Free Saturday Workshop #3 — Transformation: Language as adaptation (expressions of humor and absurdity)

FREE SATURDAY WORKSHOPS AT KUNSTINSTITUUT MELLY

EDUCATION & PARTICIPATION SPACE

Since the opening of our Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly has become a vibrant place for workshops, lectures, and collective learning experiences. Every Saturday, we organize free workshops open to everyone, where creativity, connection, and personal expression are at the heart of the experience.

In March 2026, the workshops Tip of the Tongue, led by Veronika Babayan explored multilingualism, migration, and memory through dried fruit. Participants created fruit chains inspired by expressions from different languages, reflecting on care, loss, humour, and change. Language becomes something you can see, touch, and assemble.

Following this earlier series, the final workshop will take place again on Saturday, May 16, offering a renewed opportunity to join and experience this process. Come experience a language that cannot be expressed in words!

WORKSHOP SERIES — VERONIKA BABAYAN

Kunstinstituut Melly hosted in March 2026 a special workshop series led by Veronika Babayan. Language is transmitted from mouth to mouth, from tongue to tongue. In Tip of the Tongue, participants explore multilingualism, migration, and memory through collective and sensory processes of making. By cutting, layering, assembling, and working with material, language shifts beyond literary fluency. Expressions from different languages are translated into visual and tactile forms. Multilingualism is approached as non-linear, interrupted, and constantly adapting.

The first workshop focuses on transmission and inheritance through expressions of care. The second addresses rupture, silence, and loss. The third explores transformation, working with humour, hybridity, and absurdity to imagine how language survives and shifts across time and distance.

The workshop series requires no prior knowledge and is accessible to anyone interested in multilingualism.

WORKSHOP #3 — TRANSFORMATION: LANGUAGE AS ADAPTATION (EXPRESSIONS OF HUMOR AND ABSURDITY)

In the third and final workshop, previously held in March and now returning on May 16, participants explore how language adapts. Using dried fruit, twine, and collected materials, they create chains that embody invented words, mixed languages, or untranslatable jokes. Through this playful and sensory process, participants reflect on how language changes, combines, and persists, creating a personal and collective experience of linguistic transformation