Seminar 3: 24 - 26 April 2024

With Leire Vergara and guests Grant Watson and Hamid El Kanbouhi

Chronicles: Vlio Velema , Nada Gambier, Celeste Perret

Midterm evaluations (individual): lead by Leire and taking place throughout the COOP days

Texts:

• Jean Vaccarro: Feelings and Fractals: Woolly Ecologies of Transgender
• Grant Watson and Pennina Barnett: Interview
• Grant Watson and East London Textile Arts: Interview
• Grant Watson and Christine Checinska: Interview
• Review of Stitch In Time by David Medala
• Leire Vergara: Textile Spectrum
• Karen Barad: Troubling Time/s and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable

Side Bibliography:

• Sarat Maharaj: Arachne’s Genre: Towards Inter-Cultural Studies in Textiles
• Julia Bryan-Wilson: Fray, Textiles and Art and Politics
• Joseph McBrinn: Needlework and the creation of masculinities: ‘The prick of patriarchy’ in Queering the Subversive Stitch

Wednesday 24

Morning:

• Session with Grant Watson and Leire Vergara on Stitching, Politics of Textiles and Textiles Spectrality
• Stitch In Time Exercise

Afternoon: Continuing with the session and the exercise outside in the landscape. Collective reading of “the script” written in between weeks, sharing what we have done with the stitching in between weeks.

Evening: Palestine Teach Out by COOP: Assembling Land

Thursday 25

Morning: Shooting (incorporating locations, actions and the script)

• Student-led: Davide La Montagna

• Student-led: Ivčo Ružić

Afternoon: Shooting (incorporating locations, actions and the script)

• Landscape Shooting through Scouting Locations (Location-in-reverse)

Evening: Recap of the day – plans for the next

Friday 26

Morning: Session with Hamid El Kanbouhi

Afternoon: Shooting (incorporating locations, actions and the script). Shooting the stitching pieces done in between weeks. Discussion and Planning for the final project.

Evening: Recap of the day – plans for May Confluence

Seminar 2: 5 - 8 March 2024

With Marwa Arsanios, Leire Vergara, Leon Filter and guest Eyal Sivan

Chronicles: Anna Buyvid, Mia Tamme

Texts:

• Bell Hooks: Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand
• Rozsika Parker: The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
• Eyal Sivan: L’Europe n’a rien à se reprocher
• Antonia Majaca and Eyal Sivan: Montage Against All Odds

Tuesday 5

Morning:

• Presenting and reading of collective Texts
• Student-led: Nada Gambier (90 minutes)

Afternoon: Discussion on prepared texts and films

Evening: Film screening

Wednesday 6

Day with Eyal Sivan

Thursday 7th 

Morning:

• Student-led: Mia Tamme
• Student-led: Christelle Makris

Afternoon: Building a Set: Embroidery Montage Workshop

Evening: Film Screening

Friday 8

Morning: Embroidery Montage Workshop Continuation

Afternoon:

• Collective recording of a Scene
• Watching all Material

Evening: Dark Matter Cinema Tarot Session

Seminar 1: 23 - 26 January 2024

Tuesday 23^rd

Morning and Afternoon:

• Presentations of practices of all participants
• Practicalities and Logistics

Evening:

Film screening and discussion

Wednesday 24th

Morning:

Reading Return to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani

Afternoon:

• Walk
• Writing Exercise “capturing the present”
• Reading What is Anarchism? From Direct Action by David Graeber
• Writing exercise – “As if the state does not exist”

Evening:  

Film screening and discussion

Thursday 25th

Morning:

Writing exercise – stream of consciousness

Afternoon:

Filming of drafts in groups

Evening:

Film screening and discussion

Friday 26^th

Morning:

Continuation of filming drafts in groups

Afternoon:

Continuation of filming drafts in groups and screening of Footage

Evening:

Wrap up

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