Sews of Solidarity with Sehej Kaur and Kaylee Rankin
Event description
Join Sehej Kaur and Kaylee Rankin for a community quilting session at Firstdraft. In strengthening and sewing together fragments or loose memories of each person's fabric, our host's offer an opportunity for reflection on community, solidarity and collective resistance.
Participants are welcome to bring their own personal patches, fabric or found objects to incorporate into the quilt, including handwritten confessionals and wishes. Materials will also be provided on the day.
Sehej and Kaylee invite all who are interested to join them in the Palestine Action Group Sydney March that is usually hosted at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoons once the workshop is over.
Who are artists Sehej Kaur and Kaylee Rankin?
In diasporic and medical upbringings, Sehej Kaur’s work engages in the tensions between Western and Holistic healing practices and resisting extractive structures of wellness culture and sterile landscapes. In current and infinite digital realms where ways of storing and storying are creative and abundant, Sehej harnesses media arts and its inherent multiplicity as an archival tool, where sonic, visual and interactive measures create a gateway to re-writing patient futurities in bodily, cultural and autonomous embrace. Through mergings and disruptions of physical and digital mediums, Sehej seeks out activating communal and sensorial grounds of healing and feeling.
Kaylee Rankin is a Warrang based multidisciplinary artist working as one half of creative duo Spacefloss Collective. Her practice explores the intersection of desire and imposed shame through diverse materials to make works people can play with, put in their noses and pull apart. She is passionate about community led art spaces that prioritise expansive perspectives and reject the traditional western elitist and exclusionary structures of the arts world.