Tutor: Susan Stockwell

Host: Hangzhou Triennial of Fibre Art, Varbanov Wall Hanging Institute

Time: 30th, Oct. 2015 (Friday)   10:00-16:30

Gathering Time: 30th, Oct. 2015   10:00

Assembly Place: Building 6 beside the pond, Varbanov Wall Hanging Institute

Address: China Academy of Art, No.218, Nanshan Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou

Map, a kind of international self-explantory language, is a schematic diagram of territory and can link the world as a whole. Daily use of map is to regard it as a source of location, routes, network and boundary. It also offers us a way to describe and understand where we cannot touch, from the air line in the sky to one’s thinking model. It means a method to collect, command and record knowledge. Each map is organised by colours indicating political, cultural and social conditions or imaginative experience of mappers.

British artist Susan Stockwell will lead the FAB-LAB Workshop to co-scale an imaginative map of Hangzhou on 30th, Oct. 2015.

 
Workshop Procedure

10:00 – 10:15 Gather and announce all-day arrangements

10:15 – 11:30 Visit the West Lake and surrounding areas with artists

12:00 – 13:30 Back to the workshop to discuss and mull the relationship between visiting and mapping. What is a map? How can we use materials to combine map with daily weaving skills?

13:30 – 16:30 Free creating under the guidance of Stockwell. What does it mean of the visiting? Can the visiting unveil their feelings and memories of Hangzhou? How to connect the present with the past?

Workshop Supply

Simple audio equipment

Sketchbooks, pencils, painting materials, charcoal crayons and chalks                                                                                     

Paper and fibre materials

Poster paint and brushes

Sewing materials, needles, threads, cloths, etc.

Information & Sign Up

Ms. Wang Xijing

Email: wangxijing25@qq.com

Phone: +86-18768184667

Wechat: hzfiberart （杭州纤维艺术三年展）