During the week of Latvian Song Festival artists Ramyah Gowrishankar and Kati Hyyppä from Finland are inviting to an open electronic craft studio in RIXC Media Space where participants will be introduced to ‘electronic crafts’ and invited to try it out for themselves.
The studio will be open to participants from 14.00 to 18.00. At 18.00 we invite everyone to the concluding part of the studio with public presentations on electronic crafts. Artists will introduce their research and experience with e-embroidery and show how traditional textile artifacts – crowns or belts of national Latvian costumes – can become products of contemporary design when different electronic materials such as led lights and sensors are aded in their making-process. Visitors will also have a unique opportunity to try on electronic versions of Skrunda’s traditional crown.
The eCrafts Collective are Ramyah Gowrishankar and Kati Hyyppä who joined their forces in the quest for fascinating, unexpected and delightful combinations of crafts and electronics. Craft knowledge is versatile and has adapted with time to the availability of resources and materials. In todays world, it is possible to think of electronics as another, additional material for crafts. The eCrafts Collective likes to investigate traditional textiles, patterns and craft objects and to get insights to local cultures, traditions, histories and folklores surrounding them. In the course of the explorations, electronics become another ingredient in the mix, used for highlighting and complementing the crafted ‘story’.
“Electronic Crafts” is a part of residency centre SERDE event series that continues to raise awareness on Latvian contemporary cultural heritage and to promote it on an international and interdisciplinary level with the aim to introduce wider audiences with traditional crafts and their contemporary interpretations.
In year 2012 artists received a grant for creative work at SERDE residency. As the theme of their work, they chose to investigate the historical Skrunda crown and to reconstruct it by using the method of electronic embroidery. As the result of the residency two Skrunda crown prototypes were made with different electronic variations.
“Electronic Crafts” open studio and presentation is organised by Interdisciplinary Art Group and Residency Centre SERDE in collaboration with Centre for New Media Culture RIXC.
RIXC Media Space address – 11. novembra krastmala 35 (entrance from Minsterejas street).
Admission free.
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