Image. Colette Lewis (right) with textile artists Helen O Shea and Caroline Smith, and urban theorist Roy Wroth in Cork City Council Chamber in City Hall
Devised for the KinShip project over a long term placement, artist Colette Lewis created the (Waste) Fibre Flows Laboratory.
The Laboratory is an experimental space to process materials and ideas for new ways of thinking about our complex relationship with waste material. The (Waste) Fibre Flows Laboratory was devised as a collaborative and interdisciplinary space where policy, philosophy, speculative design and hands-on material processes meet.
The first public performative action took place in Cork City Council Chamber in City Hall in November 2022 with textile artists Helen O'Shea and Caroline Smith, and urban theorist Roy Wroth to explore the resource potential of textile waste as a case study and starting point for conversation and exchange with invited local policymakers, environmentalists and community representatives.
Follow Colette Lewis' ongoing research blog, bringing together an array of critical perspectives, community initiatives and artistic approaches reflecting and re-imagining our complex relationship with waste.
Aesthetics and Ontologies of Waste - https://kinshipcolettelewis.tumblr.com
