After embroidering in Cairo, Belgrade, Barcelona, Bristol and other places in and outside Europe, Vahida Ramujkic and Aviv Kruglanski bring their Real-time Documentary Embroidery project to Holon’s Jessy Cohen neighborhood. In each city they come to, the artists set up a stall on a street corner and invite passersby to join them and document reality using embroidery. The inbuilt slowness of passing a needle and thread through the material limits documenting ability, and forces the people embroidering to be selective and accurate in isolating elements from the surrounding reality. At the same time, it also allows them to spend time together, as guests and hosts, to form a group in which opinions and impressions are exchanged. The simple activity of embroidering challenges the pace of urban life, and presents an alternative while indicating the strong connection between our pace of life and the quality of the relationships we maintain, and between them and our ability to observe, gain impressions and learn. The Real-time Documentary Embroidery project also redefines the relationship between documenter and documented, and forces the two sides to contend in a complex way with the reality around them.
The office of Real-time Documentary Embroidery will be open from June 20 to July 7, Sun-Thur from 16:00-19:00, in the public space adjacent to the Center for Digital Art.
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