A Stitching Perspectives Class: WeMend

Womanifesto invite you to participate on the ongoing project ‘WeMend’ that encourages people to come together to sew, embroider, patch and upcycle pieces of fabric into growing cloth work forming cross-border connections.

For A Stitiching Perspectives Class, Womanifesto will join us remotely to introduce WeMend and invite us to get involved, sewing, mending and joining fabric pieces together, sharing their stories, histories and our different perspectives around tables in the exhibition space of The Ignorant Art School.

This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for

WeMend is an ongoing social and workshop space inviting visitors and community groups to join in the ongoing activity to sew/embroider/patch/upcycle pieces of fabric together.

WeMend is a project by Womanifesto – an International Art Exchange (Thailand).
started out by hosting gatherings biannually from 1997 to build an international platform for women living in Thailand. It was first established by a group of women artists, writers and activists following an exhibition titled Tradisexion held in Bangkok in 1995. Womanifesto went on to develop a diverse range of activities spanning community-based workshops, publication and internet-related projects, workshops and residencies, and more recently a regular online meeting point entitled (the last Sunday of each month).

Operating as a loose consortium of female practitioners, the collective is committed to supporting women’s practice through innovative projects that respond flexibly to the unfolding life events of the key members. Its organisational structure is centred around hospitality and collective generosity.

Since 2019, the Womanifesto Archives have been exhibited in multiple cities including Bangkok, Sydney and Hong Kong. In 2022, Womanifesto was featured in Documenta 15. In 2023, Nitaya established Baan Womanifesto in Udon Thani. This is Womanifesto’s first permanent space dedicated to its projects and wider engagement with the local community. Womanifesto held its first retrospective exhibition in Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in 2023.
www.womanifesto.com

About the exhibition

Outside the Circle, is an exhibition and event programme inspired by and generated from feminist and queer movements since the beginning of the 20th century that foregrounds intersectional feminist and queer strategies of radical emancipation, resistance, survival, and collective action as critical and pedagogical ‘ruptures’ in our lived experience. It is the fourth iteration of ongoing programme, .

Host or Publisher Cooper Gallery