2.1. Three Grandmothers Excerpt
Labour
Gather your spools, let your hair down for me. Gently. Here. Undo
Raisa Kabir
“The performance in the moving portrait is a kind of queer ‘drag’ on embodying South Asian narratives. A performed fantasy of the craft labour/er. As this weaver doesn’t really exist in any land or geography. The moving portrait is set in an idea of nature ⟶
As part of the CCA Glasgow exhibition, ambi, Raisa Kabir presents her new moving portrait and sculpture work responding to the textile geographies of labour between Kashmiri woven shawls, Paisley, Scotland, textile archives, and South Asian diasporic migration ⟶
Small Black Reptile vol II
This is the second issue of Small Black Reptile, a CCA publication. Small Black Reptile is a response to the need for more outlets for critical writing in Scotland. In particular, there’s a need for various platforms where writers can develop an argument on a specific issue, or consider ideas around an exhibition in greater length than a magazine review. ⟶
The Congest & The Square: Land, labour and a missing carpet
Pursuing a line of research connected with the manufacture of carpets in the late 19th and early 20th century, Fiona Jardine, as part of the CCA exhibition ambi, has considered the relationship between space, place and labour, selecting objects for display that suggest passage between hand-plaited rush, hand-painted designs on paper and machine woven ‘tapestry’. ⟶
