FEMINIST SUPER STRINGSA Performative Laboratory for Embodied Knowledge
FEMINIST SUPER STRINGS is a performative exhibition and research laboratory hosted by MOTHERBOARD and developed within a circuit-based ritual architecture by Stephanie Winter & SALON HYBRID, in dialogue with works by Francesca Aldegani, Bettina Eigner and Zosia Holubowska.
Drawing connections between early knowledge systems, oral cultures, female writing traditions, ritual practices, healers, mystics and contemporary feminist thought — from Neolithic and pre-patriarchal contexts to the present — the project approaches history as a plural field of perspectives, where different times carry their own forms of knowledge, relation and coexistence.
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The project unfolds as an open, participatory setting exploring the “strings” that connect us, those that bind us, those that have been lost, and those we are collectively reweaving. Visitors are invited to create and contribute their own thread, a material trace of their presence and voice. Old garments are torn into strips and braided, twisted and knotted into threads, hand-dyed with black tea, cumin and other natural pigments. Stories, gestures, memories, songs and oral transmissions interweave into a shared body of relations.
With each encounter, the ritual architecture is activated and grows, accumulating threads, voices and gestures into an evolving collective structure.
FEMINIST SUPER STRINGS opens a space for unlearning inherited patriarchal structures and reactivating communal, embodied and non-dominant ways of knowing and being together, allowing different forms of knowledge and relation to circulate, connect and take material form.
What are the threads that hold us together? What forms of knowledge, relation and ritual have been obscured through systems of domination and patriarchal structures?
