Raisa Kabir

(Artist) (Weaver) (Writer)

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Education

School Art Institute Chicago

MFA - Fiber Material Studies (ongoing)2024

 

University of the Arts London 

Post Graduate Certificate - Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication  2022

 

Royal Holloway University of London

Post Graduate Certificate - Cultural Geography 2020

 

Chelsea college of Art and Design 2013

BA Textile Design degree (woven pathway) 

 

Manchester Metropolitan University 2010

BTECH diploma Foundation in Art and Design 

 

Employment

Lecturer Textile Design (Maternity cover) - BA Textiles - Central Saint Martins 2021 - 2022

Associate  Lecturer – Graduate Diploma Textile Design - Chelsea College of Art and Design 2020 - 2022

Associate Lecturer – BA Performance Design and Practice - Central Saint Martins 2020 - 2021

 

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2022 Craft Council – Cotton exhibition - London

2022 Ford Foundation Gallery – Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning – New York

2022 Festival of Making –Blackburn

2022 Shed Studio – Queer Radical Textiles - London

2021 Time to Rest – ArcadeCampfa - Cardiff

2021 Thread - Elysium Gallery, Swansea UK

2021 'Resistances' Art in Manufacturing commission, British Textile Biennial, Burnley UK

2021 'NO PROTECTION' Fabric of Society - Glasgow International - The Deep End, Glasgow, UK

2021 'House Made of Tin' 2020 weaving performance film, Ford Foundation Gallery, NYC, New York

2021 ‘A Disabled Artist/Art Worker contract’ – Bare minimum collective ICA London

2021 'Gather your spools, let your hair down for me. Gently. Here. Undo.'  2021 Ambi - CCA, Glasgow, UK

2020 ‘নীল. Nil. Nargis. Blue. Bring in the tide with your moon…’ Indigo + Madder, London, UK, Solo show

2020 'Fat Corset' 2010, Between Cloth and Skin - Fabric, Touch and Identity - Compton Verney Art Gallery, UK

2020 Indigo Performance, Indian Art Fair, New Delhi, India

2019 Picturing Climate - Tate Exchange (built a ground loom entirely out of found objects) London

2019 ‘Two Loom Cloth’ - Weave It! Stour Space, London, UK

2019 Art In Manufacturing, British Textile Biennial, Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, UK

2019 ‘BODY LOOM’ collective performance at Tate Britain with Tate EYF, London, UK

2018 ‘Build me a loom off of your back and your stomach’ Performance, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK

2017 ‘The Body is a site of Production…’ Performance, The Tetley Gallery, Leeds, UK

2017 Textile Art Center, NYC, New York, U.S

2017  ‘You and I are more alike…’ Performance, 56 Artillery Lane - Raven Row, London

2017 Beyond Borders, South Asian Textiles exhibition, Tapestry ‘It must be nice to fall in love…’ Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK

2016 ‘Warping the borders, fringes; fractured…’ Performance video, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK

2016 Warped - An exhibition on Sound and Weaving, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, North Carolina, U.S

2016 ‘Tati’ - Emerging Bengali Textile and Fashion, Rich Mix gallery, London

2016 Towards Marg, Alchemy Festival, South Bank, London

2015 South Asian Futures, Menier Gallery, London

2015 Asymmetric Grief, Arcadia Missa gallery, London

2015 In The Seam, woven collaboration with Raju Rage, Link Gallery, Manchester UK

2014 Rites and Rituals, weaving performance, INIVA, London

2014 Femme Hive/ Queer Feminine conference Berlin, Germany

2014 Guest Projects Residency, Weaving performance with QTIPOC Arts, London

2014 (in)visible space, Queeristan Festival, Amsterdam

2014 (in)visible space: queer dimensionality, space and affect, Rich Mix, London

2013 Textile Degree show, Chelsea College of Art, London

 

 

Selected Speaker/Lectures/Presentations

2021 'Artist in focus: ‘Beyond Borders’, Decolonising the Museum' - V&A Lecture

2021  ‘Performance intervention as a critical practice against inaction: crafting body politics and geographies of labour’ UCL Slade School of Art lecture series, and Central Saint Martins Fine Art Lecture series

2020 Patterns of Resistance - Alt_Cph - Lab Aesthetics and Ecology - Copenhagen

2020 Textile Labour + Embodied Geographies of weaving - Kunsthalle Amsterdam

2020 ‘Materialising gendered archives: weaving, language, and the textile archive’ - Edinburgh College of Art.

2020 - ‘Craft as a material strategy for performing politics and resistance - global textile narratives and embodied geographies of making’ - RCA Textiles Lecture Series

2019 – ‘Craft geographies, nationalism and heritage economies: border violence and the construction of national cloth in Kashmir and Bengal’ London College of Fashion UAL

2018 –  Tate Modern - Anni Albers symposium ‘Entanglements: the tensioned thread, the political line’  (Unweaving embodied labour) lecture

2018 – Decolonising South Asian Textile history - SADAC NYC

2018 – ‘Weaving as resistance’ lecture - Journal Cloth and Culture - Royal College of Art

2018 – Weaving as resistance: crossing thresholds, crafting identity, and lines of conflict - The Courtauld Institute of Art

2018 – Textiles and Place conference, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

2017 – To Draw the Line: Partitions, Dissonance, Art – A Case for South Asia, Blue Coat, Liverpool

2017 – South Asian Diaspora Arts Collective/ Textile Art Center, NYC, New York

2017 – Tate Modern: Collective Manifestos 4 A Collective Future, London

2017 – ‘In Search of Space’ Race and politics in art education - Glasgow School of Art

2016 – ‘Surviving the Art School': decolonising education, radical pedagogy, un-archiving and remapping our art histories, Academy of Fine arts, Vienna, Austria

2016 – Re-weaving Narratives, Artist’s Talk with Raisa Kabir, Center for Craft, Creativity and design, Asheville, North Carolina U.S

2016 – South Asian and Central American Textile collections, Whitworth, Manchester

2015 – Hidden Histories from Below Symposium, London Metropolitan Archives

2015 – IASSCX Literacies and Sexualities Conference,  Intimate Subjects, Oblique Objects, and Virtual Intimacies: Crossing Bodies, Boundaries, and Borders in Bengal and Beyond, DCU, Dublin

2015 – Art and Politics, Arcadia Missa gallery, London

2015 – ‘Politics of the Art School - Black arts movement then and now,’ Nottingham Contemporary

2015 – ‘The Politics of Cloth’ with Raju Rage, Cloth, Clothes and Culture Group, Stuart Hall Library, Rivington Place, London

2014 – Contemporary South Asian Youth Cultures and Fashion Symposium, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

2014 – Collective Creativity Performative lecture, Stuart Hall conference, Goldsmiths College

 

Workshops/Public engagement

2021 ‘Breaking down borders’ – Panel British Textile Biennial

2021 Flax weaving/growing workshops – Gateway Collective garden – Bootle/Liverpool

2021 Outburst Arts – Disability, weaving clay loom sculpture workshop - Belfast

2020 Cloth & Conversation:Dress, Memory & the Body - Quilting workshop, Compton Verney

2019 Collective Back Strap Weaving Workshop - Human Library, Bootle

2019 ‘Collectivity in times of Crisis’ teaching on ICA London Summer Programme for Yale and Paul Mellon Centre art students - ‘Weaving as a methodology in collective practice’

2019  Ecofutures: Four week weaving programme with Stitches in Time - ‘Weaving local voices - sustainability, survival and economies of labour’ in Tower Hamlets, London

2018 Workshop 'Radical Collective practice: Engaging with a politics of care and facilitating space for conversation’ - Cubitt Gallery, London

2018 Weaving Bengali textile histories - Cubitt Town Library, community engagement lecture

2018 Textile embroidery workshop with local South Asian women’s group, Loughborough Radar Loughborough project - Soon Reach

2017 Serpentine Gallery Youth Forum programme - London

2017 Mapping Textile Geographies workshop - Textile Arts Center New York

2017 Manifesto Workshop - Political arts activism - Keep It Complex, London

2016 ‘Woven stories: an intergenerational embroidery workshop’ - Leicester University.

2016 Weaving healing practice workshops - Whitworth Gallery, as part of Manchester Mela

2016 Textile mapping identities workshop - ‘Tati’ Rich Mix, London

2016 ‘Addressing Race in the Arts curriculum’ : A creative zine making workshop - Academy of Fine arts, Vienna

2016 ‘Bodies of Knowledge’ workshop - Wellcome Collection, London

2016 ‘Negotiating politics of art school’ - Nottingham Contemporary

2015 Huntley collection archives workshop - No Colour Bar exhibition youth programme - London Metropolitan archives

 

Visiting Lecturer experience
MA Textile Design - Royal College of Art

MA Fashion Cultures - London College of Fashion

Textile Fashion Foundation Studies - Manchester School of Art

BA Performance Design and Practice - Central Saint Martins

BA and Foundation Fine Art - Staffordshire University

Edinburgh College of Art

Courtauld Institute of Art

BA Fine Art - Institute of Fine Arts, University of Chittagong

 

 

 

Artist and Research Residencies

A Field of Flax - Bootle cum Linacre - Human Library 2020 - 2021

Art in Manufacturing Residency - John Spencer Textiles Commission 2020 - 2021

British Textile Biennial Artist in Residence Queen Street Mill Textile Museum 2019

Cove Park Craft and Design residency programme - Craft and Design residency 2019

Chittagong Hill Tracts Indigenous weaving and textiles research - Bangladesh 2019

The Tetley - BODYWORKSHOP intensive - Performance residency Leeds UK 2017

Textile Arts Center - Textile artist in residence, New York, U.S 2017

Wellcome Collection Trust -  Body Languages research project, London UK 2016

Whitworth Gallery - Artist in Residence and South Asian Textile collections research, Manchester UK 2016

Arquetopia - Woven Textiles Residency - Oaxaca, Mexico 2016

Drik Gallery, Muslin Festival - Woven textiles, heritage research, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2016

Making Histories Visible Archive, Black Arts Movement research residency - University Central Lancashire with Lubaina Himid UK 2015

 

 

Collections
‘
Warping the borders, fringes; fractured…’ (Performance video)  2016 - Whitworth Gallery

‘It must be nice to fall in love…’(Woven tapestry commission) 2017  - Whitworth Gallery

'Untitled II - Jute' 2020 Private Collection

'The Body is a site of production… (resist resist resist!)' 2017 - Private Collection

 

Awards

Joan Livingstone Fellowship - School Art Institute Chicago - 2022

Design History Society - Student Travel Award 2019

Henrietta Hutton Award - Royal Holloway Research Grant 2018

 

Publications

Hushed - On indigo and other things that moved - Ndidi Dike, Raisa Kabir, Lucille Junkere & Joyce Woodcock, curated by Natalia Palombo, Glasgow International 2021

Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art  Claire Wellesley Smith, Batsford Ltd 2021

‘Jumbies’ – publication – edited by We Are Panel - 2020

The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain Edited by by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles, published by Sternberg Press and Van Abbemuseum 2019

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media & Society Edited by: Lipi Begum, Rohit K. Dasgupta, Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, published I.B Tauris 2018

Key Words’ Art and Language Resource content Edited by Evan Ifekoya, published by Tate Gallery 2017

Surviving Art School: An Artist of Colour Tool kit  Edited and Foreword Raisa Kabir; Collective Creativity, published by Nottingham Contemporary 2016

(in)visible space - Raisa Kabir 2014

 

 

Press/Mentions

Craft Magazine – May 2021

Frieze Magazine - The Art of Queer Support in 2020

The Art Newspaper - Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend 2020

Art Monthly - ‘Decolonising the Canon’ 2019

Frieze Magazine - ‘The Artificial Divide Between Fine Art and Textiles is a Gendered Issue’ 2018

BBC Radio 4 - In pursuit of beauty programme - ‘In Stitches’ 2018

Textile Cloth and Culture Journal - ‘Aesthetics of Blackness issue’ 2018

Posture Magazine Issue 2 2016

Diva magazine November issue 2015

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