Embroidery is not merely a handicraft exclusive to households, but an art medium which is often overlooked. Agnes Richter in the Victorian Era embroidered her struggles with repeated and elusive stitches on a jacket, indigenous women in Central America embroider patterns on their traditional garment “Huipil” to signify their cultural identity and history. Embroidery is remarkable for its aesthetic and flexibility, and therefore its extensive usage. Throughout history, humans have been using embroidery as a channel to present their identities, or even transmit secret languages. How could we use such intimate language as embroidery, to record, share, and reshape our emotions?
In the workshop “The Discovery of A Secret Language”, Mexican artist Ane Alfeiran will invite the participants to resonate with the secret language of embroidery works in history, to allow the participants to explore embroidering lines, patterns, or even text, to create your own secret languages. In the full day workshop, the artist will tutor several basic embroidering techniques, participants will then embroider on a canvas, to hide their own resilient secret message in their creation. In the later session of the workshop the artist will guide the participants to collaborate and deliver their own secret messages, at the end to sublimate the art pieces through creation, erasure, and replication. The embroidery pieces from the participants will be eventually stitched into a giant collaborative work, and the aesthetics of embroidery will be presented.
The collaborative outcome of the workshop will be presented to the public in the HART Social Studio showcase in the end of the year.
刺繡絕非家事專屬的活計，更是一種常被忽略的藝術形式。維多利亞時期的 Agnes Richter 重疊隱晦的彩色繡線在外套上繡下掙扎，中美洲的原住民婦女會在傳統連身裙（Huipil）上縫製代表自己文化身份或歷史的圖樣。其實刺繡美觀而靈活，用途廣泛，是古今中外人們在布料上表徵身分、甚至傳達暗語的溝通媒介。我們又可以如何將刺繡作為私密的語言，紀錄、傳遞和重塑自己的情感？
在《秘密語言》工作坊中，墨西哥藝術家 Ane Alfeiran 將向大家介紹和追溯歷史刺繡作品上的暗語，繼而帶領參加者探索如何透過刺繡線條、圖案，甚至文字，製作屬於自己的秘密語言。在全日的工作坊中，藝術家會先教授基本的刺繡技巧，讓參加者在畫布上刺繡，將自己柔韌的暗語隱藏於創作中。工作坊的環節將引導參加者合作互相寄託暗語，透過創造、消除、複製等方式，轉化及昇華刺繡作品。最終參與者的刺繡將匯集縫拼成一幅大型合作作品，並展示刺繡的美學意義。
工作坊的創作最後將在年末於我們的匯舍展示中向公眾展出。
Workshop Details 活動流程
In this 2-encounters workshop, the artist instructor will first give a small talk about some of the secret language we can find on embroidery, an overlooked work of art that tells us a part of history that has passed unnoticed. Participants will be invited to create an artwork, using embroidery on their old clothings, and by hiding their own resilient secret message in their creation, they are to create, erase, reproduce and preserve memories in collaboration.
Date & Time
October 9, 2021 (Sat) and October 23, 2021 (Sat)
(Each class compiles of two sessions)
14:30 - 16:00
Participation Fee
Early-Bird Complete Experiential Journeys Package (Enrol by June 14, 2021)
HK$2,700
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Early-Bird Participation Fee (Enrol by June 14, 2021)
HK$1,100 / Class (two sessions)
Regular Participation Fee (Enrol starting from June 15, 2021)
HK$1,500 / Class (two sessions)
Medium of Instruction
Conducted in English only
此刺繡作坊開始前，藝術家首先會簡單介紹一些我們可以在刺繡上讀到的暗語。刺繡是一種本應得到更多重視的藝術，它訴說著未曾被注意到的過往。參與者將使用他們的舊衣服來製作刺繡，並透過在自己的創作中隱藏自己的柔韌的暗語，並透過合作以創造、消除、複製和保存回憶。
日期及時間
2021年10月9日 (星期六) 及 2021年10月23日 (星期六)
(此作坊分為兩節)
14:30 - 16:00
參加費
早鳥完整體驗主題之旅 (只限6月14日或之前報名)
HK$2,700
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參加費 (6月15日起)
HK$1,500 /班別 (共兩節)
語言
以英語教授
About Course Instructor
Ane Alfeiran
Ane is a self-taught Mexican artist who, from a young age, found an escape in art and a forum in which to express her feelings, hopes and fears. As someone who continues to travel the globe, Ane draws on inspiration and technique from the different cities and cultures she has experienced. Ane takes us into the emotional world of each of her subjects, making each painting stand out with its own individual story. Through a deep personal connection present in her compositions, she aims to stimulate the viewer’s feelings and imagination and encourage them to create their own interpretation of what the art means to them.
導師介紹
Ane Alfeiran
Ane 是個自學成才的墨西哥裔藝術家，年輕時已發現從藝術中尋找到歸宿解放、表達到她的感受、希望與恐懼。她周遊列國，所體驗的種種不同文化啟發她現在繪畫採納轉化的技巧。畫中主題要角每每引人入勝、領導每個人進入其情感世界，每幅畫就能獨立講述一個故事。透過作品結構所表現的深層個人連繫，Ane 希望能激發觀眾情感和想像、鼓勵大家創造和演繹藝術的意義。