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White Star‘ or ‚The whitest white of my life‘ – On the emancipatory significance of the washing machine.
23. November 2021 @ 18:30 - 20:00
Autor Beatrice Lamwaka embroidering excerpts from interviews with washer women on the topic of handwashing onto bedsheets.
1.2 billion women worldwide wash by hand. Not because they love it, but because they have to and there is no washing machine available to them as a women's liberator.
At Laundromat 115 in Berlin-Mitte's Torstraße, Rose Katusabe's voice rings out in a washing machine. 'I have to do it. It's my routine.' She has become accustomed to this. The 'must do' of textile care from childhood has become her routine.
'Laundry, washing, well-being' against backache and female self-preservation in order to survive. Since the beginning of the history of washing, the role of women has been incorporated into the history of washing. Its colonial continuities play out in the global divide between the eco-laundry and the water bucket.
Beatrice Lamwaka, Jim Joel Nyakaana and Alice Fassina washing 'Saved Items' at Laundromat 115. ©barbara caveng
Household linen from Uganda hangs silently on the rope in Berlin-Mitte. The gaze that sweeps over the sheets perceives the embroidered thoughts of the laundresses like scars in the fabric.
At 'Waschsalon' the 3-G rules apply + Mandatory masks
For further information/ reservation please contact us at waschsalon@streetware-saved-item.net
The event is part of of STREETWARE saved item's ' Congress on the Clothes heap' which describes a series of events between September and November 2021 dedicated to an inclusive and participatory philosophizing about the meaning of clothes, their production, distribution and consumption. Invited guests and random attendees dig into textonic layers, search for solutions, question the ethics of the second skin. Clothing protects and adorns. It represents basic aesthetic and existential needs, but its mode of production destroys the environment on a large scale and endangers the physical and psychological well-being of the people who cope with the manufacturing processes in socially intolerable conditions. How could sustainable production and economy look like - this is what we want to explore with people from the global - as well as Berlin - North and South in a multi-perspective way.