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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ftjnjmr:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/373 2023-06-11T04:17:22+02:00 Stitching People Together: The Art of Cross-Cultural Encounters in an Embroidery Workshop Aure, Marit Al-Mahamid, Marsil Andjelov 2021-12-02 application/pdf application/xml https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/373 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.373 eng eng Helsinki University Press https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/373/498 https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/373/499 https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/373 doi:10.33134/njmr.373 Copyright (c) 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Nordic Journal of Migration Research; Vol. 11 No. 4 (2021); 400–415 1799-649X Arts Co-production Differences Similarities Encounters Integrating interaction info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftjnjmr https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.373 2023-05-04T19:58:03Z 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 Nordic Journal of Migration Research 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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