Join us for a talk by artist Susanne Kriemann, who presents her research and photographic projects dealing with radioactivity.
Kriemann’s practice is informed by an expansive notion of the photographic document, which understands the environment like a photographic device that records the impacts of human activity. Her interest in the long-term effects of human interventions in the environment has led her to devote several of her projects to the theme of radioactivity.
As part of her contribution to the book 10%: Concerning the Image Archive of a Nuclear Research Centre, she recontextualized images from the archive of the Karslruhe Nuclear Research Centre by presenting them alongside photographs documenting the impact of radiation on the surrounding forests. In P(ech) B(lende) and Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg), she documented the contamination of German landscapes by the mining of radioactive minerals and their ongoing rehabilitation, combining archival images, autoradiographs, and heliogravures produced using pigments extracted from contaminated plants.
This talk is part of a series of events building on the studio visits organized for the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project. It offers an opportunity to meet artists and photographers and continue to reflect on their processes and the strategies they use in constructing visual arguments, critiques, research, and observations about our built environment.
To learn more on the Lives of Documents exhibition: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/86030/the-lives-of-documentsphotography-as-project