WhiteFeather (with collaborator Elizabeth Littlejohn) present the video performance work, Mooncalf Homuncularium within the expanded textile field, as part of the Western Australia Fibres and Textile Association exhibition, ReGEN:: to form anew, part of the 2024 Indian Ocean Craft Triennial. The exhibition opening event takes place August 17, 2024 from 1-3pm at the Moores Building Art Space in Fremantle, Western Australia. The exhibition runs until September 1, 2024.

ReGEN is all about renewal, connection, and community; showcasing ideas and personal reflections about what ‘regeneration’ signifies to the WAFTA membership at large.

ReGEN also focuses on the breadth of contemporary applications of traditional textile-making techniques, in ways that engage the tactile, narrative, and transformative potential of cloth, fibres, and threads anew.

The Mooncalf Homuncularium:

Red string, like an umbilical cord, magically entwines fates. We wind strings around an incubation hut where body fluids have been poured together to create an alchemical in vitro baby, once called a ‘homunculus.’ Our string symbolizes “Ariadne’s thread,” the ball of yarn used as a way-finder out of the Cretan minotaur’s labyrinth, now a metaphor for unravelling ethical dilemmas.

The Mooncalf Homonculariam is installed as an activated textile sculpture at Athens School of Fine Arts’ Annex of Rethymno in Crete.

A film by Elizabeth Littlejohn and ritual performance by WhiteFeather Hunter

A collaborative project by WhiteFeather Hunter and Elizabeth Littlejohn
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For more information on the exhibition, visit the IOTA website here: https://indianoceancrafttriennial.com/festival-event/regen/

The exhibition catalogue is available free here: https://www.wafta.com.au/regen-2024

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