Explore the folk cultures and politics of traditional textile production at Whitechapel Gallery’s Flax Suite performance.

When: May 15

Where: Whitechapel Gallery

Ticket price: Free but bookable

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The Flax Exchange performs Flax Suite, a set of making actions exploring folk cultures and labour politics of traditional textile production.

The Flax Exchange is an ongoing community project led by artist Shane Waltener. It advocates sustainable textile practices. The show also focuses on growing flax from seed to process into linen thread and championing ancient craft techniques through the medium of performance. Sustainable textile processes and soil-to-soil systems turn into a series of live ‘making-actions’. This highlights the repetitive, rhythmic, musical nature of textile-making that keep the maker rooted in the pattern of production.

Flax Suite (The Whitechapel Variation Reprised) features a reworking of the original Flax Suite. This iteration is a variation of a score developed during a four-month residency at Park Primary School, Newham. It includes song, movement and dance, developed by musician Zoë Gilmour and dance artist Laura Glaser. The piece is performed at Whitechapel Gallery with accompanying soundscore by Elisha Lewis.

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