Event overview
Explore Randa lace-making with Alejandra Mizrahi
Rooted in different modes of craft knowledge transmission - oral tradition, manuals, and dechados - this one’day workshop invites participants interested in textile practices to learn the logic of the Randa, a reticular needle lace made through knots and shaped by historical processes of migration. Through the engagement of hands and bodies, knotting, observing, and repeating, the workshop addresses both the textile technique and the colonial histories through which randa became established as a local cultural form within the community.
The workshop will include a close reading of a manual published collaboratively by Mizrahi and Claudia Aybar (EDUNT-IDEP), focusing on the choreographic forms of weaving that emerge from collective experience. It will also draw on specialized lace-related bibliography available in the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery.
Finally, the workshop foregrounds the material and relational dimensions of textile knowledge through direct work with physical samples and processes, questioning what makes a collective textile practice political at the intersection of history and knowledge transmission.
This workshop is part of the public programme of Choreographic Samplers (February 20th – March 7th 2026) a solo–collective exhibition by Argentinian artist Alejandra Mizrahi, curated by Gema Darbo and presented by Apsara Studio.
Alejandra Mizrahi is an artist and researcher. Born and based in Tucumán, Argentina, Mizrahi has worked alongside the community of Randeras de El Cercado for over fifteen years. She is currently undertaking a residency at the Delfina Foundation in London.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Mar 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
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