Join artists Anamaya Farthing-Kohl and Nathalie Wuerth at The Galleries at Moore for a two-day workshop June 4 though June 5 from 10:30 am - 2 pm in conjunction with SKÄL /ɧɛːl/ for Weaving. Lunch and all materials are provided. Registration is required.
The basic technique of weaving is the crossing of the warp and the weft. In Swedish, this crossing of the warp of the weft makes a skäl. Skäl also means the crossroads (vägskäl), which is the moment of judgment or the weighing process in decision making, another point of intersection. This intersection is the tension that holds the objects in place. If there is no cross, there is no friction, if there is no difference, there is no tension. Nathalie Wuerth and Anamaya Farthing-Kohl’s work together combines the practical labor of weaving with theoretical discussions of feminisms and intersectionality. They consider working together as a form of skäl.
SKÄL /ɧɛːl/ for Weaving is a collaborative investigation where the artists have researched bric-á-brac construction, standardization, difference, and tension. Their project approaches weaving both as a craft and a method to think through their cosmologies of things and tale telling through things.
Inspired by Audre Lorde’s text "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House," artists Farthing-Kohl and Wuerth will lead a workshop that engages social space between things with the skäl of weaving. After reading Lorde's text and sharing an object they consider a master's tool, attendees will explore skäl and the cosmology of things—things that we order and the things that order us—as an embodied practice and collectively construct narratives within three-dimensional space.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anamaya Farthing-Kohl (Bolivia, 1988) works in collaboration with the public, often asking for help in defining, circulating, or discovering her practice. She received a BFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2011), and a Fulbright to study in SOMA’s Educational Program (2014). She has had solo shows at Refugio Para Emergencias Visuales, Galería 10,000, Crater Invertido, and SOMA in Mexico City, and CASA TENEMOS in Buenos Aires. Farthing-Kohl was a resident at Kiosko in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. She received a Stockholm Stads grant to work in collaboration with Nathalie Wuerth (2019) and was nominated for a fellowship at Arts Matters Foundation (2018). She was a fellow at the Luminary in Saint Louis, Missouri, (2017) and resident at TransAcciones Utópicas Centro Rural de Arte, Cazón, Argentina (2016). In 2015, she received an AMEXICD grant from the Mexican Government. She has shown her work internationally participating in group shows in Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Sweden, Japan, and the United States.
Nathalie Wuerth (Sweden, 1969) is a project-based artist based in Stockholm. She received a MFA from Konstfack, Sweden in 2011 and a BFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2009. Her work engages with art as social practice and discusses intimate aspects of everyday life from an intersectional feminist perspective, addressing questions of survival and dignity, work and value. Wuerth has participated in shows at The New School (2022), Werkhalle in Dortmund, Germany (2019), Primary in Nottingham, UK (2018), Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden (2017), Acud Macht Neu in Berlin, Germany (2016) and Godsbanen in Aarhus (2015). She has been a resident at LMCC, NYC, USA (2021), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2021), ERROR, Puebla, Mexico (2019), NKF, Stockholm, Sweden (2019), Primary, Nottingham, UK (2018), ZKU, Berlin, Germany (2017) and Centro Rural de Arte, Cazón, Argentina (2014).
