Useful Decor: Intro to Stab-binding (Summer 2023)
This in-person workshop takes place at CBA across two sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, September 13 and 14 from 6-9pm:
- Wednesday, September 13, 6:00pm-9:00pm ET
- Thursday, September 14, 6:00pm-9:00pm ET
Please note: Registration for this workshop ends September 6, at 11:59pm.
About the Workshop:
This in-person course is taught by CBA instructor Chang Yuchen.
On the first day, students will learn a 4-hole stab-binding and nobel stab-binding. In this traditional binding style originated in East Asia, stitchings simultaneously serve the utility of fastening pages and the beauty of geometry patterns. Examples of artists’ books (old and new) using related techniques will be shown to demonstrate further possibilities.
On the second day, students will learn tortoise-shell stab-binding and hemp-leaf stab-binding. In learning these two intricate binding styles, participants will experience the rhythm of stitching patterns, and will be led to creative improvisations.
Required Materials:
- A bone folder (or a butter knife)
- A knife
- Cutting board
- A pencil
- A ruler
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A hammer (or a rock)
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Thread
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A needle
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2 binder clips
Additional materials will be provided to students by CBA for the course at no additional cost.
About the Instructor:
Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner – writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. By constantly entering and exiting each medium, she strolls against the category of things, the labor division among people.
Yuchen was a recipient of Kahn Mason SIP Fellowship, Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, Huayu Youth Award Grand Jury Prize, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant and Lumiarts Fellowship. She has shown/performed her work at UCCA, Para Site, Taikwun Contemporary, Abrons Art Center, Artists Space, Assembly Room, etc. She was an artist in residence at NARS x Governors Island Satellite Residency, MASS MoCA, Museum of Art and Design, Textile Art Center, among others. Yuchen has written for publications including Randian, Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print and more.
All images provided courtesy of the instructor.
