A Story Too Big For Me

A Story Too Big For Me

Each of us is expected to come up with an idea for a narrative that he/she would want to put in words if he/she only knew how. We will discuss our particular obstacles and develop a specific agenda to eventually overcome them. In the process, we will explore such diverse techniques as assemblage, collective writing, challenge, data mining, diagramming, discipline, drill, encounter therapy, exercise, falling in love, falling out of love, getting rich, getting poor, hypnosis, investigation, isolation, mentoring, quota, recording, research, routine, rhyming, singing and travel, and begin to practice them as far as the workshop framework allows. To start with, all participants should be able to retell their favorite story, movie or legend about writer's block.

Ingo Niermann (* 1969) is a writer and editor of of the speculative book series Solution and The Future of Art. His debut novel Der Effekt was published in 2001. Recent books include David Lieske: I Tried to Make This Work (2015), Solution 247-261: Love (ed., 2013), Choose Drill (2011), The Future of Art: A Manual (2011, with Erik Niedling), Solution 186–195: Dubai Democracy (2010), Solution 1–10: Umbauland (2009), and Solution 9: The Great Pyramid (with Jens Thiel, 2008). Niermann co-founded the revolutionary collective Redesigndeutschland, invented a tomb for all people, the Great Pyramid (thegreatpyramid.de), and together with Rem Koolhaas he has been building a tool for public ballots – Vote – in Gwangju, Korea. In cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin) Niermann started the international digital publishing project Fiktion (fiktion.cc). His work has been featured at dOCUMENTA(13), La Biennale die Venezia, MACBA, MoMA, mumok, and ZKM. Niermann studied Philosophy and Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and is currently living in Basel.