XisBag
IDEA / CONSTRUCTION / PRODUCTION
Idea: Venus Villa, Marta González, Emma Casadevall i Cèlia Legaz
In collaboration with: Gütesiegel Kultur*, Pallars livestock farmers, Associació Obrador Xisqueta, Ajuntament de Sort, La Clota Vic, known and unknown nice people and friends.
XIS-BAG is a project that unites audiovisual creation and large-format textile creation.
This project is born from looking up in times of confinement, paying attention to the territory and its relationship with the circuits of consumption and using the creative process to try to answer questions that are emerging: what is left of rural life? Why are there cycles that no longer close? Why is what was once useful now just waste?
So, the project wants to underline these unknowns and at the same time highlight a material such as wool, as well as the networks of people and projects that have collaborated in the research and exploration of artists in the region.
May 2020: we accompany the sheep slaughter and collect wool from neighbors
June 2020: we wash 60 kg of wool in the village laundry
July 2020: we bring the wool to felting and visit the felting workshop in Alicante and design the pattern of the giant handbag
August 2020: we make, build and assemble the handbag
September 2020: we have XISBAG, a giant haute cuture handbag (3.40m x 2.4m x 1.7m) made of sheep wool from the Catalan Pyrenees
October 2020: we offer the bag to Punch Agathe, the biggest pulcinella in the world
PHOTO: Venus Villa