CIRCLE #2; A Resting Infrastructure

In our productivity-driven culture, rest is a theme that is either neglected or commodified. Claiming “unproductive” time is a topic that is either neglected or a taboo. Everything goes very fast, and we better hurry to catch up. However, not everybody is privileged to follow this culture’s fast pace. Especially when you are an immigrant and don’t understand the language or the culture. Or when you are neurodivergent and need more time, care and support. Even more so when you are both. Facilitating rest is care, and an important active measure for oneself, for a community or the planet. Valentina Karga invites participants with disability or neurodivergence and migration background to join her in producing a soft circular infrastructure with textiles. Cloths arecloured with natural dyes and participants draw on them with earthen pigments. By doing so, they are learning about the slow alchemy of natural colour and create empowering thoughts to counterbalance the disabling culture of fast-paced productivity.

in collaboration with MINA E.V.
in the frame of Who Cares? Feminist art festival 

and Eltern Von Besonderen Kindern (children and parents) at Historical Children: Lullabies from Wounds to Wonder at Savvy Contemporary