ReHecho/The ReMade Project
ReHecho / ReMade : open atelier and multi-generational dialogue on creative reuse methodologies by Daniela Fabrizi
Invited Lead Artist: Patricio O'Hea
Invited Artists: Lulu Varona, Mujeres en Movimiento, Taller Experimental de Arte
Materials and Skills:
Textiles, Costumes, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Mix Media and Collage
ReHecho or The ReMade Project is an itinerant community initiative based on conversations about resilience, environmental consciousness, and its possible solutions through creative reuse and textile techniques. It has an educational and social focus while generating conversations among the participants’ individual experiences in relation to waste. This 2nd edition of ReHecho / ReMade will be dedicated to the knowledge of Seniors in our communities and will consist of a month-long collaborative workshop culminating with an exhibition dedicated to upcycled art through different manifestations.
ReHecho is not only focused on pedagogical approaches of reuse and repurpose, but is rather impulsed by deconstructing the "concept" of upcycling into a natural action of resilience, honoring its real definition and origin in a world run by trends. Moved by the pertinent context of today's environmental issues, climate dislocation from our motherlands, the open atelier aims to raise an experiential awareness on how to generate less waste in our everyday life while recapturing the Caribbean and Latin American legacies of creative endurance and making due with what is available. Ultimately, what makes ReHecho special is the ambiance created around it, it is a social multigenerational gathering rather than just a workshop, serving as the soil where new conversations will grow between the mentors, participants, and spectators.
