November 2009
12-14 November, 19-22 November, 26-28 November (from 19h to 23h)
Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata
Open workshop for the community - construction of “framed drawings” made with strings that are based on a circular figure, which will refer to particular techniques of textile production as the Renda Tenerife and the Renda de Milão.
Felt Workshop – Traces on wool | Workshop of traditional felt – according with work developed during the Felt Workshop the artistic investigation/creation platform Formas de fazer will aim to reestablish and reinvent traditional means of felt production as a collective and ancient processes of knowledge through using wasted wool resultant from sheep-shearing. In practice, what is proposed is a workshop developed through the Cycle processdes of the wool: sheep-shearing, carding, spinning and weaving. The aim will be the development of works in felt with the recreation of traditional practices by means of contemporary visual languages. In this sense, it will be proposed to the participants to draw with colored strings on wool, creating an element that can be submitted/read as to a theme or not. These works can also be exhibited.
21 November (SATURDAY), 21H - Opening/Presentation of the project.
Drawing Spaces, Fábrica Braço de Prata
Open workshop for the community - construction of “framed drawings” made with strings that are based on a circular figure, which will refer to particular techniques of textile production as the Renda Tenerife and the Renda de Milão.
Felt Workshop – Traces on wool | Workshop of traditional felt – according with work developed during the Felt Workshop the artistic investigation/creation platform Formas de fazer will aim to reestablish and reinvent traditional means of felt production as a collective and ancient processes of knowledge through using wasted wool resultant from sheep-shearing. In practice, what is proposed is a workshop developed through the Cycle processdes of the wool: sheep-shearing, carding, spinning and weaving. The aim will be the development of works in felt with the recreation of traditional practices by means of contemporary visual languages. In this sense, it will be proposed to the participants to draw with colored strings on wool, creating an element that can be submitted/read as to a theme or not. These works can also be exhibited.
21 November (SATURDAY), 21H - Opening/Presentation of the project.
