【Workshop】WEAVING GROUND：BANIG AS SHELTER, ROUTE, AND MEMORY
Post Date 2026.03.09
Event Date _ 2026/3/19 (Thu.) 13:00-17:00
Event Price _ Free
Event Location _ F211, School of Fine Arts, TNUA
【Workshop】WEAVING GROUND：BANIG AS SHELTER, ROUTE, AND MEMORY
Date&Time: 2026/3/19 (Thu.) 13:00-17:00
Location: F211, School of Fine Arts, TNUA
Artist: Greys Lockheart
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【Workshop】WEAVING GROUND：BANIG AS SHELTER, ROUTE, AND MEMORY
Date&Time: 2026/3/19 (Thu.) 13:00-17:00
Location: F211, School of Fine Arts, TNUA
Artist: Greys Lockheart
*Sign Up for Free
Introduction
Banig is a woven mat traditionally made in the Philippines from pandan (screwpine), buri palm, or tikog (a sedge grass native to the Philippines). For many Filipinos, it is an essential object in the household and also a form of “portable ground”: something that can be carried, laid out at any moment, folded or rolled up, and shared with others. Because of its mobility, the banig is not only a basic support for everyday living; when it is spread out, it also becomes a ground through which those who have moved away from home may feel grounded and connected with others.
The workshop《 WEAVING GROUND：BANIG AS SHELTER, ROUTE, AND MEMORY》 invites Filipino artist Greys Lockheart to guide participants from cultural context and conceptual discussion, to an introduction to materials, and finally to the practice of weaving. Step by step, through the act of weaving(織), participants come to understand(知) how migrants who move across borders continuously renegotiate boundaries and find ways to land and settle.
This workshop is one of the artistic programs within the exhibition project Unsettled Territories. Within this curatorial framework, weaving is approached not as a display of cultural heritage, but as an interface of embodied knowledge and translocal encounter. Through collective participation, the workshop materializes several questions: How is ground re-established when territory is unstable? How do labor, survival, and care move across borders? And might there be forms of knowledge that are created and transmitted without institutional centers—emerging instead through migration, interaction, and mutual exchange?
Introduction
Banig is a woven mat traditionally made in the Philippines from pandan (screwpine), buri palm, or tikog (a sedge grass native to the Philippines). For many Filipinos, it is an essential object in the household and also a form of “portable ground”: something that can be carried, laid out at any moment, folded or rolled up, and shared with others. Because of its mobility, the banig is not only a basic support for everyday living; when it is spread out, it also becomes a ground through which those who have moved away from home may feel grounded and connected with others.
The workshop《 WEAVING GROUND：BANIG AS SHELTER, ROUTE, AND MEMORY》 invites Filipino artist Greys Lockheart to guide participants from cultural context and conceptual discussion, to an introduction to materials, and finally to the practice of weaving. Step by step, through the act of weaving(織), participants come to understand(知) how migrants who move across borders continuously renegotiate boundaries and find ways to land and settle.
This workshop is one of the artistic programs within the exhibition project Unsettled Territories. Within this curatorial framework, weaving is approached not as a display of cultural heritage, but as an interface of embodied knowledge and translocal encounter. Through collective participation, the workshop materializes several questions: How is ground re-established when territory is unstable? How do labor, survival, and care move across borders? And might there be forms of knowledge that are created and transmitted without institutional centers—emerging instead through migration, interaction, and mutual exchange?
About the Artist
Greys Lockheart
A multidisciplinary artist working across performance, painting, soft-sculpture, installation and video art. Lockheart graduated with a BFA, majoring in Painting in 2007 at the University of the Philippines Cebu.
Her practice explores the obscure ways of nature and society; folkloric-ridden motifs; gender roles; and the idea of home as a living thing. Lockheart views household textiles as a setting for communication and social relationships. Her works has shown in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Brazil, Lithuania, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, and the USA. She has been doing community-based art residencies both locally and internationally since 2016.
About the Artist
Greys Lockheart
A multidisciplinary artist working across performance, painting, soft-sculpture, installation and video art. Lockheart graduated with a BFA, majoring in Painting in 2007 at the University of the Philippines Cebu.
Her practice explores the obscure ways of nature and society; folkloric-ridden motifs; gender roles; and the idea of home as a living thing. Lockheart views household textiles as a setting for communication and social relationships. Her works has shown in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Brazil, Lithuania, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, and the USA. She has been doing community-based art residencies both locally and internationally since 2016.
