The Performances of Mending Repair and Society

In this episode we meet with Emmeline de Mooij and Margreet Sweerts, founders of the Feminist Needlework Party (Feministische Handwerk Partij, FHP), a political feminist artists’ movement that focuses on studying, repairing, speaking, patching up, unlearning and mending. The FHP organizes performative actions and workshops with which it investigates the underexposed history of textile production within the daily reality of women and wants to achieve a higher appreciation of care, maintenance and repair.