12 participants
No prior knowledge required
Sold out – waiting list: info@q-o2.be

In the Textile Electro workshop, we deconstruct technology to better understand the systems around us and to reclaim electronics through textile and craft techniques. Embroidering speakers, making embroidery produce sound, crocheting resistors, or creating noise with knitting are just a few examples. We explore the boundaries and possibilities between art, craft, and technology. This project is part of a broader reflection on the reappropriation of technology, connecting textile practices with the DIY movement and Free Culture.

The artworks of Claire Williams take the form of woven antennas, glass sculptures filled with plasma or devices that sense the invisible. Data of radio telescopes and scanners materialise themselves in knitted stitches, sound vibrations or through luminous plasma. She sculpts her electronic components to make visible the electromagnetic movements from the cosmos, through our magnetosphere, to radio waves that cross our terrestrial environment or the ones emanating from our bodies and psychic activity. With her duo « The Æthers » she explores, collects and reactivates practices of the invisible found in the archives of experimental and occult sciences of the 19th and 20th century.

In spring 2025, Q-O2 launches a series of three workshops on the intersection of sound art and technological crafting taking place at Vaartkapoen in Molenbeek. Three sessions, lead by artists Claire Williams, Darsha Hewitt and Maryia Kamarova, encourage playful engagement with material through hands-on experimentation with electronics, sensory exploration, textile hacking and play. The workshops are open to everyone, no prior knowledge is required — just bring your curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

Workshop in the framework of tekhnē, funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.