"La Mère"

"La Mère" is a performance conceived during the e-textile summer camp 2016 at Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes in Poncé sur le Loir, France. 

After two days of inspiring talks and workshops I joined the harvest group. The idea was to experiment to create some sort of e-textile with as many bio natural based techniques as possible. To present our investigation we decided to create an immersive experience that you will can check bellow. Hope you like it!

Over the period of 4 days we developed samples of new materials combining textile techniques, technology and nature. We grew crystals, cooked bioplastics with maizena and/or agar with food colouring. We crushed eggshells and mixed them with glow in the dark pigments. We made bioplastics from banana peels. We made aquafaba meringues with LEDs. We made paper with beetroot peels and grass. We made weavings from seeds and knitted fabric and did crochet with bamboo and wool. We wove seaweed and grass into fabrics. We made all kinds of kombuchas with electronics and dyes. Kombucha was woven, knitted, printed and embroidered. We screenprinted fabrics with onions, banana and carrots. We made soft robotics with nitinol and we foraged big fungi. more info: http://etextile-summercamp.org/2016/harvesting-textile/