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 and displacement. The sculptural weaving, which features in the moving portrait, acts as a consequent reminder of the colonial […]
To Make (Our) Work Song is a film installation that explores the intimate relationship between manual labour and song, and the possibility of creating oral traditions today. Inspired by the Scottish Gaelic ‘Waulking Song’, the project collaboratively creates a new ‘work song’. It examines the traditional role of women in labour and explores ways to […]
