Name: Weaving Roots
Start: 2022-09-23T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-24T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Chisenhale Studios

Weaving Roots

Unpatterned  - Curatorial Duo

Two-day art workshop offering an opportunity for healing, therapy, reflection and self-care. 
Free entrance.

Chisenhale Studios

Unpatterned Curatorial Duo in collaboration with Chisenhale Studios and Cranbrook Community Food Garden is thrilled to invite you to Weaving Roots.***Workshop Schedule:			Friday 23rd September:						11:00 - Introduction and close reading of Braiding Sweetgrass14:00 - Plant-potting in with Cranbrook Community Food Garden at Chisenhale Studios16:00 - Meditation session led by Jean-François Krebs						Saturday 24th September:						10:30 - 12:30 Installation by Yishuai Zhang running at Chisenhale Studios14:00 - Meditation session led by Jean-François Krebs at Cranbrook Community Food Garden (Mace St, E2 0RB)15:00 - Gardening in collaboration with Cranbrook Community Food Garden ***Free entrance - RSVP is needed due to a limited number of participants******Weaving Roots offers an opportunity for healing, therapy, reflection and self-care. While exploring the connection between art, nature and healing, we will experience the effectiveness of art as a healing and self-care practice. The two-day workshop will function as a safe space to reconnect with art and nature, rediscovering ourselves through a series of collective actions, including a group reading, an art installation, performative meditation sessions, gardening and artistic participatory performances.Yishuai Zhang’s installation will accompany the workshop, creating an immersive, meditative aesthetic experience. The installation is based on eastern shamanic rituals using symbols from Iching, moving images, and audio. Together, they assemble a unique space for meditation, purification and healing.Jean-François Krebs will lead two artistic guided meditation sessions that will be held in the studios (first day) and in Cranbrook Community Food Garden (second day). The combination of artistic performance, meditation, and participatory action will explore the biology and chemistry of plants in relation to our human existence, using our imagination. By enabling people to, symbolically and gently, transform into plants, we will experience the way plants convert light into matter, their unique sexuality based on openness, exuberance and inter-species collaboration.The workshop will host two collective gardening activities in collaboration with Cranbrook Community Food Garden. A joint plant-potting will take place at the studios (first day) and a communal gardening action will be held at the Garden (second day).***You can contact us by email if you have any questions: unpatterned.duo@gmail.com***Jean-François Krebs works with multimedia and experimental practices, as most of his work deals with notions of trauma, metamorphosis and healing. Kreb’s works were featured in varied group and solo exhibitions such as Crafting Ourselves organised by the LGBTQIA+ society of the Courtauld Institute (London), Centre d’Art Contemporain Tignous (France), Galerie du Granit (France), the Fruitmarket Gallery, (Edinburgh), The 8th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Melle (France), Leite Ruim, (Lisbon), The Edvo project in FIAC (France) and many more. In 2022, Krebs exhibited at Jeune Creation and in Galerie Jean-Collet in France.Yishuai Zhang is an artist, researcher and healer. Deeply influenced by Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, his works intend to explore a spectrum of resonance and dissonance between organisms and machines to enable a healing quality through human-computer interactions. Yishuai graduated from the MFA Computational Arts program at Goldsmiths. Being a member of KAVE Studio London, he has worked with various global talents on large-scale commissioned works, merging art with cutting-edge technologies. Yishuai is shortlisted for Lumen Prize 2021 and has been exhibited globally in Shanghai, Washington, Tel Aviv, Essen and London. He currently lives between UK and China.Cranbrook Community Food Garden is a communal garden based in Bethnal Green where people are invited to grow food and plants together. Composed of a large gardening space dedicated to growing vegetables, fruits, herbs and berries, Cranbrook Community Food Garden works collaboratively to create a space for the community, run by the community. Unpatterned is a curatorial duo formed by London-based curators Irene Thiella and Tamara Admoni. After first meeting during their MFA studies in the Curating programme at Goldsmiths University, they started collaborating on diverse curatorial projects, including exhibitions, artistic events and workshops. The duo aspires to form new relationships, facilitate access to art and connect people and communities through artistic and curatorial practices. Slow Curating sits at the core of Unpatterned, as their main curatorial practices focus on ideas of care, long processes of collaborations with artists and communities, mutuality and accessibility.

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