FOTOTECHNIKa – Claudia Rohrauer (Wien)
🗓️ Mittwoch, 15. Mai, 17:00 Uhr (CET)
📍 MOP2, Aula Design
moderiert von Prof. Achim Mohné
Green Chemistry & Photography as a Motif
Claudia Rohrauer gives an insight into a reflexive working practice in which the medium of photography is circled by means of theory, technique, process, and practice and thus becomes a motif itself. Based on two ongoing long-term projects, different approaches will be presented that examine, scrutinize, and sometimes deconstruct the inherent tension between technique and content in photography. The lecture first introduces the field of the sustainable darkroom and presents "green" alternatives to conventional laboratory chemistry based on the artistic research of the Workshop for Analogue Photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and, against this background, outlines a possible future for silver images and the consequences of this working practice for image production. This is followed by an insight into the projects Photography as Motif and FOTOTECHNIKa in the collective with Caroline Heider, Ruth Horak, and Lisa Rastl. The group has been working together since 2019 through exhibitions, publications, and symposia.
Claudia Rohrauer lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied at the School of Artistic Photography Friedl Kubelka Vienna and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the departments of Art and Photography and Video as well as Video Installation. She received the Outstanding Artist Award for artistic photography from the bm:koes and the Recognition Award for Photography from the Province of Lower Austria in 2020. Together with Lisa Rastl, she has headed the workshop for analog photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2021 and has a teaching position there. There, she researches using artistic-scientific methods on sustainable darkrooms and non-toxic photographic chemicals. More on https://claudiarohrauer.info
