant to be a private moment for oneself. The participants could choose any of the 10 days to do their recording. On the same day they would do so, they were asked to present it together with an own 'heartbroken cake' to the group. The workshop created sudden moments of attentive listening and sharing while, at the same time, provided the residents with experimental tasting experiences.
WAFF 2 (2021)
Waff 2 was organised by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler in the town of San Pol de Mar in Catalunya, Spain. It took place from the 18th until the 29th of July 2021.
Body Theater
Eva Van Der Horst
For her second Waff workshop, Eva tasked the residents with observing the movements their many characters were doing in the different workshops. At one given time, she set up a camera for us to perform these movemtents and invite other residents to reenact them. Take after take the movements were adapted to the other performers. Then, a final take was done.
The workshop of Marl Brun dealt with Boredom. For Marl, Boredom is too oftenly percieved as a negative thing, something that signalises emptiness or the negativity of action. In Waff, Marl decided to experiment with this cultural notion and tasked the residents with spending a day in complete boredom, prompting us to think about it from an immersed perspective.
Boredom Workshop
Marl Brun
Corpus delicti is a Latin term that translates to "body of the crime." In legal terms, it refers to the principle that a crime must be proven to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. This involves demonstrating that a specific crime has actually been committed, which typically requires the presentation of concrete evidence, such as a body in a murder case or stolen property in a theft case. Janina took this idea to create a workshop where three groups of three residents had to find evidence to fabulate a crime, which was written down as a short story. At the end, all groups presented their case.
Corpus delicti
Janina Weißengruber
Whaff we dine
Iris Fabre &
Carla Magnier
For their second Waff, Iris and Carla decided to focus on one crucial element of the residency; Dinner time. They made two groups from the residents, each had to write a poem which would be interpreted by the other group into an immersive dinner concept. Two dinners were prepared with unique, elaborate concepts which were recorded into the table cloth that was used for all of them.
Daniel’s second Waff workshop followed the pattern of his first one. It consisted of following a pre-written manual for a writing exercise with reading exercises and the collective building of a stage from where the letters were read from aloud. Daniel chose the beach as the location for his workshop, where they dig 10 holes, one for each resident. The residents read their letter and then lied down on these holes, which were then filled with sand. Then, a few words were said about the buried resident for them to come back.
G Letter-writting workshop
Daniel Hüttler
The good neighbor
Felix Ladinsa
The good neighbor was a workshop that dealt with the interspecies relationship of the residents with the Moskitoes that inhabited the same area as them. Felix’s workshop consisted in scripting a ritual and offering to the Moskito Kin to reach an agreement of non-violent coexistence.
NO FEAR
Chin Tsao
No Fear is a lifestyle clothing brand that was popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was known for its edgy, motivational slogans promoting bravery and resilience. Chin took inspiration from this brand to motivate residents on doing an alternative personality that would have NO FEAR. Each participant scripted a character with an introduction. Based on this, they all did masks, which they wore when publicly reading their statements.
Attentive Listening = attentive songs
Klaus Rabeder
Klaus’s brought many recording devices which he borrowed to the residents for a couple of days after giving an introduction about their correct use. The residents were tasked to record interesting sounds around the area of the residency. After recording them, Klaus transformed them into samples and uploaded them into musical instruments he had also brought with him. The workshop then culminated in a music jamming session where all residents could play the sounds they had found and mix them with the sound others had collected.
Parasites amongst us
Pille-Riin Jaik
In her second Waff workshop, Pille-Riin kept in line with her research on the different forms of livability between living beings. She tasked the residents to think of a speculative living being that would have a parasitic behavior. After meticulously describing them, the residents had to build a small model of them and place them in their speculative habitat, from where they were introduced to the group.
WAFF 1 (2019)
Waff 1 was organised by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler in the town of Ville-Vieille in the Hautes-Alpes department, France. It took place from the 10th until the 22nd of July 2019.
Bring the Outside-In
Iris Fabre
Applied Choir Practice
Carla Magnier
What is a Plant what is a Weed?
Pille-Riin Jaik
Moving Image : Film
Ernst Gachet
Rehearsing Walk
Eva Van Der Horst
DECAMERON
Marian Mutschlechner &
Pia Wurzer
King or Queen for a day
Charly Mirabeu
SLWW
Daniel Hüttler
Iris’s workshop was the first Waff workshop ever. It followed a simple premise: to bring the outside in and the inside out. What resulted was a cacophony of exercises that would invert the ins and the outs: the furniture of the house was brought out, plants were brought in. This exercise set the experimental and daring logic that Waff would follow in all its future versions.
The Applied Choir practice was the second workshop of Waff. Carla thought us the verses and melodies of two different songs. One medieval French one and an antique Greek chant. These songs accompanied us during the 10 days of the first Waff, as we were called upon to sing the songs at different places at different times. This exercise created a collective resonant body that channeled the energies of the residency into a constant vibration.
The question that crowns the title of the workshop is one that Pille-Riin Jaik has asked herself a very long time: how do we distinguish a weed from a plant? In the lexicon, the distinction lies in the invasive properties of the second, but how can we say what invasive really is in a world as globalized as ours? The workshop consisted in rooting paper-materials from the residency and using them to create new and experimental forms of plants, flowers, or trees. The result was an exhibition of a novel collection of pseudo-organic beings.
Ernest is a filmmaker and decided to make a workshop that resonates with his practice. He took elements from each of the workshop and scripted a performance where all residents acted them in front of a rolling camera.
Eva’s workshop started the first day of the residency, where all residents were tasked with carefully observing the movement of each other. After a couple of days, the residents had to limit their observation to a resident they got randomly assigned to. The Workshop culminated in one collective session where Eva taught us the technique of Butoh Dance. After all got accustomed to the dance, Eva asked us to implement the movements we had carefully observed during the residency, resulting in a unique and situated dance resulting from 10 days of being together.
Pia Wilma and Marian are actors who had recently acted in an adaptation of the Decameron, a classic work of Italian literature written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century. It is a collection of 100 short stories told by a group of ten young people (seven women and three men) who have fled Florence to escape the Black Death. Over ten days, each character tells one story per day, focusing on various themes such as love, wit, fortune, and human nature. Marian and Pia adapted this work to our situation, promoting all residents to think of short stories and characters that they would act and perform.
In Charly’s workshop, each resident would have the saying over what breakfast would be like. The King/Queen of the following day was announced at each dinner. All other residents had to write a letter to the Queen/King, all of which were read at the end of each day. This exercise brought the resident closer together.
The SLWW is a workshop dedicated to writing a letter to one self about their own fears. The Workshop has been employed by Daniel since 2018. In the workshop, the participants follow a manual that includes reading exercises as well as writing exercises. The Workshop was accompanied by a collective sculpture building session with the natural materials that were found on the spot. At the end, the participants read their letter to each other on top of the sculpture. The sculpture remained in place.
