A Stitching Perspectives Class: WeMend

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Womanifesto, a Thailand based women artists collective invite you to participate on their 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. 

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. 

For A Stitching Perspectives Class, Womanifesto will join us remotely to introduce WeMendand 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 participatory work was first included in the exhibition Womanifesto: Flowing Connections at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre 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.