A Day of Tape & Type at the Teahouse - Berlin Asia Arts Festival Special

Saturday 23rd the Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin at C*SPACE is a must for all design and typo enthusiasts! We are delighted to spend a special day together with our pop-of-the-top award-winning creative partner, designer Yi Meng Wu, who has come-up with a special C*SPACE site-specific workshop format around tape art this year! Later in the afternoon, we are honoured to host the Berlin Typo Stammtisch.

Part 1- Tape Art – multilingualer Workshop mit Yi Meng Wu
Saturday, 23. September 2023
14:00 – 17:00

C*Space is a unique meeting place in Berlin Weissensee that embodies the rich cultural connection between Asia and Berlin. The courtyard of the C*Space will be our big canvas for the multilingual tape art workshop. Here we will be inspired by Chinese New Year sayings calligraphy and writing installations in public spaces to express good wishes and hopes. Featuring tape art that uses colored tape!
Together we think about sayings and words as an expression of our own longings and desires. These could be of a private nature, react to current world events or comment on the immediate environment. The result allows the loud and soft tones to be heard multilingually and colorfully through the art of writing in public space.
This workshop is open to anyone interested in calligraphy and does not require any previous experience. However, due to the limited number of participants, registration by e-mail is required.

Time: 2-5pm
Language: Deutsch/ Englisch
Participation Fee incl. Material Costs: 10,-€.
Registration: info@berlin-asia-arts-club
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-day-of-tape-type-at-the-teahouse-berlin-asia-arts-festival-special-tickets-700764303897
Maximum Participants: 12
Address: C*SPACE Berlin, Langhansstraße 86, 13086 Berlin Weißensee.

About the artist:
Yimeng Wu 吳禕萌 is a designer, illustrator, and book artist who was born in Shanghai and later moved to the Ruhr region in Germany at the age of 9. Growing up between the Niederrhein and the Ruhrgebiet, she developed a deep affinity for embracing multiple cultures. Yimeng studied at the University of Duisburg-Essen (now Folkwang University of the Arts), ENSAD in Paris, and the Berlin University of the Arts. As the founder of the design studio "Studio Wu 無" , based in Berlin, she specializes in "intercultural design." Her diverse portfolio spans illustration, type design, book art, and spatial installations. Work has received numerous awards, including the German Design Award, the Joseph Binder Award in Austria, the most beautiful books in Germany and China. Yimeng Wu regularly conducts creative workshops at universities in Asia (such as Tsinghua University Beijing, UPES university Dehradun India) and Germany and institutions such as the Goethe Institute.

Part 2 Asian Type & Typography
18:00-21:00
For this special edition of the Berlin Typostammtisch, part of the Berlin Asia Arts Festival, experts from the field of type design and typography will show us their work and illuminate approaches to combining different scripts. With Lukas Horn, Yi Meng Wu and others. The evening will feature five Asian scripts and how to design them, or use them typographically. Yimeng Wu will present Hanyi, Kimya Gandhi will present Devanagari, Minjoo Ham will present Hangeul, Golnar Kat Rahmani (tbc) will present Persian, and Roman Wilhelm will present Cuneiform.
The event will be in English and German.
Admission free!
Typo-Stammtisch Berlin: The Typo-Stammtisch Berlin is an ongoing format that takes place every month in Berlin. There are talks, type walks, and other free events that are all about type and typography. Lukas Horn is part of the Typostammtisch team and will represent and moderate it for this event. He is a designer with a particular focus on type design. His work encompasses a wide variety of contexts and forms, including fonts, lettering, and type for film and animation.

Registration: (please note that there are two events on this day, please reserve the ticket of your desired event)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-day-of-tape-type-at-the-teahouse-berlin-asia-arts-festival-special-tickets-700764303897