A Stitching Perspectives Class: WeMend

Name: A Stitching Perspectives Class: WeMend
Start: 2024-10-26T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-26T13:00:00+01:00
Location: 13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

13 Perth Road, DD1 4HT Dundee, United Kingdom | Dundee, SC

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.
In our fragmented times, WeMend offers time and space to slow down – to commune, converse, repair and connect - individually and collectively contemplate on both material and non-materials matters in our lives.
This participatory work was first included in the exhibition Womanifesto: Flowing Connections at Bangkok Art & Culture Center from September to December 2023, and as a continuation further community workshops have set up in Thailand (Bangkok and Udon Thani), Baroda (India) and within community spaces in UAE.
The collectively made fabric piece made at Cooper Gallery will be sent to Womanifesto to be joined with groups working in Bangkok, Kumphawapi NE Thailand, Baroda.
These cloth fragments will come together to form a continuous piece, and will be installed as a shelter-like structure in future exhibitions, where visitors are invited to continue attaching patches and make the fabric grow. The work will be part of Sharjah Biennale 16, opening February 2025.
Engaging in this meditative hands-on activity with sewing at its core, is to nurture linkages with each other and in turn with all that surrounds us.
This workshop forms part of the free curriculum of events for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #4 Outside the Circle.
SIGN-UP
Event is free and open to all to attend. Sign-up for a free space via Eventbrite. Link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-stitching-perspectives-class-wemend-tickets-1007615815027?aff=oddtdtcreator
PARTICIPANT INFO
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.
Womanifesto invite you to
- Gather off-cut (unused) pieces of fabrics from your locality (tailoring shops and designers) and bring your own leftover/discarded pieces of cloth carrying personal stories, to add to the basket of fabrics to be shared with fellow participants to use
- Pick any of the fabric pieces from the gallery and hand-sew them to form a larger connected piece
- Needles and thread will be available but please feel free to bring your own if you prefer
- You can patch, embroider etc. The process is open to what you would like to do – just have fun!
- After the workshop you can also continue patching at home and then bring it back and attach it to the main one taking shape collectively in the gallery
BIOGRAPHY
WeMend is a project by Womanifesto – an International Art Exchange (Thailand).
Womanifesto 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 lasuemo (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.
ACCESS
The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.
Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]