How to perform a scream

How to Perform a Scream, Letter by Letter? is a collective, participatory workshop, a moderated writing session that transforms the written word into a shared action through the performance of text. Participants write letters in response to an apocalyptic lover of their choosing, using the epistolary form in their own tongues. An apocalyptic lover is the force you desire even as it destroys you—a system, a state, a body, or a memory. It seduces through power, promises safety while enacting harm, and offers love wrapped in control. It is dressed as care, disguised as intimacy, and whispered through longing. To name the apocalyptic lover is to expose the violence embedded in closeness and to begin resisting it through voice, rupture, and collective defiance.

What will we do?

From these writings and exercises, we will collectively select single words, cut their letters from 200 g A4 paper, and turn them into tangible, functional objects—ready to be held and activated through voice, movement, and gesture. The letters become part of a live, cacophonic choir moving through the space, with bodies holding the chosen letters and vocalizing them simultaneously, in different tones and manners.

Using voice as a tool, the goal is to perform a living book: a lexicon that deforms, recombines, and generates new meanings, tongues, and contexts, rewritten through movement and sound. The exercise becomes a playful yet urgent exploration of collective imagination in the face of dangerous lovers.

About the artistI am Nadja Kracunovic (b. Nađa Kračunović, 1996, Belgrade,Serbia) a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice is founded on text. I work across performance, video, object, and voice, creating multimedia diaries and survival kits. Since 2023, I have led a series of writing and voice workshops titled How to Perform a Scream? in which different methods of performing text and voice are explored, allowing lovers, noise, and stories to invade diverse spaces. Website: https://nadjakracunovic.com/

Visuals: Sasa Tatic (https://www.instagram.com/sashatatic?igsh=ODlnMW1vdjZ6czRt)

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*Please note that the workshop space at Vagabund Brauerei is not climate controlled. It is indoors, but on the second floor with high ceilings amidst the brewer's tanks. The breaks of all PRINTERHOF programming are planned with this temperature in mind, and while it will not be as cold as outside, it will also not be heated. Please prepare your clothing accordingly if you reserve a ticket!