A man wearing glasses and a blue and white patterned shirt stands in front of a rustic stone wall.

World Shibori Network Foundation / 12 ISS

LXCL:Enjoy adrian nichols' poetry and light refreshments after the performance

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Installation, re-writings &amp; readingsby adrian nicholswithpoems new and oldtransforming texts of Al-Hariri, Ibn Arabi, Felix R&uuml;ckert, John Cageand boro fabrics from the collection of Yoshiko Wada.&nbsp;adrian nichols is currently writer in residence of theWorld Shibori Network Foundation, Berkeley.r a g &ndash; t a l e s &nbsp; &nbsp;r e &ndash; p u r p o s e d &nbsp;: &nbsp; a &nbsp; &nbsp;b o r o &nbsp; &nbsp;t e x tWill be an installation performance at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley exploringthe idea of how mending and re-purposing shape and re-shape clothing and language.In northern Japan, those responsible for clothing themselves and others in theirfamilies and communities developed a highly refined practice of mending and re-purposing clothing that emphasized the dignity of the wearers, using often tinyscraps of found or recovered fabric. In so doing, they produced a patchwork ofastonishing complexity visible only on the interior of the garment. This approach torepairing wear and tear is called boro.&nbsp;adrian nichols, currently writer in residence of the World Shibori NetworkFoundation, has taken two vintage samples of boro garments from the collection ofYoshiko Wada and hung them as figures in the Kala gallery. A series of texts, onpaper and in a four-channel playback of voice recordings, along with Nichols&rsquo; livevoice and found local sounds, will animate the figures. The texts, in English,German, and Arabic, analogously to the boro fabrics, represent a more or lessfleeting embodiment of words, ideas, and feelings read and recycled or processed fromtexts of John Cage, Felix R&uuml;ckert, Ibn Arabi, and Al-Hariri of Basra. More information on the WSNF site <a fr-original-style="" href="https://shibori.org/event/an-installation-performance-by-adrian-nichols-at-the-kala-art-institute-r-a-g-t-a-l-e-s-r-e-p-u-r-p-o-s-e-d-a-b-o-r-o/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;

Installation, re-writings &amp; readingsby adrian nicholswithpoems new and oldtransforming texts of Al-Hariri, Ibn Arabi, Felix Rückert, John Cageand boro fabrics from the collection of Yoshiko Wada. adrian nichols is currently writer in residence of theWorld Shibori Network Foundation, Berkeley.r a g – t a l e s    r e – p u r p o s e d  :   a    b o r o    t e x tWill be an installation performance at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley exploringthe idea of how mending and re-purposing shape and re-shape clothing and language.In northern Japan, those responsible for clothing themselves and others in theirfamilies and communities developed a highly refined practice of mending and re-purposing clothing that emphasized the dignity of the wearers, using often tinyscraps of found or recovered fabric. In so doing, they produced a patchwork ofastonishing complexity visible only on the interior of the garment. This approach torepairing wear and tear is called boro. adrian nichols, currently writer in residence of the World Shibori NetworkFoundation, has taken two vintage samples of boro garments from the collection ofYoshiko Wada and hung them as figures in the Kala gallery. A series of texts, onpaper and in a four-channel playback of voice recordings, along with Nichols’ livevoice and found local sounds, will animate the figures. The texts, in English,German, and Arabic, analogously to the boro fabrics, represent a more or lessfleeting embodiment of words, ideas, and feelings read and recycled or processed fromtexts of John Cage, Felix Rückert, Ibn Arabi, and Al-Hariri of Basra. More information on the WSNF site <a href="https://shibori.org/event/an-installation-performance-by-adrian-nichols-at-the-kala-art-institute-r-a-g-t-a-l-e-s-r-e-p-u-r-p-o-s-e-d-a-b-o-r-o/" target="_blank">here</a>.

World Shibori Network Foundation / 12 ISS

A Poetry Performance by Adrian Nichols, WSNF Artist in Residence - Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2990 San Pablo Ave

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