Damaged still image from a 1987 film by Victor Kyzyma (damage caused by agricultural lime), Urban Media Archive, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Join as artist Kajsa Dahlberg introduces her research into film as an apparatus intertwined with nonhuman modes of life - specifically looking at the role of macro-algae in the history of photography.

Developed through her practice based PHD at the Royal Insitute of Art, Stockholm, this research looks at forms of mechanical reproduction, such as film and photography, as neither simply mechanical, nor exclusively the product of human decisions, but also the product of the activity of agents other than ourselves. Here, the camera lens, rather than being the threshold between that which is registered and that which is not, becomes a device that offers the potential to engage in a reciprocal relationship with the world, and to place the perspective within something other than (human) optics.

This event is one of a series of events organised alongside Residency 21, Nature Scribbles and Flesh Reads. The residency is developed with Kajsa Dahlberg and Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. It proposes a process of collective research into intertwined relationships between body and environment, seeking to understand ways in which contaminating toxins cut through lands and bodies.