The hunters occupy the cave wall and the mind, but what they actually did to stay alive was gather seeds, roots, sprouts, berries, grains, adding bugs and mollusks and netting or snaring birds, fish, games. Gathered with a leaf, a gourd, a net, a bag, a sling, a container. A holder. A recipient. A cultural invention. A story.

Visual by Evey Kwong

DIS/ENTANGLED

Iterative design workshop, 2022
⭢ Maastricht Institute of Arts

‘Dis/Entangled’ is a creative weaving workshop with unlearning the traditional basket-weaving techniques to discover new ways to making forms with materials and surfaces. Mapping physicality of materials and human sentiments, we explore experimental ways of building forms and juxtaposing colours and patterns using twining and open-base weave. 

Experimentation is the central focus of the workshop. Participants are given the freedom to explore possibilities on what woven materials could do – or be stretched, within or beyond their boundaries. The workshop involves breaking out of one's own over-thinking, discovering one's own way of building form and surfaces.

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This program is sponsored by Crafts Council Nederland and Zuyd Hogeschool. Among other tutors invited were Amandine David, Jeanny Bouwen and Marieke Kranenburg.

The hunters occupy the cave wall and the mind, but what they actually did to stay alive was gather seeds, roots, sprouts, berries, grains, adding bugs and mollusks and netting or snaring birds, fish, games. Gathered with a leaf, a gourd, a net, a bag, a sling, a container. A holder.
A recipient. A cultural invention. A story.

Impression of the presentation and wrap-up.


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Thanks to all students involved for their great efforts: Berend Hoge, Thu Van Nguyen, Nikola Czerwińska, Lotte Schreurs, Sheila Shathavi.