Thursday, March 6th and Friday, March 7th between 14.00 and 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5

Textile art workshop
Emeli Röndahl (Sweden): Bloody Norms

I started to explore the aesthetic of wounds six months ago, and since then I see them everywhere. For me, the wound is a metaphore and a symbol, a sign, a map; my own wounds and the wounds of the collective memory. To live outside the norm, outside of the heteronormative institution, brings me hapiness and community, but as soon as I have to face that other reality again (at the hospital, at work, on the tram home late Friday nights) I’m drained of my powers and reminded of my vulnerability. It hurts and I’m often afraid.

Judith Butler says that »violence is beyond all doubt the worst possible touch«. I know she means ALL violence: a system of norms that suppress us and forces us to act in our defence, or loose ourselves to the banal discrimination of everyday life.

In this workshop I will introduce you to my techniques of creating bloody wounds, bruises, scratches and chafes. We will be working with fabric, clothes, color, glue, lacquer, hair, thread and embroidery. We will create wound-patches, street-art wounds and folklore wounds. My own bloody handicraft.

Emelie Röndahl

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Emelie Röndahl is a textile art student at the Academy of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The workshop is free, in English and open for anybody interested. Please, let us know until March 2nd that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Bloody norms).