project space performance from Raisa Kabir on Vimeo.
Performance part one - Making the Warp - "Your threads cut my fingers..."
This short video outlines the first performance of "Your threads cut my fingers...." Creating the fine, cotton warp which was then used in the second performance piece of "Your threads cut my fingers... they bleed yet again and again" at INIVA. This warp was beamed on to use on the loom, slowing drawing and unravelling the threads across the beams before being cut.... Undoing and re/doing the repetitive actions and labours of (historically violent) textile production in making a reflection on creativity/bodies/production and capital...