Birke Gorm: waste & time — paper patchwork

Workshop: waste & time — paper patchwork

Thu 16.01., 17h, Kunsthalle Wien

Artist workshop with Birke Gorm at Kunsthalle Wien Atelier

Please register at: vermittlung@kunsthallewien.at

Language: German / English

Workshop fee: € 25,-
Reduced: € 15,-

The reduction applies to students, civil and military servants, apprentices and Kunsthalle Wien annual pass holders. This workshop offers a reserved contingent for holders of a "Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur" culture pass.

How do artists explore our present? How do they work and think? In the new Kunsthalle Wien Atelier, you have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with artists. Our workshop series for adults offers the opportunity to be inspired by artists, learn a variety of techniques and create your own works of art.

Birke Gorm is a Vienna-based artist whose work deals with material that is superfluous, unsaleable and therefore considered "dead" material in capitalist systems, such as worn clothes or old jute bags. She examines this material by re-appropriating domestic labour, such as sewing – to give this dead and found material new meaning.

In the workshop the technique of patchwork or "pieced work" will be used, in which pieces of fabric are sewn together to form flat patterns or motifs. We will not be using scraps of fabric, but waste paper to create patchworks: with newspapers, packaging material, wrapping paper, scraps of paper, receipts, etc we will imitate the technique and improvise: Sewing, folding, gluing, twisting, cutting, tearing, mending, knitting and embroidering. Various materials and tools are available on site.

Please bring your own waste paper!