Artist Kawita Vatanajyankur uses her entire body, especially feet, arms, hands and mouth, as a machine to weave red yarn into a piece of fabric that resembles a spider web. Kawita's spider web can be seen in the video Knit, which is part of the Performing Textiles Series.
On view at Jim Thompson House Museum, the exhibition "Spinning Wheels", which was created to tackle the exploitation of female labour in the textile industry, consists of six performance videos -- Knit, The Spinning Wheels, Dye, Shuttle, Untangled and Print. In each video, Kawita portrays herself as a machine in the fast fashion industry in order to symbolise how labourers are treated like machines. The videos have attracted viewers thanks to their candy-like colours and graphic design that look like advertisements.
