Seema Goel, Carbon Footprint project, 2010. Photo by Nick Hand
- Friday, January 3, 2020
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
The project of re-connecting craft with its political potential is coalescing into a varied and layered movement. The desire for the handmade transcends aesthetic interest and includes a demonstrated eagerness on the part of the public to re-learn skills not only for the pleasure of making, but also in opposition to the homogenizing effects of global production and marketing. Craft invites its posse to counter and interrogate the many ills of contemporary society and reclaim their agency through making.
Free, everyone is welcome!
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Seema Goel is an artist, writer and craftivist. She draws on her dual background in arts and sciences to focus on the relationship between humans and the natural world, often highlighting contradictions within this relationship and noting the ways in which nature is used to advance human thinking. An eclectic range of materials from wool to projections on buildings allows her to combine high and low tech to engage her viewers through touch, humour and play.
Photo by Kira Koop