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It’s A Wrap: The Nest Collective x Stroom Den Haag in ‘Our House, Your Home’

We have come to a bittersweet end of our 2020/21 hybrid arts residency “Our House, Your Home”, hosted by Dutch art centre, gallery and maker-space, Stroom Den Haag. Over the past year, we have been in an online collaboration with the Stroom team, led by the extremely insightful and resourceful artist, teacher and cultural practitioner Ludmila Rodrigues, to develop our exploration Material Languages.

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‘A Machine Dreams of African Print’: A Presentation by Jim Chuchu

Our first series of 3 public online conversations from our hybrid online arts Stroom Den Haag residency, Material Languages, is with our very own Jim Chuchu. The online presentation will explore Jim’s Material Languages project ‘A Machine Dreams of African Print’, envisioning, through textiles and design, a future in which machines take on part of the labour of creative ideation.

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The Nest Collective x Stroom: ‘Material Languages’ Kickoff

We are excited to announce the kickoff series of online conversations to wrap our Stroom Den Haag residency, Our House, Your Home! Over the next couple weeks (11th May to 9th June), our very own Sunny Dolat, Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi will be presenting and discussing ‘Material Languages’, a series of new artworks reflecting on how textiles help us unpack belonging, identity, culture and design.

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Material Languages: The Nest Collective x Stroom den Haag in ‘Our House Your Home’

For the past year, the Nest has been exploring textiles as a medium, in a continuum of, and as an extension of, our work in fashion. We have been able to expand on this new work in an arts residency called ‘Our House, Your Home’, hosted by the Dutch, Hague-based art center and gallery, Stroom Den Haag. ‘Our House, Your Home’ invited us to take over the Stroom space, to study, research, experiment, make, discuss and exhibit our new explorations.

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