Fabrication of Blindness: Guantanamo Sewing Project

Fabrication of Blindness: Guantanamo Sewing Project

Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Saturday, January 31, 1 pm – 5 pm*
no crafting experience necessary

Please join us at Change You Want to See Gallery for an artists talk, screening and workshop led by J Mandle Performance. Julia Mandle’s installation Fabrication of Blindness attempts to give voice to the 700+ past and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Participants will learn the stories of those being held, and embroider detainees’ poems onto hoods which will be exhibited at installations in Washington DC, Paris, and NYC.

As the paradigm shifts in Washington, Fabrication of Blindness hopes to negotiate the aftermath of Americans’ complicit approval of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. Working with local craft and activist groups where the installation is shown, sewing circles will offer an opportunity to connect the actions of dissenters with the voices of those who have been held.

Sewing experience is not required, non-crafters are highly encouraged to attend. All materials will be provided. Come Thursday evening and/or Saturday day and get your craft on. An artist talk, discussion and screening with kick the sessions off.

*Saturday drop in any time. Bear in mind the sewing project will take a minimum of two hours.