Date:
Several dates
Price:
CHF 70.–
Learn and perfect your creative skills with these 6 fully tutored sessions of experimental tapestry!
This course is aimed at beginners as well as those with previous experience who are looking to perfect their technique. In these mixed-level classes, we pay attention to the basic points of tapestry with the possibility of using our basse lisse looms as well.
Your teacher: Bérénice Courtin is a multidisciplinary artist from Paris, currently based in Geneva, following her Master's degree in Contemporary Applied Arts at the Massana school in Barcelona, and Master's course in Contemporary Art Practices at HEAD, Geneva. She focuses on textile arts, audiovisual, performance and installation.
CHF 35.– for students
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Materials available.
Open to all.
Bérénice Courtin is a multidisciplinary artist, born in 1994 in Paris, currently based in Geneva following her Master's degree in Contemporary Applied Arts at the Massana school in Barcelona, and a Master's degree at HEAD, Geneva. She focuses on textile arts, audiovisual and performance art. For the last four years, she has been working on research into the story of her grandfather Kazimierz Gaca. He was a Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War, working with the ENIGMA machine. She made fabrics with a Jacquard digital loom (TC2), where she hid́ codes, inspired by encrypted messages, comparing the loom and the machine, both being at the origin of the computer and the binary code. She has also collaborated with artists to create an experimental film performance on this subject that was shown at the La Alternativa festival at Barcelona's CCCB. Her Digital Jacquard installation was exhibited for three months in 2023 at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, in the Capsule du Musée.
She is currently preparing an exhibition for Milan Design Week 2024, with a sculpture and interactive textile project, combining crafts and new technologies, funded by the European Union Commission.
