The Hammock and the Songlines - art therapy lab/Hamakas ir dainų eilės

[EN] The project: The Hammock and the Songlines is an ongoing artistic process based on the realization of a hammock with the contribution of the inhabitant, particularly involving the local communities. The artist Maria Chiara has traveled around Italy, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Lithuania, meeting people from those places, learning different approaches and techniques, and collecting yarns to use for knitting. The experience of knitting coincides with listening to people singing ancient songs from their culture: love songs, songs that tell about separation because of conflicts and war, exile and migration, and parting from the homeland.

Maria Chiara Calvani developed an episode of The Hammock and the Songlines’s project in Kintai village during the 20 days of residency at Kintai Art Residence. She has involved the inhabitants by inviting them to knit a piece of the hammock. Each day, Maria Chiara begins her performative action by choosing a…