Dage[d]raad | Threads of the Day

The site-specific installations, soundscapes, interactive works, prints, drawings and paintings presented throughout evocative spaces of the Weaver's House, are responses to the threads of history of the contemporary human condition.

Many peoples present the world as being woven: its threads are lives, and their pattern is history. There are, for example, the Fates or Moirae in Greek mythology, who are the white-robed personifications of destiny. In Homer's Iliad the Moera spins the thread of life for men at their birth. Similar spinning goddesses of fate were known as the Norns in Norse mythology, and there is a parallel in the Baltic goddess Laima and her two sisters.

Here we use the theme of 'threads' as "elements of a story".

As you enter this museum you can read the hanging cloth outside in various ways in relation to the sounds you might notice as you enter. You might or might not notice the Persian text in this cloth, you might instead see it as a curtain or as an ephemeral form akin to a flag. The threads of the 'foreign' text might form a relationship (a story) with other elements such as the soundscape or the objects along the walls. As you proceed down the hall sounds from a video in a side room become audible as does the soundscape for the hanging objects "Inland Soul at Sea"

Inland Soul at Sea

The 7 minute soundscape that accompanies these hanging forms, incorporates music by Ben Koen & Joe Fiedler (from the "Reliance" cd) (U.S.A.), and by Brenda Liddiard and Mark Laurent (from their "Stations of the Cross" cd) (New Zealand).