Photography as a (re)ssource

When an artist translates an image from one medium to another. The workshop will explore how photographs and the moving image function as a startingpoint for other artistic media and how they potentially turn it into something else. Anja Ganster (German artist, living in Switzerland, painting, installation) will introduce her own work and the processes involved and present other examples of artists that use photography as a reference point or a subject. She talks about how she deals with the image and what meaning and consequences this transfer between different medias has. She will talk about her project and experiences at rural.scapes and how she use historical photographs for experimentation and an interactive process with the communities in the rural enviroment.

In the course students are encouraged to think the other way around: Beeing inspired by a painting, by an installation, a story etc. the students take photographes in the environment of MIS and Museum of Sculpture. We then will analize the photographs and think about further manipulation of the image such as digital collaging, cropping, etc… and work on practical experimentation like projecting images on objects or parts of the building/garden. We will discuss what kind of information we can get from a photographed image in relation to its visual information, how it represents a "real experience", give proof of something has happened, reveal a content and how it can be a mirror of our own projections and memories. We will try to understand how the language of a medium relates to the image and what the concept of time means in relation to the used medium. Please bring your digital camera.

Sobre a professora
Anja Ganster 1968 born in Mainz, Germany lives and works in the region of Basel, Switzerland. Gansters work explores the relationship between light, space, time and reality in ongoing series – the substance of light, transitory spaces, looking at the everyday, landscapes – issues that Anja Ganster deals with again and again when transferring images from reality to her painting and installations. Anja Ganster’s paintings show halls, foyers, passages: stops on the way from one space to another; locations between inside and outside, “in-between” places.
Transfused by these motifs, Anja Ganster’s works constitute a boundary experience, for both herself as an artist and for the viewer: reality or dream? representation or fabrication? Her latest paintings are crystallisation points of an artistic process that moves between realism and abstraction.
These fascinatingly lucid paintings are a blend of metaphorical connection points, visual experiences and remembered reality.“ Roland Scotti, Stiftung Liner Appenzell. Since her travel to Brasil in 2012 she has began to work with videoinstallation and photography and extended the concept of her paintings into space, time, movement and sound. Her Multimedia-Installation Deslocamento was shown at the Brasilea Foundation, Basel in 2013.