LONGING: Parallel programme

In parallel with the exhibition "LONGING – woven strands, woven stories", you are given the opportunity to meet the artists and curator, and to take part in a creative workshop!
Past event
Past event
14 May 2022
12 Jun 2022
Location:
Institut Suédois, Rue Payenne, Paris, France
Category:
At the Institut Suédois
Collage of six woven artworks of the six presented artists.
Collage from left to right: Kristina Müntzing, Detail of Don’t quit your dayjob. Photo Kalle Brolin // Khao of Mark Corfield-Moore. © Mark Corfield-Moore, courtesy of Cob Gallery // Bernhard 2,5 ans of Emelie Röndahl. All rights reserved. // Xuxuma of Mariana Silva Varela. Photo Anna Drvnik // Blanket for Sharing of Julia Bland. Photo Adam Reich // Detail of WakimonkeySumbawaat II. Photo Côme Touvay

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Meet the artists and curator
14.05.2022 / 19:00 – 20:30
Five artists – Julia Bland, Kristina MĂĽntzing, Emelie Röndahl, Mariana Silva Varela and CĂ´me Touvay – will be talking to the art weaver Marcia Harvey Isaksson, who curated the exhibition. The event will be an opportunity to talk about the origins and themes of the project, the creative processes involved and the work of each artist.
In partnership with the European Night of Museums.
In English // Admission free while seats last.

Hang on to the thread! Band weaving workshop // Open day
12.06.2022 / 15:00 – 18:00
Weaving artists Mariana Silva Varela and CĂ´me Touvay are offering a weaving workshop open to all. Led by students from various Parisian schools of applied arts, this workshop offers the opportunity to try band weaving, an ancestral and universal practice proposed here in exercise through Swedish looms.
Admission free while seats last.

Weavers discuss their craft
12.06.2022 / 18:00 – 19:30
Art weavers Mariana Silva Varela and CĂ´me Touvay discuss their work, their sources of inspiration and the history of weaving with Sophie Desrosiers, a historian and anthropologist specialising in textiles who lectures at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).
In French // Admission free while seats last.

Impulsion ! Festival
02.07.2022 + 03.07.2022
The ten choreographers taking part in the Impulsion ! festival programme present excerpts from their creations and educational initiatives in the interior and garden of the Institut Suédois, forming a dialogue with the exhibited artworks.
In collaboration with La Fabrique de la Danse.
Admission free while space lasts.

In collaboration with The Swedish Crafts Centre (Konsthantverkscentrum), with support of Révélations, International Biennial of Crafts and Creation.