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| Memes and Tatis in Shanghai |
WORKGROUP
Inkeri Huhtamaa, Doctor of Arts
Taina Kontio, Media Artist
Satu Miettinen, Professor, Doctor of Arts
Tarja Wallius, Textile Artist
Taina Kontio, Media Artist
Satu Miettinen, Professor, Doctor of Arts
Tarja Wallius, Textile Artist
Katutura Work Group run workshops at Penduka, local women’s association and the
College of the Arts.
The task at Penduka was to create an installation for exhibition dealing with everyday life of Namibian and Katutura township women. At first we were discussing of the life of the women and families. Further the task was to make items of recycled materials.
The women decided to make an installation of the Namibian family where there are mostly women at home, then there are children of different ages but just a few men, because men work outside the homes. For the installation the women modelled and sew several women dolls and also children dolls, but just a few men dolls. Penduka also help the tuberculosis patients by giving them medicament packed in yellow plastic bags. These yellow bags were selected as the material for the dresses of the dolls. This installation of about fifty dolls represents well the real family life of Namibia.
At the College of the Arts Young people who were the same age as the new nation of Namibia contemplated changing identities, demands and responsibility and residue of segregation, the shift between old and new with video work. “Flexible Identities” film material was co-written and shot together with the participants of workshop in Katutura College of Arts and Design and in Katutura township.
The task at Penduka was to create an installation for exhibition dealing with everyday life of Namibian and Katutura township women. At first we were discussing of the life of the women and families. Further the task was to make items of recycled materials.
The women decided to make an installation of the Namibian family where there are mostly women at home, then there are children of different ages but just a few men, because men work outside the homes. For the installation the women modelled and sew several women dolls and also children dolls, but just a few men dolls. Penduka also help the tuberculosis patients by giving them medicament packed in yellow plastic bags. These yellow bags were selected as the material for the dresses of the dolls. This installation of about fifty dolls represents well the real family life of Namibia.
At the College of the Arts Young people who were the same age as the new nation of Namibia contemplated changing identities, demands and responsibility and residue of segregation, the shift between old and new with video work. “Flexible Identities” film material was co-written and shot together with the participants of workshop in Katutura College of Arts and Design and in Katutura township.
https://vimeo.com/52480132
