Part free-school lectures on radical textiles, part sewing skill-share, part collective embroidery practice which took place over three sessions in July and August 2025.
The goal was to share ideas and artists relevant to radicality and protest, new ways of being in the world, and transmitting messages through fabric, and also to make a radical textile together and talk through the possibilities of crafts, code, and building new lexicons of support and resistance. Continuing my practice of building connection through craft and embroidery, this program centered feminism, activism, sharing knowledge and imagining new worlds.
Some people came to only one or two sessions for the lecture and embroidery skill-share aspects, while a small group committed to working together over the duration of the project.
This group planned the the banner-like textile together around the unifying message “Bring Everyone to the Table”, combining applique flowers associated with resistance movements, text, and other elements that resonated with individual participants’ identities. Conversation during the crafting sessions mostly focused on women’s physical and mental health, sexuality, and safety in public spaces. Despite adding a fourth craft session the textile wasn’t completed, and will now likely take on a different form, to be finished at Casino.
I plan to expand on the lectures and turn them into a more comprehensive curriculum online. In the meantime, the lectures can be viewed ︎ here.
The goal was to share ideas and artists relevant to radicality and protest, new ways of being in the world, and transmitting messages through fabric, and also to make a radical textile together and talk through the possibilities of crafts, code, and building new lexicons of support and resistance. Continuing my practice of building connection through craft and embroidery, this program centered feminism, activism, sharing knowledge and imagining new worlds.
Some people came to only one or two sessions for the lecture and embroidery skill-share aspects, while a small group committed to working together over the duration of the project.
This group planned the the banner-like textile together around the unifying message “Bring Everyone to the Table”, combining applique flowers associated with resistance movements, text, and other elements that resonated with individual participants’ identities. Conversation during the crafting sessions mostly focused on women’s physical and mental health, sexuality, and safety in public spaces. Despite adding a fourth craft session the textile wasn’t completed, and will now likely take on a different form, to be finished at Casino.
I plan to expand on the lectures and turn them into a more comprehensive curriculum online. In the meantime, the lectures can be viewed ︎ here.
Casino is a self-mnaged social center and mutual aid cafe in Berlin, Germany
*Pingu here is performing a certain gender-coded failure. But craft isn't just about pouring glitter on your anger and powerlessness in this world
I distributed basic embroidery instructions and Feral Fabric zines to everyone who attended.
Lectures:
1. The Radical Domestic: Strategies and Symbols in Revolutionizing Craft
2. Making Niche Art as the World Burns
3. Bring Everyone to the Table