Tangling Workshop is a shared working space. Although the main outcome may appear to be artworks made from recycled textiles and the learning of new techniques, the true core of the workshop lies in shared moments, a shared space, and the creation of community. The workshop usually takes place in groups of 10–15 participants.
Participants often bring clothing they no longer wear and textiles they no longer need. Together, we transform these materials into artworks. During the workshop, we learn techniques of tangling, building structures, and basic stitches and knots. Participants can work on their own individual projects or collaborate on a collective piece.
If you feel like creating together, text me — I’d love to work with you.
I have participated in and observed many of Tereza’s textile workshops in and outside of institutional settings. The main purpose of Tereza’s workshop settings is to get in touch with material, people and oneself whilst focusing on tangling textile fabrics that no longer serve their original purpose. Throughout her workshops, Tereza opens up self-reflection and connection in a light manner; inviting rather than demanding for connection, offering rather than imposing her expertise on others. Some people join, craft, don’t say a word and leave in gratitude. Those who are interested in diving deeper into the phenomenon of connection are guided through a process of reflecting and redefining the purpose of textile material. Thereby, Tereza creates a space for touching upon different layers of connection and sustainability.
By introducting her fairly approachable technique of tangling fabric pieces without the need of further tools, it is fairly easy for anyone to jump right into the matter. As Tereza introduces her workshops, she transforms any remaining doubts and uncertainties of participants into sparks of creative activity and self-confidence. From my own teaching experience, I know that people often doubt that they are capable of creative expression through crafting. After all, society gives us the misleading impression that arts and crafting is reserved exclusively for the educated ones. Tereza’s approach shows the opposite. It yields a highly valuable manner of practicing in the field of art and craft mediation that I rarely come across.
Tereza is a delicate, sensitive, empathetic person. She cares deeply about the spaces she creates together with her workshop participants, and at the same time, she is very laid-back and easygoing. The way she understands inclusion and co-creation makes for a didactically and artistically rich skillset. Her work resonates with the spirit of activism, but it does this in the most unagitated way I have ever come across. I personally enjoy how she creates a rich experience basically from scratch, often neither knowing her clients before she works with them, nor the ideas and desire they bring towards crafting.
Text by artist, curator and mentor Julia Herzog
