Stitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshop
This article discusses how to live with differences while maintaining differences in an international embroidery workshop in Tromsø, Norway. It explores the role of art in enabling interactions between strangers, showing how individuals become part of collectives and facilitate social change. This c...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:f4d3f0757fbc49a4afbce1913ada9bda 2023-05-15T18:34:38+02:00 Stitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshop Marit Aure Marsil Andjelov Al-Mahamid 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.373 https://doaj.org/article/f4d3f0757fbc49a4afbce1913ada9bda EN eng Helsinki University Press https://journal-njmr.org/articles/373 https://doaj.org/toc/1799-649X 1799-649X doi:10.33134/njmr.373 https://doaj.org/article/f4d3f0757fbc49a4afbce1913ada9bda Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol 11, Iss 4 (2021) arts co-production differences similarities encounters integrating interaction Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration JV1-9480 Communities. Classes. Races HT51-1595 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.373 2022-12-31T15:15:52Z This article discusses how to live with differences while maintaining differences in an international embroidery workshop in Tromsø, Norway. It explores the role of art in enabling interactions between strangers, showing how individuals become part of collectives and facilitate social change. This collaboration between artist and researcher draws on data from arts-based participant observations and qualitative interviews. The analysis shows how embroidery practices, materials, and the expression of the embroideries create a space affording integrative encounters between strangers, easing the interaction which neither presupposes nor asks for similarities, or aims for strong interpersonal relations. We find that difference is the material through which encounters are made. The embroidering and the workshop create a space owned by no one with no majorities or minorities, where all possess differences but do not produce “otherness.” Participants remain different, yet connect and transform, while demonstrating the possibilities of impersonal cross-cultural encounters. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway Tromsø Nordic Journal of Migration Research 11 4 400 415 |
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This article discusses how to live with differences while maintaining differences in an international embroidery workshop in Tromsø, Norway. It explores the role of art in enabling interactions between strangers, showing how individuals become part of collectives and facilitate social change. This collaboration between artist and researcher draws on data from arts-based participant observations and qualitative interviews. The analysis shows how embroidery practices, materials, and the expression of the embroideries create a space affording integrative encounters between strangers, easing the interaction which neither presupposes nor asks for similarities, or aims for strong interpersonal relations. We find that difference is the material through which encounters are made. The embroidering and the workshop create a space owned by no one with no majorities or minorities, where all possess differences but do not produce “otherness.” Participants remain different, yet connect and transform, while demonstrating the possibilities of impersonal cross-cultural encounters. |
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