Mini-Workshop
Photography’s Relentless Melt: Examining Image and Time
Time is the thread which runs through every photograph we encounter, but what happens when we allow for the nature of time to become the very subject of our photographic work itself? Using Susan Sontag’s description of photography’s unique ability “to testify to time’s relentless melt” as a starting place, in this mini-workshop we will look at artists who explore the concept of time and stretch our understanding of its dimensions.
Kat Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working in photography, text, and video, currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida. Her work examines notions of intimacy, human connection, gender, community, and culture. She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) as well as Bard College (MFA).
Kat has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and ICP, and previously worked for three years as the head curator at an art consultancy in New York. In 2017 Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists' books and zines, and produces an artist interview series called “Artists Eat Ice Cream.”
Kat teaches Ways of Seeing, Photography as Pilgrimage, and other personal vision classes for StrudelmediaLive.
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