THE WORLD KEEPS SPINNING
Workshop Sheep's Fleece with Aliz Farkas

Monday, 15 June 2026, 18:00 h
Location: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6a, Graz

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On Monday 15 June, we are hosting a workshop with Aliz Farkas. We will be working with sheep’s fleece, the material the Budapest-based artist used to create her new work in the current exhibition. In it, she draws on the millennia-old technique of spinning. Following an introduction to the artist’s work, participants are invited to spin their own yarn from the sheep’s fleece provided. Group discussion and the sharing of experiences are central to the workshop.

The artist Aliz Farkas is currently in Graz as part of a residency in collaboration with Kulturvermittlung Steiermark. In the current exhibition “A Parable for Endings and Beginnings We Don’t Know Yet. Part 1: The Giant Bird,” she presents, among other works, the brand-new piece “The World Keeps Spinning.” She has constructed a south-north-oriented world map from freshly shorn sheep’s fleece.

In this work, she refers to an aspect of colonizing the landscape and the rhythm of the ecosystem trough sheep farming by the expansion of the once-profitable wool industry into various territories. The development of pasture economy has led (and continues to lead, when we consider cattle farming) to changes in the ecosystems concerned, whilst at the same time driving indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories. Nowadays, sheep’s fleece has virtually no commercial value in this country, but the situation is quite different in other parts of the world. What remains, in any case, is the idea of something valuable, the stories surrounding it, and the myth that continues to be woven. This results in a sense of time that is kind of detached from economic and colonial developments.

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Aliz Farkas is staying in Graz in the frame of a residency in collaboration with Kulturvermittlung Steiermark

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