[WORKSHOP] The Ghostly Image
April 23 | 13:00 - 16:00
Members: Casper Sutton-Fosman
Clusters: Milieux
Join us for The Ghostly Image, the third workshop of our “Reimagining Research” Spring Workshop Series!
From creating shared 3-D immersive virtual galleries, exploring creative structures through origami, examining archiving practices through bio-plastics, materializing the materiality of the image via emulsion lifting and discovering the new facilities and equipment at LePARC’s revamped Performance Lab, we have an exciting array of ways to renew and reimagine your research methodologies and practices.
Spaces are limited. Please RSVP to Marc Beaulieu marc.beaulieu@concordia.ca and include within the subject line “Ghostly Image”.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
This workshop will allow participants to re-imagine and transform photographs, digital images and other works through Polaroid emulsion lifts. Exploring the materiality of film and photographic practice, participants will work directly with the image of their choosing, lifting, folding, stretching and tearing it. The process of emulsion lifting briefly reduces the image to a ghostly film to then be bonded to another material such as paper, cardboard, or fabric. This physical manipulation of imagery provides a framework to discuss transparencies/opacities of identity and selfhood, thinking through ideas of disclosure and (mis)recognition.
Participants are invited to bring pre-existing digital images that can be printed on Polaroid film, or to take photos on site to experiment with the process.
ABOUT CASPER SUTTON-FOSMAN:
Casper Sutton-Fosman is a curator, artist and academic based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, also known as Montreal. Their work engages with queer and disabled relationships to lens-based art and image capture technology, moving through complex temporalities and webs of connection. They hold an MFA from OCAD University and are a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University.
April 23, 2026
1 – 4 PM
MilieuxMake Space EV 10.825