Join ICP online for a conversation featuring Odette England and Jennifer Garza-Cuen on their new publication, “Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg.”
The photographers spent a week in 2018 at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida, collaborating on a series of nearly 200 photograms that activated expired 1970s photo paper from Rauschenberg’s darkroom through piercing, folding, tearing and submerging the exposures in the residence pool. ICP Curator and contributor to the book, David Campany, will lead the conversation focused on the process of creating the photograms, activating Rauschenberg’s materials, and the making of their new photobook.
Purchase Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg ($65, Radius) through ICP’s shop.
About
In 2018, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England spent a week at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida, collaborating on a series of nearly 200 photograms. The images were made in Rauschenberg’s swimming pool, using expired 1970s gelatin silver paper found in his darkroom. The two artists ‘activated’ the paper by piercing or slashing the bags and envelopes using pens, scissors, or knives; folding the silver paper at odd angles; or layering them inside the bags. Some sank to the bottom of the pool, while others floated on top or by the filtration units. Exposures were made overnight and throughout the day, allowing different levels and intensities of sunlight, moonlight, and water to penetrate the paper.
Speaker Bios
Odette England is a photographer and writer whose work has been shown in more than 100 museums, galleries, and art spaces worldwide. Recent honors include being awarded the 2020-21 Artist-In-Residence Fellowship at Amherst College, a Light Work fellowship, RISCA Fellowship in Photography, Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund Grant for Historical Photographic Research, 3x8 Nature Artist-in-Residence Fellowship in Lecce, Italy, Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship, Firecracker Photographic Grant, and the Film Photo Award. She has published three award-winning photo books: Keeper of the Hearth (2020); Dairy Character, winner of the 2021 $5,000 Light Work Book Award; and Past Paper Present Marks, her collaboration with Jennifer Garza-Cuen, which received a $5,000 Rauschenberg Publication Grant.
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is an artist and educator based in Texas. She is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. She has also received fellowships to attend artist residencies at Light Work, Ucross, Oxbow, Hambidge, Brush Creek, and the Vermont Studio Center. Public collections include the RISD Museum, Light Work, The Do Good Fund, and the New Mexico History Museum. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in journals such as Dear Dave, Contact Sheet, Musée, Papiers Paris, Blink, PDN, NR Magazine UK, Der Greif Germany, The Photo Review, and Conveyor.
David Campany is a writer, editor, and curator.
Event Price
This program is free with a suggested donation of $5.
About the Program Format
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