Weaving workshop facilitated by Dr Miriam von Shantz from Konstfack, Stockholm, invites participants to gather in a shared space, to sit together, work with their hands and engage in collective reflection.
The participants will be invited to use materials and techniques from traditional Northern Swedish rural root craft to create a collective piece that interlaces personal as well as shared women’s histories. Focusing on multisensory forms of knowledge that fall outside established norms and that approach the world from marginalised perspectives, the question of a collective women’s knowledge will be explored. Participants will sit together around a table and make small root objects while sharing stories orally. These individual pieces will then be assembled into a larger woven structure using roots, threads and natural textures as primary materials. Central to this workshop is creating a space where participants can reflect together on how our lives interconnect and how we co-create meanings and to recognize patterns and rhythms not only as aesthetic forms, but as carriers of memory and ways of knowing and being.
Remixing Folk Feminisms 