We are excited to announce that the BOSA - Briefing on Soft Arts residency program will be hosted in Zagreb, Croatia from 06-16 May, as a part of the CIMO X AFRI creative research collaboration.
BOSA - Briefing on Soft Arts is an ongoing research project of the Centre for Research of Fashion and Clothing (CIMO) and is focused on the concept of soft arts and softness in relation to designer and artistic practices. The project takes soft materials (primarily textiles) and soft references and procedures as its focus. CIMO welcomes Siviwe James as our latest artist-in-residence, who will focus on female oral histories in relation to local material cultures and craft practices. Siviwe will also take part in two upcoming CIMO programmes: the Open Salon and a workshop programme titled ‘I'm telling you a story… with a needle and thread’.
The 10-day residency offers immersive opportunities to explore alternate, and softer ways of connecting with fashion and dress stories and storytellers from a different part of the world and will contribute to (k)new ways of sharing practices and knowledges. During the residency, researcher and podcast producer Siviwe will share in listening practices with material stories and the cultural and feminist nuances of archival practices of everyday histories. How can a South-facing creative praxis be nurtured in relation to material outputs that deal in everyday knowledges, and how can these shared explorations offer new perspectives and threads for CIMO and AFRI.
Project is supported by the City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society.
Visual: Siviwe James
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