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W/WDWB?: Narva | 2018

Phase One

2018

Wear/Where do We Belong? is a multi-year research and creation project which unravels sets of questions and experiences that deal with cultural crossings and identity. It explores ways in which we become part of the local, pushing and blurring the prescriptive borderlines while building connections and restoring roots between self and surroundings.

Phase One took place in Estonia at the Narva Arts Residency, in the former residence of the Kreenholm Textile Manufacture, July-August 2018.

Participation in this residency was made possible by grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia.

Photos: Ingel Vaikla

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The Looms

Tools reflecting on the post-industrial ambience of the factory space and the machine in obsolescence.

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Impolite / Polite

A pairing of industrial paper weavings representing an active phase of the Looms.

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Study for Towers: ghost in the machine

Inspired by the discarded machinery in the abandoned Kreenholm Manufacture; conflating the architecture of industrialisation with the process of Jacquard weaving (a proto-computer) embedding patterns as narrative codes.

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A Band Called Kreenholm

These masks represent animal archetypes communicating pan human identities combined with generic workwear costumes selected from the collection of research garments found in Narva.