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on June 27, 2011
Tali Weinberg
backed a project
Stories of Hope - The Indigo Project by Linda LaBelle
Do you love textiles, the color blue, a good story, sustainability, helping others? If the answer is yes - support The Indigo Project!
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on November 6, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #16Final photos and new showing of ... but red is the color of the sun in Queens
Post CommentHi everyone,
I'm posting some long overdue photos of the blanket/throw I wove over the course of the show in September. I also wanted to let you know that that the woven items and video will be on display again for the first two weeks of December at Thalia Theater in Queens (http://www.thaliatheatre.org) . I am honored to have been asked to participate in this exhibit showing in conjunction with the play, Fuente Ovejuna-Ciudad Juarez. There is more info about the upcoming show here: http://www.thecrossborderproject.com/blog/
Also, I've sent out most of the yarn and photos. If you haven't received something, it means I do not yet have your address or am waiting to hear from you about which item you would like. I will put things in the mail as soon as I hear from you.
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on September 27, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #15Thank You!
Hi everyone,
As the kickstarter campaign comes to an end, I just wanted to send one more note of thanks for your participation and support. Over the next few days Ill be reaching out to those of you who requested yarn, pillows, or scarves to find out your preferences and make sure I have the necessary shipping info. My plan is get everything into the mail by mid October at the latest.
All the best,
Tali
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on September 27, 2010Funded!
Handmade Cloth as Interactive Art: Alternative exchange in the global economy by Tali Weinberg
Receive a usable piece of art in exchange for your participation in a New York gallery installation about sweatshops and violence against women.
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121% funded $1,216 pledged
- 35 backers
- Funded Sep 26, 2010
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on September 22, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #14Wrapping up
I just came home from de-installing to find that we have reached the kickstarter goal. I cannot thank you enough for your support! This has been a very intense project for me to work on over the last few months and it is your interest and funding that has made this a possibility.
Yesterday, shortly before I finished the blanket (photos soon), an NYU professor brought his class over to see the full exhibit and hear a bit about the piece. His class has been studying war through the lens of literature and I was quite honored that he found this to be a worthwhile addition.
Thank you again!
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Empathetics on September 22, 2010
Congrats on making this happen Tali, very sorry to have missed it. Hope it went well, and looking forward to seeing photos from the installation!
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on September 20, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #13But Red is Also the Color of the Sun
One more day left of the show. The cloth for the blanket I have been weaving is almost complete. I'll take it off the loom tomorrow and stitch the two panels together. Then on Wednesday everything comes down.
It’s been really wonderful to have support from all of you - in the form of contributions but also visits to the gallery and words of support. There are 6 days left in this kickstarter campaign, and as you know, this is an all or nothing deal. The project is 78% funded which means, to put it crudely, that Ill need 15 more people to donate $15... or two more people interested in keeping one of the pillows from the show. If you know of anyone who might be interested in this project I would really appreciate you passing this along. The $1000 from this campaign will go to cover the expenses of producing this show.
It’s been an intense experience for me working in the gallery- more so than I was fully expecting. While this particular piece is about hope and possibility as much as it is about revealing violence, many of the other works in the exhibit are direct in their representations of trauma: a portrait of a woman's face assembled from electronics parts (like those made in the factories along the border); small packets of clipped hair hanging as a divider to evoke the individual victims; and a video that plays on a loop listing the names of women victims of the femicide and how they died. In my updates to you so far I have been trying to focus on the process of the production of this piece and the metaphors embedded in the materials, but I realize that I have been soaking in these images of trauma and wanted to share that with you as well.
As I mentioned early on, it is my hope that the objects I have dyed and woven find homes and lives beyond this exhibition. And I wish that I were able to simply give everything away...
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on September 14, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #12Schedule Update: Artist Talk Tomorrow
Post CommentA quick correction to the schedule for "Disposable: Ciudad Juarez and the War on Women." The artist talk, originally announced for Thursday is actually tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th at 6:30 pm. It follows a play on the same topic, One Journey: Stitching Stories Across the Mexican “American” Border.
About the play:
One Journey: Stitching Stories Across the Mexican “American” Border is a woman’s coming of age border story that takes place in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. This play is loosely based on personal experiences both of family and community members that have given their insight on border dynamics that have affected them. Through the progression of the story the narrator begins to question the politics of the border, especially when the severity of policies begin to affect her family through violence, deportation and femicide amongst other issues she witnesses. The goal of this performance project is to shed light on border realities and how people are affected by U.S./Mexico economics and immigration policies today.
About The Artist: Yadira De La Riva is a poet/playwright/performer/educator from the U.S./Mexico borderland of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a B.A. in American Studies with two minors in Theater Arts and Latin American Studies. In 2002 she was an intern for Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she had the privilege of working with Augusto Boal and directors of CTO-Rio. Yadira has worked with artists such as Josephina Lopez, Violeta Luna, Octavio Solis and Don Williams and has performed in various multicultural community venues throughout the Bay Area, California. She has also taught theater workshops for young people in California, Mexico, Cuba and Brazil and currently teaches in various schools throughout NYC. Yadira recently obtained her Master’s Degree in Artivism: Performance as a means of Cultural Resistance, at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she was a Newington-Cropsey Fellow. As her thesis she presented a one-woman show One Journey: Stitching Stories Across the Mexican “American” Border, which was performed as part of the Emerging Identities Solo Performance Collaborative, Emerging Artist Theater: One Woman Standing Theater Festival and Gallatin’s Master’s Thesis Showcase in Spring 2010 in New York City. Yadira is an intellectually fierce and multi-faceted performer whose passion is to create/perform/produce performances that represent and empower marginalized voices nationally and internationally.
Also a few photos of some of the other work in the exhibit. (Amia Yokoyama, Hayden Dunham, Chris Nolan)
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on September 13, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #11Day 2 of Disposable
Post CommentThe opening on Friday evening was great. Thanks to those of you who were able to be there. Below are a few photos so that you can see where the project stands after Friday and today working in the gallery. I made the warp fairly quickly and managed to get it wound onto the back of the loom before leaving at 4 today. So tomorrow Ill be threading and will most likely be weaving by Wednesday.
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on September 9, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #10A few photos from installing the show yesterday.
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on September 7, 2010
Tali Weinberg
Posted project update #9Warmth and Security
Post CommentThe last object is woven - a 44"x70" red wool blanket with a few white accents to make the otherwise subtle herringbone pattern more visible.
I'll be installing tomorrow so I'm spending this evening packing everything up. Thanks to all of you for your contributions. Your support and participation means a lot to me. (And will hopefully keep me from getting as nervous as I am apt to before a show)
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Tali Weinberg
Brooklyn, NY
A Brooklyn-based artist and activist, my practice of making emerges in conversation with my past work in human rights and fair trade advocacy, community organizing, and grassroots development, including time living in Bombay, India working with a sex-worker... view more
Hello Tali,
I just want to say Congrats on a job well done! With regard to the pillow I select, please choose one that doesn't have ORANGE in it...I prefer blue-reds.
Thanks again,
Margaret