Weaving as a Form of Listening

How can the process of weaving, and the act of slowness that accompanies it, create a space of possibility and experience that expands one's perception of the environment, both externally and internally? What form can a dialogue take when it is not the content but the space between the two bodies that is woven?

Based on the technique of belt weaving, the participants weave in the workshop without a fixed weaving frame.The threads are stretched between the bodies of the participants or along the architecture around in order to then weave towards each other in a collaborative process. Body and environment are integrated into this weaving process - literally and metaphorically.

Marei Loellmann is a visual artist and part of a number of interdisciplinary collectives. Her works reflect the relationship between the human body and its environment. The term “social fabric”, which describes the social structure of a society with the qualities of a textile, characterizes the various aspects of her practice - loose threads coming together in more or less densely woven structures whose collective elasticity and changeability are constantly being tested.

Marei Loellmann studied fashion design and stage design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Her work has been presented - solo and collectively - in various contexts, including the Kunstraum Kreuzberg, the Galerie am Körnerpark in Berlin, the Copenhagen Opera Festival and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. As a lecturer, she initiates workshops at universities, most recently at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle (Saale) and the University of the Arts in Berlin.