with Marianne Noer, Rahima Gambo and the Tatsuniya Collective

Weaving stories is a workshop series between Hosting Lands artists and the Tatsuniya collective based in Maiduguri, Nigeria. This collaboration was initiated by artist Rahima Gambo, to develop conversations and share artistic methods around textile art, that would lead to the making and completion of works in collaboration with the collective.

The first workshop is being led by Danish wool and textile based artist Marianne Noer. Working with textiles in an architectural context Marianne is driven by a curiosity towards investigating past traditions of weaving. She asks questions about textiles’ meaning and role in today’s society.
Marianne will talk about gathering materials and how they can guide the artistic process.

The workshop will focus on using one’s senses when investigating materials. The artists will then zoom in on larger thread materials used for weaving and which stories one can tell with them.

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Participant bios

Rahima Gambo is an artist whose work engages with the tools of documentary making that includes photography, drawing, film, sculpture, installation and sound. She is currently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
She has collaborated with the Tatsuniya Collective since 2015, as part of her photo-journalistic work  “Education is Forbidden”: a long form multimedia narrative about how students were personally experiencing the Boko Haram conflict where schools and universities were targeted.

“Tatsuniya” meaning, story, tale or riddle in Hausa, is a collaboration between Rahima and a group of young women in Maiduguri, Nigeria to find agency and fellowship through visual storytelling. 
The collective is a gathering space where members can initiate projects, discuss issues, find support, resources and be sustained in the long-run. 

It is also a place where the parameters of long-term collaboration, agency, representation and authorship can be defined and mediated.

Marianne Noer, based in the western heathlands of Denmark, describes her practice, as a “weaving and tactile practice exploring cultural and intangible heritage in relation to material and textile craftmanship. 
Her recent projects include “Wet, Work,” “Construction of a woven object,” “Where all the sheep.” She has recently collaborated with Hosting Lands developing her textile based installation “Grandfather caught my eel.”

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Weaving Stories, and Rahima Gambo, are supported by a Hosting Lands project, Pedagogies of the Rural.


 Pedagogies of the Rural facilitates international exchanges between various self-organized art and community projects on questions of art, rural community building, land care and alternative pedagogies. The project specifically supports projects in non-western contexts, and seeks to redistribute resources away from Denmark. We are proud to be collaborating with Dharmendra Prasad (India), Jorgé Gonazales Santos (Puerto Rico), Rahima Gambo (Nigeria and England), and Rice Brewing Sisters Club (South Korea). 

This workshop has been supported by Bikuben Vision Exhibition Award, Globus Call Nordisk Kulturfond.