Contemporary Art Centre and Sponge Lab invite you to take part in a two-day workshop on contact printing and alternative developing processes titled ‘Daily loops: poetics of habit’.
This black and white 16mm film contact-printing workshop invites participants to explore the intersections of experimental moving image practice and slow time. Designed with a focus on the poetic tension beyond the boundaries of routine, compliance and creative resistance, the workshop encourages participants to experiment with will explore how cameraless methods to capture and reinterpret their personal narratives of everyday life.
Participants will mix their own plant-based developers and experiment with materiality to achieve different visual effects. By isolating details of found objects, we will explore how traces of habit, quiet acts of persistence, and patterns of repetition are embedded in the familiar. By drawing attention to subtle nuances within these fragments, we invite participants to consider how the ordinary can reveal tensions between acquiescence and quiet defiance. Creative film practice offers an opportunity to ponder what lies beneath the surface of routine, inviting a more intimate and layered perspective on the habitual and seemingly insignificant.
BON ALOG is a media artist whose work combines photographic and cinematic media, video art, sculptural components, and installations. She graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts’ Photography and Media Art Department in 2019. That same year, she co-founded Sponge, an analogue moving picture lab with V. Juozenas, E. Razumaite, M. Ambrozy, and K. Dubauskas. Bon currently resides in Austria, where she is pursuing an MA in Time-based Media. In 2023 she joined filmkoop wien collective. Bon actively participates in international artistic workshops, curatorial practices and exhibitions.