Liberatha Alibalio is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work is driven by research, prioritising the exploration of materials and techniques in the development of new work and often working with textiles, performance, and video. She is inspired by self-knowledge including memory and history, and how it informs the consciousness and contemporary narratives. Her work is storytelling, re-learning and tracing patterns of self, nature, spirit and materiality through art making, embodying her connection to places and traditional cultural practices as research and making.
In Huntly, Liberatha is exploring histories of wool and the processing of wool, initially through embodying and reimagining the practice of spinning in some of the places that cited spinning, dying, weaving machinery in the town. Liberatha's practice questions how we come to embody knowledge – knowledge that is physical, spiritual, as opposed to taught, with some presumption that this is linked to ancestral and inherited knowledge. Do we feel the movement of a spinning wheel as muscle memory from our grandmother?
During this project, Liberatha will connect with people and places that have memory of wool spinning, dyeing and weaving, whilst learning to spin herself. At this stage, Liberatha invites you to join her by sharing your stories and memories, and spinning with her as she learns.
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25th Sept – Food Chain
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