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(The 3x3-team's language of communication is English.)

The “3x3 Team” - consisting of Paulina Sadrak (Poland), Heike Ehrath (Germany) and Nanna Aspholm-Flik (Germany/ Finland) - spent the month of September 2023 at Haihatus artist residency in Joutsa. There the textile professionals explored the visibility in textile heritage. Their three-year process-based project "Grasp the Immaterial" started in Joutsa in 2023 for which the European Union granted funding in the program "Creative Moves Europe" for artists and cultural professionals. Finland, Germany and Poland are explored by each team member from her personal perspective. All three are professional textile makers and educators and interested in the non-verbal global nature of textiles.

Now in March 2024 the team is coming together for their Snapshot _Process Review 02 in a new set-up. This time the “3x3 Team” is invited to present their thoughts and works in a four-day "Fliegender Wechsel" at Gedok in Stuttgart. The process that begun in Finland now takes on momentum in Germany. The new exploration of textile-immateriality adds to the already “discovered”. At Gedok Paulina, Heike and Nanna reflect on their individual ideas, findings and makings relating to textile heritage and time in Finland. Visitors learn about the 3x3- team's collaboration at the Taito-Joutsa weaving center and the Haihatus art residency.

In the new German environment, 6 months after Finland, the individual textile topics from then have possibly taken on a new meaning now. Thoughts have evolved which mark the basis for the four-day "Fliegender Wechsel" at Gedok-Gallery in Stuttgart. Paulina, Heike and Nanna are keen on exchange and interaction. Learning from and with each other is key to their process-project "Grasp the Immaterial".

A warm welcome to everyone to visit us at the gallery and to participate in our workshops on Friday and Saturday.
Thu 21 March _7pm Opening with Christiane von Seebach, Chairperson, Gedok Stuttgart
Fri 22 March _3 - 8pm Paulina's talk on Polish fiber art; interactive textile-related workshops, exhibition-tours (on demand)
Sat 23 March - 3 - 8pm (identical program to yesterday)
Sun 24 March _12noon - 3pm dialog-conversations, exhibition tours (on demand)

What is Gedok? On https://www.gedok-stuttgart.de/ Gedok Stuttgart is described as "an undogmatic network of women artists, a cross-disciplinary cultural center, a place of exchange and encounter, a platform for the most diverse forms of expression."

The “3x3 team” feels honored to have been chosen to participate in the Gedok Gallery program. Input, interaction, workshops and conversations are what spurs the team-members in their textile thinking and their cultural heritage journey.

Photo: The colorful object depicted on the Snapshot _Process Review 02 poster and card stems from Finland. It was created as a "communal weaving project". It attracted young and old to cut and drape ribbons that in the end formed a textile chandelier.