Weave and Construct

textile explorations of cairo neighbourhoods

An embroidery mapping workshop exploring the intersection between the slowness of craft and the fastness of urban development in of Cairo.

Members

  • mohamed
  • ramshadrashid
  • Adel Radwan
  • albino
  • Steffi Mack
  • irenner
  • aviv
  • Rania
  • vahida

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Events

 

ABORDANDO BON PASTOR

como parte de la expo "L'un i el multiple" en La Capella, vamos a dar una serie de talleres gratuitos en Poble Nou (en Hangar) y en la calle en el barrio de Bon Pastor.
Estáis todos invitados a bordar, merendar y conocer el barrio de Bon Pastor con nosotros. Lo haremos dibujando lo que vemos en nuestro entorno con aguja y hilo.

el calendario de actividades:

11 de mayo, martes de 18h a 20h
la base del bordado. aprenderemos la técnica mas sencilla (lo llamamos bordado a lo punky). empezaremos en cámara lenta, lentísima, nos fundiremos con el grano del tejido volviéndonos microscopicos, poco a poco haciendo un zoom-out hasta tomar perspectiva de la realidad alrededor nuestro. haremos una mini-excursión y aprenderemos a bordar palabras.

13 de mayo, jueves de 18h a 20h
empezaremos a dibujar cosas que vemos, aprenderemos algún punto mas. saldremos a una mini-excursión y después la documentaremos creando una pieza en común.
las piezas de multi-autoría estarán expuestas en la capella como parte de la expo / 'L'un i el múltiple'/

14 de mayo, viernes
16h merienda. fiestas de Bon Pastor
20h inauguración de L'un i el Múltiple. La Capella

15 de mayo, sábado
15-17h inicio taller en Bon Pastor
18h Presentación del taller en La Capella

desde el lunes 16 hasta el sábado 22 de mayo

talleres en Bon Pastor
cada día 17h-19h

REAL-TIME DOCUMENTARY EMBROIDERY
Or, why is it that we feel that embroidery is the best method for documenting reality?
Using real-time documentary embroidery (with no sketches or previous planning) is a challenge in the field of drawing, regarding the representation of reality. The restrictions imposed by the technique: the slowness of constructing a line, one stitch at a time, forces us to economize and abstract, limiting our choices, making us consider and select the most important thing to represent.
By this we are forced to follow a process of encrypting, creating symbolic graphics where details and decorations are considered excess. We find ourselves summarizing and combining elements for maximum capacity of transmitting information. At the same time, the slowness of the proceedings, is considered an advantage, being that it gives us the opportunity to spend some time together on the street, where the events, which are the object of our interest, take place. We get together to embroider, forming a group in which we exchange opinions and impressions. Our activity attracts the attention of passers-by. Intrigued by our work they approach. We let them intervene, adding their suggestions and point of view. In this way, we create a base where we integrate in our environment, giving us a heightened capacity for observation, for perceiving social dynamics and for learning.
Being that we are a group of 'strangers' engaged in an uncommon activity in public space, puts us under the scrutiny of the public, creating a new balance between 'subject' and 'documenter', a bi-directionality where the observer is also observed. As part of this new balance the 'documenter' becomes 'subject', having to respond to questions and events that come up in the social environment.
As a result of spending more time in public space, real-time documentary embroidery promotes a consequential attitude and a more in-depth knowledge of the social reality being documented.

Blog Posts

vahida

Week of documentary embroidery with Cruilles // Barcelona



From 02 to 06th of July we held documentary embroidery sessions with a group of neighbors from Escudellers Blancs Street of Barcelona. Cruilles is a group of neighbors proclaiming themselves an endangered species. they hold weekly meetings and chats on the street, organising poetry events, popular parties, etc.…



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Posted by vahida on July 19, 2009 at 10:00pm

aviv

Weave&Construct in Bristol



Vahida and me have spent the last week in Bristol, England embroidering on the street in Stokes Croft an interesting neighborhood which is in danger of being 'redeveloped'. we have been making a collective embroidered portrait of this neighborhood, asking people to draw things for us on pieces of cloth which we embroider. we also embroider our own impressions. we've been doing this with a group of people as parts of a festival called the Drawing… Continue

Posted by aviv on May 2, 2009 at 7:52pm

vahida

real-time documentary embroidery workshop // Bristol

learn why embroidery is the best way to document reality.

capture the changes in your neighborhood on a piece of cloth



on may 1st (workers day), Weave&Construct will organize an all day embroidery action from 11- 4pm.



Weave&Construct, an embroidery workshop, is also real time documentary.

Come and explore an area of the city where transformation is coming.

we will spend time sitting and embroidering our… Continue

Posted by vahida on April 25, 2009 at 9:30am

Rania

[ Draft ]

found mp3 for the song i stitched on my scarf/book-like embroidery last November .

which is rare cause it's from the late 70s and hardly in the air anymore



about streets .. people's lives

lyrics are quite distinctive ..written by Salah Jahin







so i backed up some of our photos here ( mostly in Dahab Island) as well as part of Albino's documentary and used windows movie maker to creat a… Continue

Posted by Rania on February 6, 2009 at 11:16am — 4 Comments

aviv

post-script: crochet out of plastic bags



after the rush of the 'real-time documentary embroidery' workshop, we decided to relax a little bit....

...doing another workshop!

again in public space, right in front of Townhouse Gallery.

we set out to learn how to recycle old plastic bags and to crochet them into new creations.

three sessions were held.

this workshop was cut short being that both vahida and aviv had to leave.

TO BE… Continue

Posted by aviv on December 8, 2008 at 9:25am

 
 
 

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