Post-apocalyptic Weaving
Residency project with Emma Wood
Latvia / 2017
In summer 2017 I had the pleasure to stay again at an artist residency at the Interdisciplinary art group SERDE in Aizpute, Latvia. This time my friend Emma, who is a professional weaver, and I studied the synthesis of electro-trash and weaving. We combined our forces to make loom prototypes out of the mechanical and electronic parts of discarded devices.
In addition to the fantastic Latvian weaving culture, an apocalyptic scenario served as our inspiration: a future world, where we are surrounded by only electro-trash. We wanted to combine this scenario with the age-old principles of weaving and rural resourcefulness, which can help to survive in harsh circumstances. Although looms have become hi-tech through industrialisation and accelerating mass production, the basic design of these useful machines that also inspired programming have remained largely the same. Our aim was to explore these principles in the context of electro-waste by building loom prototypes.
In summer 2017 I had the pleasure to stay again at an artist residency at the Interdisciplinary art group SERDE in Aizpute, Latvia. This time my friend Emma, who is a professional weaver, and I studied the synthesis of electro-trash and weaving. We combined our forces to make loom prototypes out of the mechanical and electronic parts of discarded devices.
In addition to the fantastic Latvian weaving culture, an apocalyptic scenario served as our inspiration: a future world, where we are surrounded by only electro-trash. We wanted to combine this scenario with the age-old principles of weaving and rural resourcefulness, which can help to survive in harsh circumstances. Although looms have become hi-tech through industrialisation and accelerating mass production, the basic design of these useful machines that also inspired programming have remained largely the same. Our aim was to explore these principles in the context of electro-waste by building loom prototypes.
