Concordia University

This art exhibition showcases the results of an ongoing studio research project in textile (batik), dance (Javanese dance) practices and pedagogy inside and outside the campus. The mobility grant that I received from Concordia University helped facilitate this project. I have been exploring the potential of interdisciplinary and culturally-relevant pedagogy for high school students. I have been developing a unit plan which brings together batik, dance, and pedagogy for Culture in-school program. <br/><br/>In this exhibit, I am presenting batik creations that were completed already and are in progress, using both traditional tools (canting) and a digital fabrication tool as an interdisciplinary approach to techniques in artmaking. I am also presenting batik &#145;Laseman&#146; technique steps as the pedagogical tool. This technique links to visual culture and further promotes digital fabrication to design textile/batik motifs. This exhibit is retrospective for me as an artist, art educator and batik designer. <br/>