English-speaking instructor, Ada X staff available to translate
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In collaboration with Céline Bureau

In this workshop, we will explore the possibilities of cyanotype to find new futures within participants’ archives. Participants are welcome to bring objects, photo negatives, images printed on transparent mediums, fabrics/textiles, and more from their personal belongings to create prints using the sun. Using the sun to produce images and texts, we resist oppressive structures that we collectively work under and probe for new possibilities within research and creation. We will recite and reclaim individual narratives within collective histories of resistance.

Cyanotype is the practice of exposing UV light to mediums such as fabric or paper coated in photosensitive chemicals to create rich blue prints. Using ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide, the silhouettes and negatives of objects and images create prints after prolonged exposure to UV light and after rinsing away the solution.