Nocturnal Gardens: Cyanotype Workshop
Hosted by Bernice Mulenga
Nocturnal Gardens is a cyanotype and collage workshop that explores Black queer nightlife, intimacy, and joy as practices of care hosted by artist Bernice Mulenga. Drawing from the metaphor of the garden, participants are invited to reimagine moments of closeness, movement, and touch, often experienced in the dark, as sites of nourishment, rest and collective tending. Using cyanotype, a sun-activated photographic process, participants will work with images, fabric, and water to create layered blue-toned prints.
The workshop centers joy not as spectacle, but as an intentional, sustaining practice, one that is cultivated through intimacy, slowness, and care. Through making, participants will consider how nightlife, touch, and presence function as living archives, and how creative processes can hold space for tenderness, pleasure, and possibility. This workshop is suitable for artists, photographers, and community members of all levels. No prior experience with cyanotype is needed.
Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese artist and photographer based in London. Their work, featured in Watering a Black Garden, explores archiving, documentation, and Black queer communities, including the long-term project #friendsonfilm, which records evolving personal and collective histories. Informed by queer, postcolonial, and critical race theory, Mulenga addresses structural inequities in the UK arts and education sectors and leads workshops fostering alternative learning, knowledge sharing, and collective engagement.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
2.00PM-5:00PM
@ OSCAM | Bijlmerplein 110, 1102 DB, Amsterdam