Oct 18 2025
Workshop | COPYISMS: The Art of Copying, Duplicating, and Remixing with Andreas Laszlo Konrath
Sat | 12:30PM
As a part of the Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House, SI is pleased to partner with Andreas Laszlo Konrath to explore the art of copying, duplicating, and remixing as a positively experimental means of expression. We will make use of SI’s permanent collection of books and special volumes from Costanza Candeloro and Licit Illicit Bookshop: No Plot, Just Street in the Reading Room.
Using various materials made from organic compounds (paper, card, carbon paper, tracing paper, and fabric) that can be photocopied, cut, spliced, pasted, traced, or marked via analog processes (hands, scissors, glue, pens, pencils, etc.) and also replicated via technologies (scanners, cameras, Polaroids, copiers/printers), this workshop will provide space to explore how we can use automation and machines to re-interpret, remix and even disrupt ways of seeing and feeling, and approach our relationships to organic materials in new forms.
With a focus on exploring the idea of the “copy”, we will identify what it is, what it can be, and what it means as a creative process. We will utilize this notion of copying (sampling, duplicating, automated reproduction) not as a method of “cheating,” but a positive means of expression that invites spontaneous play and unexpected results. By celebrating the “bootleg” as a creative tool that embraces existing materials and remixes the content into a new structure or appearance, we will construct and fabricate mixed-media explorations through layering and intersecting of multiple mediums – including collage, assemblage, zinemaking, craft, photography, drawing/mark-making, and sculpture.
This workshop is drop-in between 12:30PM and 3PM and RSVP is not required. If you would like to let us know to expect you, you can RSVP to education@swissinstitute.net.
The Lower East Side Arts & Culture Open House is organized by Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc).