English photographic artist Alice Cazenave offers Cyanotype workshop Nov. 5 in Silver City
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 2:49pm
Event Date:
November 5, 2022 - 1:30pm Alice Cazenave, a London-based photographic artist, will offer a cyanotype workshop for adults on Saturday Nov. 5, 1:30 p.m. at the Silver City Schoolhouse at 385 High Street, Silver City, Nev.
Contact Quest Lakes at quest@theodata.com to reserve a spot in this free two and a half hour long workshop, which is limited to fifteen participants. Everyone will have the chance to take home two unique prints.
Participants are asked to bring part of a plant, such as a leaf, that they think might make an interesting print. Participants are also asked to bring a small object, such as a key or feather, that can be used in the workshop.
Cazenave explains that, “by using plants that mean something to us, the workshop hopes to engage in discussions into the futures of ecologies in the surrounding area, and how changing landscapes affect our lives.”
Alice Cazenave’s description of her November 5 workshop:
“This workshop thinks about links between landscapes, photographic images and future lives and ecologies. It considers the toxicity of analogue photography, and the methods used to process metals like silver and iron which made photographic chemistries. Working with cyanotype, we will make prints of objects and plants that are significant to us. We will then tone our prints using plant toners made from desert species like sagebrush and yellow rabbitbrush.
By making prints together, the workshop aims to open up discussions into the legacies of silver extraction that enabled analogue photography in the 20th century.
Part I: Discussion of plants brought to the workshop
Part II: Coating paper with cyanotype and exposing
Part III: Toning prints in plant-based toner
About the instructor:
Alice Cazenave’s photographic work has been published in The British Journal of Photography, The Guardian and the New York Times. She has exhibited internationally, and gives guest lectures at institutions including The Science Museum, London and Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona. Alice is co-developer at the Sustainable Darkroom where she researches lower-toxicity, plant-based chemistries as substitutes for traditional darkroom materials. She lectures at Canterbury Christchurch University and is undertaking a PhD at Goldsmiths University, London.
Alice Cazenave’s “research and practice focus on photographic silver, and how this material changes ecologies, geologies and lives. Silver is the essential light-sensitive material coating analogue papers and films, making them photosensitive. Cazenave traces silver’s journeys as it is extracted from the earth and reintroduced back into the earth through various kinds of pollution associated with analogue industries. She combines social theory, molecular biology, art and anthropology to examine how silver changes earth chemistries, climates and worlds of human and nonhuman kinds.”
Sponsorship:
The workshop is sponsored by the Resident Artist Program in Silver City. Artists, musicians and writers from around the world stay at McCormick House for up to several months in exchange for offering free public performances, workshops, poetry readings, etc. in Silver City and other communities in the Northern Nevada region. Silver City is located within the historic Comstock region three miles south of Virginia City.
