T34. Kaleid Blage - Cyclical Image Processes with Maike Brautmeier & Ute Friederike Schernau

In this workshop, participants will take part in a two day experimental cycle that treats photography as a material, performative, and constantly transforming process. The structure moves between making, manipulating, staging, and re photographing, emphasizing photography as an evolving loop rather than a fixed result.On the first day, the focus is on hands on image production and analogue intervention, where photographs are treated as physical surfaces that can be painted, layered, cut, covered, or combined with different materials. These altered images are then re photographed, initiating a continuous loop of transformation through physical action. A wide range of materials supports intuitive and tactile experimentation.The second day builds conceptually and visually on this first cycle, connecting the process to ideas of fabric, body, veiling, revealing, and transformation. Through kaleidoscopic staging with crystals, foils, translucent materials, glass, and liquids, participants will fragment and multiply the images, using photography again as a recursive tool to extend the cycle of perception and change.Across both days, the workshop prioritizes experimentation over control and process over outcome, encouraging participants to approach the photograph as a mutable and living object.

Outline
Part 1

1. Creation and printing of photographs
2. Analogue manipulation through overpainting, layering, collage, and added materials
3. Re photographing manipulated works
4. Open experimentation using shared and personal materials

Part 2

1. Group discussion reflecting on Day 1 and introduction of conceptual framework
2. Kaleidoscopic staging of images on fabrics or bodies
3. Use of crystals, foils, translucent materials, glass, and liquids to create layered light effects
4. Continued re photographing as part of the transformation cycle
5. Collective reflection on process and results

We recommend bring and using your own camera and laptop; however, we are happy to provide both if required.