(Tie time in unknown knots) Warping Time, Wefting song, Aurora Pellizzi
WARPING TIME, WEFTING SONG Saturday, 11th April 2015
3-7 p.m Aurora Pellizzi and Natalia Valencia A workshop led by artist Aurora Pellizzi and curator Natalia Valencia exploring the spaces of intersection between textile and text; remapping some of the distinctions between oral and written language, weaving, drawing, text and song in order to generate new meanings and forms. Stemming from the common etymological roots of text and textile, and from their shared formal and conceptual use of symbols, pictograms, rhythm and repetition, the investigation probes their socio-political and cultural applications as vehicles for history telling and time-keeping, as methods for cultural and gender representation, and as forms of inter-generational transmission. For the workshop at L’appartement 22, we will employ Fluxus (sometimes referred to as Intermaterial) methods of cut-up and assemblage using found material as well as keywords and symbols; we will juxtapose Neo-Tifinagh and Latin alphabets stemming from their Phoenician origins to Berber textile and tattoo motifs; we will collectively construct visual, textual, and sound pieces to be broadcast in a special episode of Radio 22. We are interested in the oral form of radio frequencies as a space for intangible information exchange, as a transient curatorial platform from which to approach traditional forms of knowledge transmission, and as the source for new storytelling.
Please bring any literary, commercial, or found text materials you would like to incorporate into this exercise. RSVP: 06 25 03 92 58 appartement22.rabat@gmail.com
