12/11/2024
Cyanotype Workshop with Sohorab Rabbey
Saturday 16.11.24, 2-6pm
Unarchiving Limmat: Trainline, Hydropower and River
Within the scope of the workshop we will dive deep into the perception of a landscape not as an inert and static ground subjected to human agency, but as operating from a dynamic social structure and in response to the extractivist practices of urbanisation. Addressing the malleability of land and water; their impact on legislation systems; we will try to understand how Limmat valley and infrastructural blueprints (নীলনকশা) came to determine the Dietikon as a place, space and river in relation to hydroelectric dam, train line and vegetal agencies. With an early 19th century photographic and archive generating technique, namely Cyanotype we will revisit how different modes of infrastructures control the water bodies and affect the ecology and climate.
To attend, please register until Friday, 15.11.24 via [email protected]
Free admission!
The workshop will be held in English.
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Sohorab Rabbey (1994) is an artist and researcher from Bangladesh who grew up on the banks of the Turag River and his visual practice stems from his engagement with the river community and research into river ecology. Drawing on indigenous Hydroontology from field research and the local wisdom of ancestral knowledge – an act of remembering, restoring and reclaiming – he finds his form and material, primarily through installations, prints and sculptures that bleed into other mediums. Sohorab re-examines colonial legislative systems by distorting colonial archives, legal documents, infrastructures, herbarium images and cartographic maps and advocates for the legal rights of indigenous peoples.
Sohorab is currently an Artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift in Hamburg, Germany.
