la Galerie du 19M
Individual Workshop
Connected Tweed
- From 09 to 23 November
- All public
- 2h
To mark the centenary of Maison Lesage, artist Diane Cescutti and Lesage’s textile design are inviting participants to imagine the future of weaving. The artist invites them to try their hand at different traditional techniques, integrating their phone charger cables to create a connected, hybrid weaving.
Practical info
- Single Tariff 29 €
Participants are asked to bring their phone charger cable with them to make the weaving.
Place
la Galerie du 19M - Paris/Aubervilliers
Preparation
For more details, refer to the practical information.
During this workshop, artist Diane Cescutti will offer an introduction to weaving through the discovery of ikat techniques, the Indonesian technique of knotting previously dyed threads, and passementerie, used for clothing decoration.
After choosing their threads from a special selection produced by Lesage’s textile design department, participants are invited to create a hybrid weaving on a miniature loom, incorporating their phone charger cable. The final object is a connected and hybrid weaving, a functional and personalised charger.
Participants will take their work home with them.
Diane Cescutti
Born in Chenôve in 1998, Diane Cescutti is a French transmedia artist who lives and works between Lyon and Paris. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2019 and 2021 respectively. She also studied in the textile section of the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan and in the Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms section of the Art Department at the University of Houston in the United States. In 2023, she was resident at the Villa Albertine for the Worlding Marfa project.
To imagine the future of weaving, Diane Cescutti takes as her starting point the loom that was at the origin of computation. Using a speculative, fictional, and narrative approach, she develops the digital potential of weaving. How can we rethink the regular warp and weft grid, not from a visual prism, but from the notion of textile territories?
To celebrate its centenary, Maison Lesage is teaming up its textile design department with the workshops of Diane Cescutti. Specialising in sampling, Lesage Textile constantly experiments with new forms of weaving and will be offering participants a special selection of exceptional threads.
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