Hungry Eyes
with
Bianca Pedrina
#photography #👀 #dérive
Cities are shaped by ideologies, power structures, and undergo constant negotiation between their planners and their users. Even in instances where the urban environment appears coherent or controlled, traces of time, contradictions and accidental occurrences remain.
Using photography and other forms of observation, this workshop explores these realities within the built environment. Drawing on psychogeography, strollology and other methods of urban observation, we move through the city at a slower pace, approaching architecture as a cultural, political and lived environment rather than a fixed construct. Particular attention will be given to overlooked details, temporary situations, urban objects, and the stories embedded within them.
Photography serves both as a tool for observation and a means of questioning the typical representation of architecture and urban spaces. Alongside a shared look at the history of architectural photography, the workshop takes a playful approach, focusing less on technical mastery or image editing and more on photography as a way of exploring and engaging with the city.
Themes of time, resistance, appropriation, humour and improvisation in everyday urban life are explored through readings and discussions from the fields of art and architectural theory, anthropology, and urban studies.
Each participant will develop a photographic project inspired by a detail, object, phenomenon or situation encountered in Vienna. Experimental and hybrid approaches are encouraged, allowing photography to intersect with text, video, objects or other media where appropriate.
Bianca Pedrina is a Swiss-Austrian artist and photographer. At the centre of her work is the investigation and documentation of architecture and urban spaces, asking questions about the economic, historical and social conditions of built space.
Unlike traditional architectural photographers, she does not seek the untouched and well-planned, but rather that which has been improperly transformed by nature (which we are part of). Where most see only a loss of quality, Pedrina discovers the possibility of anarchy, higher justice, and humour.
https://biancapedrina.com
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MEDIA Photography, Text
︎︎︎ LOCATION indoors and outdoors
︎︎︎ TEACHING LANGUAGE English
︎︎︎ WHAT TO BRING Digital Camera, Laptop, Curiosity
︎︎︎ REQUIREMENTS no specific requirements
︎︎︎ MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 6
︎︎︎ LOCATION indoors and outdoors
︎︎︎ TEACHING LANGUAGE English
︎︎︎ WHAT TO BRING Digital Camera, Laptop, Curiosity
︎︎︎ REQUIREMENTS no specific requirements
︎︎︎ MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 6