Civic Anthotypes

Description

In this workshop, we worked with Civic Street’s past, present and its surrounding ecosystem through a playful and environmentally friendly form of photography: the anthotype. In a world of mass photography and the permanent carbon cost of data storage, the anthotype represents a more transient and precarious form of artistic production. Foraging for plants, berries and other matter from the Civic Street garden, we experimented with sunlight, stencils, pigment and temporalities of exposure.

These anthotypes endeavor to start a dialogue with the Civic Press archive through an exploratory process of collage, so that the language of civic history — from social clubs to co-operatives — is layered with the atmospheric, chemical phenomena of the present. As the collages fade naturally over time, they revitalise a morphological relationship between civic history and ecological futurity.

Period	22 Jul 2022
Event type	Workshop
Location	GlasgowShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local