The project is part of a collaborative research group studying different layers of the fundamental interdependency between art and technique. Against approaches in art theory and history, which operate with dichotomies between form and material, design and execution etc., we share a decisive interest in artistic processes, in
practical procedures, and the skills involved in art making as well as their tradition. Within this framework the project focuses on a select group of art techniques, defined by the co-operative implication of factors or components, which are as such neither generated nor fully controllable by the executing artist. The project’s participants will study specific procedures of printmaking and sculptural techniques in early modern period (16/17th ct.) as well as in early modernity (19th ct.). – Involved are procedures such as the casts from nature, nature prints, photograms or the chliché verre.