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i acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land and waters upon which i live, work and learn. i would like to show my respect to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.
i acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land and waters upon which i live, work and learn. i would like to show my respect to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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Research-based designer/artist performing experimental material investigations, exploring alternative methodologies and critical approaches for making in a multispecies’ world. Their studio work focuses on participatory methods, contemporary craft, kinship and open source processes.
Currently a PhD candidate, research scholarship awardee and sessional lecturer in the College of Design and Social Context, RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Naarm/Melbourne, Australia and researcher in esad—idea research centre linked with ESAD College of Arts and Design, Matosinhos, Portugal.
︎ knock@rutechaves.com
︎ rute_chaves_studio
qualifications + studentships
2019-current PhD Candidate awardee and sessional lecturer Collegue of Design and Social Context RMIT, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2014-2018 Bachelor of Arts: Textile and Surface Design, High
Distinction, Berlin Weißensee School of Art, Germany
2017-2018 Textile Design (Honours), DAAD -German Academic Exchange Service awardee, School of Fashion and Textiles RMIT, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2012 Intensive Course: Pattern-making – experimental and explorative approaches, Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
2001-2005 Degree Occupational Therapy, Distinction, University of Porto, Portugal
Languages
PORTUGUESE native
ENGLISH fluent
GERMAN fluent
SPANISH proficient
2019-current PhD Candidate awardee and sessional lecturer Collegue of Design and Social Context RMIT, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2014-2018 Bachelor of Arts: Textile and Surface Design, High
Distinction, Berlin Weißensee School of Art, Germany
2017-2018 Textile Design (Honours), DAAD -German Academic Exchange Service awardee, School of Fashion and Textiles RMIT, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2012 Intensive Course: Pattern-making – experimental and explorative approaches, Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London, United Kingdom
2001-2005 Degree Occupational Therapy, Distinction, University of Porto, Portugal
Languages
PORTUGUESE native
ENGLISH fluent
GERMAN fluent
SPANISH proficient
workshops | residencies | exhibitions
2022 MAKE HASTE, FILM WASTE documentary screening on the project GARMENTS AGAINST WASTE: BODIES THAT MAKE, The Capitol, Melbourne Knowledge Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia (Access: HERE)
2022 - GARMENTS AGAINST WASTE: BODIES THAT MAKE, participatory textile installation/activation, MPAVILION, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 - FEMMES & THEMS VR online group exhibition, CAST Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, caring / carrying large scale textile print (Access: HERE)
2021 - ROADMAP 2nd iteration of STATE OF DISASTER -open air group show co-curated w/ Tameka Carter + caring / carrying large scale textile print, streets of Wurundjeri country/Kensington, Australia
2021 - AusSTS 2021: SITUATED PRACTICE - A MULTI-SITED WORKSHOP, Is waste waste?, Science and Society Network - Deakin University, Deakin Downtown Conference Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 CIRCULAR FUTURE EXHIBITION group show, ∞cut.melt.knit.walk.cut.melt∞, RMIT Activator Melbourne Knowledge Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 EPISTOLARY, a Lover’ discourse: write a love letter to melbourne -public workshop guest speaker/performance artefact, Melbourne Design Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 MIND THE GAP LAUNCH issue 13, do you want to knit-talk? -participatory hacked knitting machine performance about waste, Assemble Papers, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020 HOME group show, a medium is a device through which a world makes itself known or seen or heard performance artefact, House Conspiracy, Meeanjin/Brisbane, Australia
2020 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY, do you want to knit-talk? -participatory hacked knitting machine performance about waste (individual sessions online due to covid-19), Craft Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020 - STATE OF DISASTER, open air group show co-curated w/ Tameka Carter + Interactive knit type-writer performance installation a medium is a device through which a world makes itself known or seen or heard, streets of Wurundjeri country/Kensington, Australia
2020 - THE STORY OF PLASTIC DISCUSSION PANELIST, Colourful Collective, online event
2020 - THE MEANING OF THINGS group show (online due to Covid-19), memory is the last drop that never ends, memory will never dry out -knit type writer durational performance video, Craft Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2022 MAKE HASTE, FILM WASTE documentary screening on the project GARMENTS AGAINST WASTE: BODIES THAT MAKE, The Capitol, Melbourne Knowledge Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia (Access: HERE)
2022 - GARMENTS AGAINST WASTE: BODIES THAT MAKE, participatory textile installation/activation, MPAVILION, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 - FEMMES & THEMS VR online group exhibition, CAST Contemporary Art and Social Transformation, caring / carrying large scale textile print (Access: HERE)
2021 - ROADMAP 2nd iteration of STATE OF DISASTER -open air group show co-curated w/ Tameka Carter + caring / carrying large scale textile print, streets of Wurundjeri country/Kensington, Australia
2021 - AusSTS 2021: SITUATED PRACTICE - A MULTI-SITED WORKSHOP, Is waste waste?, Science and Society Network - Deakin University, Deakin Downtown Conference Centre, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 CIRCULAR FUTURE EXHIBITION group show, ∞cut.melt.knit.walk.cut.melt∞, RMIT Activator Melbourne Knowledge Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 EPISTOLARY, a Lover’ discourse: write a love letter to melbourne -public workshop guest speaker/performance artefact, Melbourne Design Week, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2021 MIND THE GAP LAUNCH issue 13, do you want to knit-talk? -participatory hacked knitting machine performance about waste, Assemble Papers, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020 HOME group show, a medium is a device through which a world makes itself known or seen or heard performance artefact, House Conspiracy, Meeanjin/Brisbane, Australia
2020 CRAFT CONTEMPORARY, do you want to knit-talk? -participatory hacked knitting machine performance about waste (individual sessions online due to covid-19), Craft Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020 - STATE OF DISASTER, open air group show co-curated w/ Tameka Carter + Interactive knit type-writer performance installation a medium is a device through which a world makes itself known or seen or heard, streets of Wurundjeri country/Kensington, Australia
2020 - THE STORY OF PLASTIC DISCUSSION PANELIST, Colourful Collective, online event
2020 - THE MEANING OF THINGS group show (online due to Covid-19), memory is the last drop that never ends, memory will never dry out -knit type writer durational performance video, Craft Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2020 - SUPERNACULUM group show, memory is the last drop that never ends, memory will never dry out -knit type writer durational performance, Brooklyn Arts Hotel, Ngár-go/Fitzroy, Australia
2020 - GENRE SPANNER 4th Aniversary party, TRICOTAUTOMAT knit photo booth participatory installation, Rubix Warehouse, Bulleke-bek/Brunswick, Australia
2019 - FIBER group show, TRICOTAUTOMAT, Brunswick Street Gallery, Bulleke-bek/Brunswick, Australia
2019 - CULTURAL THREADS textile art festival, TRICOTAUTOMAT itinerary knit photo booth participatory installation + outcome exhibited at Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens, Woiwurrung Country/Dandenong, Australia
2019 - AIR18 exhibition, TRICOTAUTOMAT, ATW Australian Tapestry Workshop, Wurundjeri country/South Melbourne, Australia
2018 – THE SEA BETWEEN US: THE ILLUMINATED SEA group show, ∞cut.melt.knit.walk.cut.melt∞, Melbourne Fashion Week Tasma Terrace, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2018 – CRAFT CUBED artist in residency, Craft Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
2018 – ATW artist in residency, ATW Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne, Australia
2016-2017 TRICOTAUTOMAT hacked knitting machine monthly participatory workshops, German Museum of Technology Berlin, Germany
2016 LANGE NACHT DER MUSEUM, TRICOTAUTOMAT hacked knitting machine workshop, Natural History Museum Berlin, Germany
2016 MAKER FAIRE, TRICOTAUTOMAT knit photo booth participatory installation -Maker of Honour, Berlin, Germany
2016 RE:PUBLICA 10 media conference, TRICOTAUTOMAT knit photo booth participatory installation -speaker + workshop Berlin, Germany
2015 PAB OPEN performance festival, Do you eat me? collaboration w/ Sunniva Innstrand, Bergen, Norway
2013 SUMMER WE GO PUBLIC artist in residency, Textílsetur Íslands Blöndós, Iceland
2012 EXHIBITION + SHOWROOM Wild cream dreams glow at night solo collection, Sameheads, Berlin, Germany
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i acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong Peoples of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land and waters upon which i live, work and learn. i would like to show my respect to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.