7 – 11.4.2025 Workshop
Pot Rot: The Stench of the Past
with Anna Reutinger and Guest
This week you are asked to dredge up an old darling, long dead—your first love, your wastebin ideas, the thing you bought but never used, a dream unfulfilled—and make a work with it by the end of the week. What was once discarded is not always gone, to play with rot is worth the haunt.
Anna Reutinger tints social, material and historical moments into tales with many voices and shades. Working with second hand textiles and glass, natural dyes, scrap metal, agricultural byproducts, social encounters and distant histories, she enacts a hands-on approach to research—highlighting craft as seed for social, material and environmental sensitivity. From large-scale installations to performative workshops and film, she traces connections between textile craft and social disobedience, the time-scales of materials and bodies, and what traces can be left and gleaned from those on the periphery of historical record.
Image: Voynich Manuscript, c. 1490s, providence unknown.