About this Event
From Protest Flag to Jiama Wishing Flag
In this workshop we will use traditional Yunnanese Jiama block-printing techniques to explore how art activism can transform from protest and direct action into long lasting resistance through collective care and rest.
Jiama甲马 is a woodcut print from Yunnan. Bai indigenous people used it in rituals, prayers and other folk activities as a way to seek peace, ward off evil, and attract protection and blessings. Jiama is a way to honour nature and communicate with the spiritual world.
We will create characters and symbols that bring resistance – a smash war machine warrior, a nap fairy, a climate justice ninja, an eat the rich guardian. We will carve these characters onto lino and use block-printing techniques to print a string of collective Jiama flags, each transmitting our collective hopes for a better world.
Keng Keng Tang (she/they) is a textile artist, activist and experimental milliner originally from Yunnan, Southwest China, now based in Glasgow. She has been involved with various community-based racial, environmental and social justice movements around Scotland and in London.Their work has centred on com- munal sharing of personal memories and collective resting, using textile prac- tices as a medium of connection. She regularly runs workshops focussed on fa- cilitating marginalised groups to story-tell through specific textile techniques - sewing, mending, weaving, printing and natural dyeing.
Strange Exchange Forum is a series of free creative workshops for and by artists working with alternative art education and creative learning. Each artist will lead a session that draws connections to the library, sharing insight into their research and practice, asking what it means to learn and teach as an artist.
We are based at 62 Moncur St, Glasgow G40 2SB.
This is a container space opposite the Pipe Factory and next to BAad. You can find us on the second floor, to the right of the staircase. The space is fully wheelchair accessible via a lift to the right of the main entrance and there is an accessible, gender neutral toilet.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strange Studio, Second floor, 62 Moncur Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
