K´ita Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop Opening Block Party
Very excited to host a lil block party as part of New York Textile Month that will include work from new and old friends whose work ILSM 🏹
Installation and indigo workshop by Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Andean sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Music performance by Camilo N.Á. Engels, Henry Fraser, and Jason Nazary
Sunday September 8th
6pm-9pm
240 Ingraham St. (Jefferson L)
Gratis, but please RSVP 🕯️
K´ita Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop
In 2016, archaeologists from George Washington University found a piece of a 6,000 year-old indigo dyed textile at Huaca Prieta (*), a prehistoric settlement in Peru. Until then, the oldest indigo-dyed fabric in existence was believed to be a 4,400 year old piece in Egypt. This piece gives a new perspective on the technologies developed across the American continent by its original inhabitants.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is a public-art installation by artist María Elena Pombo inspired by this discovery at F&T Auto Repair Shop, a car-repair shop in Bushwick owned by a Peruvian-Dominican family.
The installation uses deadstock silk organza dyed with Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
The installation is named after a Quechua word for the indigo plant.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is supported by a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and is part of New York Textile Month, a month-long celebration of textiles started in New York City in 2015 by Lidewij Edelkoort and directed by Ragna Froda.
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Opening Block Party
Sunday September 8, 2024
6:00pm - 9:00pm
240 Ingraham St. Brooklyn, NY 11237
Come One, Come All & Entren, que caben 100, but RSVP PLS TYSM <3
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, Bassist Henry Fraser, and Drummer Jason Nazary
Sweet potato snacks inspired by Huaca Prieta, where the oldest remains of sweet potatoes where also found <3 (*)
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6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Before the accidental invention of synthetic dyes in 1856, all cultures across the world used plants to dye their textiles. Among these plants, the Indigofera genus stands out for the complex technology necessary to extract color from it, and the diverse strategies developed by different societies worldwide.
In this workshop, each participant will receive a zine, silk organza, and a glass jar to create their own vat from scratch using fructose and calcium hydroxide.
They will be able to choose between Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
Workshop is free, but quantities are limited. Participants will get their materials on a first-come-first-serve basis and will need to RSVP beforehand.
María Elena Pombo is a Venezuelan artist based in NYC. Since 2016 she has designed and taught classes on natural dyes through a decolonial and non-extractivist lens in cultural centers, botanical gardens, film festivals, nightclubs, and more, across the USA, Europe and Japan.
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Mundo Extraño: Cultural refuge, where the decadence seen in the outside world has no place. The music of the sun, with its reference to the Andes and nature, symbolizes a source of vitality and renewal in the midst of a changing environment.
Andrés Altamirano is an Ecuadorian-born visual artist and photographer working primarily between New York City and Latin America.
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Peruvian Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, New York Bassist Henry Fraser, and New York Drummer Jason Nazary
With a proximity to the raw energy of hardcore punk, contemporary music, experimental jazz, spectralism, and the defiant beauty intrinsic to noise music, the musical statement of this project incorporates a constant expansion of sound possibilities and a telepathic interplay. With fast and angular melodic discourses in dialogue with harmonic complexity and polyrhythmic explorations, the music of this project resists confinement within established musical genres.
The trio operates as an electroacoustic organism orchestrating different narratives: from static and obscure, song-like low-frequency multi-layered textural complexity, to rapid virtuosic gestures that change in microseconds and merge with different electronic processings, to extreme-volume punk grooves with rhythmic structures that are constantly shifting.
Their first album Aqrabuamelu, was released in November of 2022 in a limited CD edition by the Massachusetts record label Tripticks Tapes.
During K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop they will play music from their second album, recorded in May of 2023, to be released in a special Vinyl and Cassette editions by the Mexican record label Aurora Central Records in 2024.
Very excited to host a lil block party as part of New York Textile Month that will include work from new and old friends whose work ILSM 🏹
Installation and indigo workshop by Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Andean sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Music performance by Camilo N.Á. Engels, Henry Fraser, and Jason Nazary
Sunday September 8th
6pm-9pm
240 Ingraham St. (Jefferson L)
Gratis, but please RSVP 🕯️
K´ita Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop
In 2016, archaeologists from George Washington University found a piece of a 6,000 year-old indigo dyed textile at Huaca Prieta (*), a prehistoric settlement in Peru. Until then, the oldest indigo-dyed fabric in existence was believed to be a 4,400 year old piece in Egypt. This piece gives a new perspective on the technologies developed across the American continent by its original inhabitants.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is a public-art installation by artist María Elena Pombo inspired by this discovery at F&T Auto Repair Shop, a car-repair shop in Bushwick owned by a Peruvian-Dominican family.
The installation uses deadstock silk organza dyed with Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
The installation is named after a Quechua word for the indigo plant.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is supported by a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and is part of New York Textile Month, a month-long celebration of textiles started in New York City in 2015 by Lidewij Edelkoort and directed by Ragna Froda.
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Opening Block Party
Sunday September 8, 2024
6:00pm - 9:00pm
240 Ingraham St. Brooklyn, NY 11237
Come One, Come All & Entren, que caben 100, but RSVP PLS TYSM <3
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, Bassist Henry Fraser, and Drummer Jason Nazary
Sweet potato snacks inspired by Huaca Prieta, where the oldest remains of sweet potatoes where also found <3 (*)
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6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Before the accidental invention of synthetic dyes in 1856, all cultures across the world used plants to dye their textiles. Among these plants, the Indigofera genus stands out for the complex technology necessary to extract color from it, and the diverse strategies developed by different societies worldwide.
In this workshop, each participant will receive a zine, silk organza, and a glass jar to create their own vat from scratch using fructose and calcium hydroxide.
They will be able to choose between Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
Workshop is free, but quantities are limited. Participants will get their materials on a first-come-first-serve basis and will need to RSVP beforehand.
María Elena Pombo is a Venezuelan artist based in NYC. Since 2016 she has designed and taught classes on natural dyes through a decolonial and non-extractivist lens in cultural centers, botanical gardens, film festivals, nightclubs, and more, across the USA, Europe and Japan.
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Mundo Extraño: Cultural refuge, where the decadence seen in the outside world has no place. The music of the sun, with its reference to the Andes and nature, symbolizes a source of vitality and renewal in the midst of a changing environment.
Andrés Altamirano is an Ecuadorian-born visual artist and photographer working primarily between New York City and Latin America.
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Peruvian Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, New York Bassist Henry Fraser, and New York Drummer Jason Nazary
With a proximity to the raw energy of hardcore punk, contemporary music, experimental jazz, spectralism, and the defiant beauty intrinsic to noise music, the musical statement of this project incorporates a constant expansion of sound possibilities and a telepathic interplay. With fast and angular melodic discourses in dialogue with harmonic complexity and polyrhythmic explorations, the music of this project resists confinement within established musical genres.
The trio operates as an electroacoustic organism orchestrating different narratives: from static and obscure, song-like low-frequency multi-layered textural complexity, to rapid virtuosic gestures that change in microseconds and merge with different electronic processings, to extreme-volume punk grooves with rhythmic structures that are constantly shifting.
Their first album Aqrabuamelu, was released in November of 2022 in a limited CD edition by the Massachusetts record label Tripticks Tapes.
During K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop they will play music from their second album, recorded in May of 2023, to be released in a special Vinyl and Cassette editions by the Mexican record label Aurora Central Records in 2024.
Very excited to host a lil block party as part of New York Textile Month that will include work from new and old friends whose work ILSM 🏹
Installation and indigo workshop by Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Andean sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Music performance by Camilo N.Á. Engels, Henry Fraser, and Jason Nazary
Sunday September 8th
6pm-9pm
240 Ingraham St. (Jefferson L)
Gratis, but please RSVP 🕯️
K´ita Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop
In 2016, archaeologists from George Washington University found a piece of a 6,000 year-old indigo dyed textile at Huaca Prieta (*), a prehistoric settlement in Peru. Until then, the oldest indigo-dyed fabric in existence was believed to be a 4,400 year old piece in Egypt. This piece gives a new perspective on the technologies developed across the American continent by its original inhabitants.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is a public-art installation by artist María Elena Pombo inspired by this discovery at F&T Auto Repair Shop, a car-repair shop in Bushwick owned by a Peruvian-Dominican family.
The installation uses deadstock silk organza dyed with Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
The installation is named after a Quechua word for the indigo plant.
K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop is supported by a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and is part of New York Textile Month, a month-long celebration of textiles started in New York City in 2015 by Lidewij Edelkoort and directed by Ragna Froda.
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Opening Block Party
Sunday September 8, 2024
6:00pm - 9:00pm
240 Ingraham St. Brooklyn, NY 11237
Come One, Come All & Entren, que caben 100, but RSVP PLS TYSM <3
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, Bassist Henry Fraser, and Drummer Jason Nazary
Sweet potato snacks inspired by Huaca Prieta, where the oldest remains of sweet potatoes where also found <3 (*)
-
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Indigo Workshop with Fragmentario (María Elena Pombo)
Before the accidental invention of synthetic dyes in 1856, all cultures across the world used plants to dye their textiles. Among these plants, the Indigofera genus stands out for the complex technology necessary to extract color from it, and the diverse strategies developed by different societies worldwide.
In this workshop, each participant will receive a zine, silk organza, and a glass jar to create their own vat from scratch using fructose and calcium hydroxide.
They will be able to choose between Indigofera Suffruticosa grown in Puerto Rico by Trama Antillana and Indigofera Guatemalensis grown in El Salvador by Hacienda Los Nacimientos. Two of few projects growing native American indigo in present times.
Workshop is free, but quantities are limited. Participants will get their materials on a first-come-first-serve basis and will need to RSVP beforehand.
María Elena Pombo is a Venezuelan artist based in NYC. Since 2016 she has designed and taught classes on natural dyes through a decolonial and non-extractivist lens in cultural centers, botanical gardens, film festivals, nightclubs, and more, across the USA, Europe and Japan.
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Andean Sounds by Mundo Extraño (Andrés Altamirano)
Mundo Extraño: Cultural refuge, where the decadence seen in the outside world has no place. The music of the sun, with its reference to the Andes and nature, symbolizes a source of vitality and renewal in the midst of a changing environment.
Andrés Altamirano is an Ecuadorian-born visual artist and photographer working primarily between New York City and Latin America.
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Music Performance by Peruvian Flutist Camilo N.Á. Engels, New York Bassist Henry Fraser, and New York Drummer Jason Nazary
With a proximity to the raw energy of hardcore punk, contemporary music, experimental jazz, spectralism, and the defiant beauty intrinsic to noise music, the musical statement of this project incorporates a constant expansion of sound possibilities and a telepathic interplay. With fast and angular melodic discourses in dialogue with harmonic complexity and polyrhythmic explorations, the music of this project resists confinement within established musical genres.
The trio operates as an electroacoustic organism orchestrating different narratives: from static and obscure, song-like low-frequency multi-layered textural complexity, to rapid virtuosic gestures that change in microseconds and merge with different electronic processings, to extreme-volume punk grooves with rhythmic structures that are constantly shifting.
Their first album Aqrabuamelu, was released in November of 2022 in a limited CD edition by the Massachusetts record label Tripticks Tapes.
During K´itha Tarwi en el Mechanic Shop they will play music from their second album, recorded in May of 2023, to be released in a special Vinyl and Cassette editions by the Mexican record label Aurora Central Records in 2024.