Anna Chapman

Curated by Anna Chapman and Kiran Jandu

[RE]tangled features a range of artistic devices that invites participants to become entangled in fibers, space, and meaning.

The symbolic and literal center of the show is a loom, a collective weaving. It is a tapestry of knowing, whose warp and weft may be no other than ourselves and the stories we carry. To map this hyperobject, a wide landscape and network of perceivers must be engaged.

During this experimental gathering we intend to: navigate socio-ecological despair, build a web of resistance, and move closer to what heals. Please feel free to share thoughts in the black books placed around the room.

www.retangle.net

Kiran Jandu + Anna Chapman

Hand dyed recycled bed sheets, reclaimed industrial wood

6 ft x 6 ft

The communal loom is a site for entanglement with fibers, space, and meaning. As an exercise in world-building from what has been discarded, the loom frame is constructed with reclaimed industrial wood pillars, and the fibers from recycled bed sheets. Throughout the duration of the show, the public is invited to participate in this collective weaving, whose warp and weft may be no other than ourselves and the stories we carry. 

Over the course of this four hour event, over 100 people helped weave a rug that will be donated to the Umass Permaculture garden. Thanks to Sunrise Umass for the support!

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Photographs by Keith Toffling

Loom built by collaborator Kiran Jandu

Anna Chapman + Kiran Jandu @ [RE]tangle, 2024

Thanks to @praxisfiberworkshop for assistance dying the fabric

Over the course of this four hour event, over 100 people helped weave a rug that will be donated to the Umass Permaculture garden. Thanks to Sunrise Umass for the support!

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Photographs by Keith Toffling

Loom built by collaborator Kiran Jandu