In conversation with Image Metabolisms by Nancy Valladares
Saturday March 21, 1-3 p.m.
$10 members | $15 non-members
No prior experience is required. Designed for ages 14+. All materials are provided.
Join us and artist Nancy Valladares (attending virtually) for this hands-on workshop. Nancy and Gallery staff will lead participants through the process of making phytograms, a cameraless photography technique using the natural chemistry of plants to imprint directly onto photographic paper. Participants will create their own phytogram prints and develop them using caffenol, a sustainable photodevelopment process.
No prior experience is required, designed for ages 14+. All materials are provided, and participants will leave with at least one finished print. Space is limited and registration is encouraged. To register, please contact Program & Event Coordinator Heather Kehoe, hkehoe@saag.ca.
Nancy Valladares is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and educator currently based in New York. Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nancy’s practice is deeply influenced by the construction of Honduran national identity through botanical and agricultural regimes. Trained as a photographer and filmmaker, her practice grapples with the networks and flows of image-making, and their technopolitics: from sensors, to servers, to precious metal extraction and the carbon intensive footprint of the cloud.
Valladares was a resident at Triangle Arts Association and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, and received fellowships at Harvard University’s Film Studies Center and the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative at MIT. Nancy’s work has been exhibited and screened at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sakiya Foundation, Ramallah; Goethe Institute Chicago; Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago; and Microscope Gallery in New York.
Alongside Hsurae, Nancy runs Lythologies.org a decentralized research group interested in climate futures and new ecological imaginaries. Their collaborative practice emerges from pedagogical experiments, cooking sessions, and art workshops held in the high desert and the arctic: sites of geologic and temporal frictions. With the support of cultural organizations in Taiwan and the US they have built a network of collaborators that are deeply invested in telling stories about climate and the environment. Collaborative works and workshops have been exhibited at MIT, Maxxi, RIXC Arts and Science Festival, Fab Cafe Taipei, Parsons (The New School) and Artica Svalbard.