What do we leave behind when we come together? Creative workshop
During the workshop, participants are asked to create a collective sculpture by sewing together different fabrics from previous iterations of the same project. Miriam Poletti - co-author of the project, will facilitate the workshop, instructing participants in the use of the sewing machine and other hand sewing techniques. However, the aim is to develop collaborations between participants and give them the opportunity to help each other in the creative process.
Each participant becomes a co-author of the collective artwork and their names will be included in the list of authors on display in the exhibition Songs of Uprising.
A multi-sensory interactive installation developed in collaboration between artists and activists abstraqt and Miriam Poletti.
Taking place in the midst of ongoing and spreading military aggressions and genocides around the world, the project invites the audience to explore the limits and potential of the collective body created in art spaces. To confront the contradictions of feeling the pleasure of touch, comfort, and physical presence with one another, and to reflect on the idea of community considering ways to include those who are currently excluded from it.
The installation consists of a soft sculpture, a soundtrack, a video, and an interactive system that responds to the movements and touches between the visitors’ bodies, creating sound and visual effects. The tactile group interaction is designed to shift the focus of awareness between sonic, visual, and emotional elements that are present or excluded from the immediate physical environment of the piece.
Prior to the launch of the installation, Miriam Poletti facilitates a workshop to collectively create a soft textile sculpture, with the aim to display it as part of the installation. The workshop serves as a way to activate a temporary community, fostering creativity and collaboration between participants.
The workshop is offered on a donation basis as a fundraiser for Palestinian families living in Gaza. In this way, the work explores in a concrete way the capacity of art to create networks of care