The restless image.
A discrepancy between the seen position and the felt position.
— Rose Finn-Kelcey

The Collage Lab is a workshop on collective knowledge production that Susanne lead in collaboration with a scientist and a scholar.

The workshop emerges from her artistic research on menopause and dementia, and how shared epistemologies might be constructed within small-scale art–science collaborations.

Through the practice of collage making, participants engage with scientific and academic material using visual and tactile processes to rethink how knowledge can be translated and embodied. The session begins with short introductions from the collaborators — the scientist, the scholar, and the artist — and develops into a participatory collage process.

Through cutting, rearranging, and recomposing fragments, participants work with materials drawn from my research archive, including video stills, photographs, texts, graphs, and references. This collective act of reassembly opens up new associations and possible narratives that move between the personal, the scientific, and the aesthetic.

No prior experience in art or science is required. The format is designed to be accessible to all with an interest in exploring complex subjects through material and conceptual inquiry.

The iteration of The Collage Lab - held in 2024 at LUX - brought together participants who engaged with Susanne's research materials and their own lived experiences to generate new visual and discursive connections. The resulting collages, along with photographic documentation, reflect provisional outcomes of an ongoing research process and contribute to an evolving dialogue between art and science.

Susanne continues to develop The Collage Lab as part of her broader artistic research. Individuals and organisations interested in hosting or engaging with the workshop are welcome to get in touch.

Participants' collages

All photos by Nico Dietz