Patching Worlds: Threads of Dissent, Knots of Care

Patching Worlds: Threads of Dissent, Knots of Care

This workshop, facilitated by mmag artist resident Mudar Al-Khufash, offers a reflective examination of the present context and its influence on the ways we navigate contemporary realities. It invites participants to weave their voices into a shared tapestry—through writing, collective reading, performing, or other forms of artistic expression. Each contribution becomes a unique patch, transformed from text to visual form and vice versa, and these fragments intertwine together, creating a collective whole. The journey is one of connection, translation, and unfolding of a unified story.

In the framework of a series of collaborative workshops, we’ll experiment with material, work with fabrics, patch narratives, and weave new worlds. All selected works will be published in awhām’s 7th printed issue, and the program will end with a collective performance.

The workshops will take place at mmag over a 7-week period, the first meeting being on Wednesday april 16th. All other sessions will take place on Saturdays april 19 to May 31st.

Mudar Al-Khufash is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar aiming with his practice at disrupting hegemonic systems through critical resistance, merging art, activism, and pedagogy. His work exposes implicit violence in infrastructures of coloniality, power, and heteronormativity while proposing fugitive modes of being. He is the founder and creative director of awāhm, an annual print magazine that archives and amplifies counter-normative epistemologies, providing platforms for dissenting queer and feminist thought. His multimodular performances function as embodied critiques, collapsing the boundaries between art and political action, transforming spectators into collaborators. Currently, he spends his time between Berlin and Londo; his practice is itinerant, rooted in diasporic consciousness and the ethics of refusal.