Day-long event with a photogram workshop led by artist Leslie Thornton and scholar Alice Lovejoy, followed by a screening of experimental films on the nuclear world and a conversation.
Radiant Material: A 16mm Workshop and Screening takes over MirrorLab on Saturday, November 21, for a full day that moves from the darkroom to the screen. It's a two-part event: a photogram workshop in the morning and a curated screening in the evening, with a conversation between the curator and the artist to close it out. The whole thing is led by artist Leslie Thornton and scholar Alice Lovejoy, and co-organized by local filmmaker Sam Hoolihan.
The day starts with the photogram workshop, where Thornton and Lovejoy look at the relationship between film and the material and physical sciences. They'll be talking about photochemical film in the context of the basic science of atomic technologies, and the session itself is held in an enclosed dark space with exposure to photographic developing chemicals. If you've never worked with photograms, it's a process of creating images without a camera, placing objects directly onto light-sensitive paper or film and exposing them to light—so this is a hands-on morning rather than a lecture.
The evening shifts to a screening of experimental films that deal with the aesthetic, political, environmental and infrastructural dimensions of the nuclear world. The program is curated by Lovejoy and features work by artists like Sandra Lahire, Tomonari Nishikawa and Emily Richardson. After the films, Lovejoy and Thornton sit down for a conversation about the work. Between the two halves, the day moves from the chemistry of the medium itself to the political and environmental weight of the nuclear world that the films explore.
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MirrorLab is at 3400 Cedar Ave S in Minneapolis. The event runs from 10 AM to 8 PM on Saturday, November 21, and it's part of the Walker Art Center's Free Events and Free Thursday Nights program. Admission is free, but you'll need to register in advance.
