Weaving Workshop with Marilou Schultz Weaving Workshop with Marilou Schultz

Join us for a Weaving workshop led by Marilou Schultz, artist, educator, and fourth-generation Diné weaver, for audiences aged 13 and above. Drawing on Schultz’s practice, which engages the logic of digital systems through the language of Diné weaving traditions, the workshop brings together centuries-old weaving techniques with contemporary technology and formal experimentation. 

The workshop will be held in both English and Dutch. Curator and researcher Lua Vollard will facilitate the workshop in Dutch.

Consult the full programme here

Extreme Presence gathers artists, thinkers and technologists to ask: what forms does presence take when the world and its technologies exceed what can be explained, known, or felt? The weekend responds to a current ‘devotional turn’: a renewed engagement with forms of mysticism and contemplative traditions in the face of planetary complexity and technological acceleration. How are these frameworks shaping the technologies we build and inhabit today, and what futures do they make intelligible, or imaginable?   

Spread across three locations in Amsterdam Zuid—Hartwig Proxy (Parnassusweg 213), Cinema The Pulse, (Hildegard Von Bingenstraat 4) and the newly opened pop-up space Parnassus 212 (Parnassusweg 212)— Extreme Presence combines talks, performances, screenings and workshops. Programme components can be attended individually.

Live events, talks and performances: Hartwig Proxy and Cinema The Pulse – EUR 10 / 8 (reduced) 
Film screenings: Cinema The Pulse – EUR 5
Workshops: Parnassus 212 – EUR 10 / 8 (reduced)

Marilou Schultz is a fourth-generation Diné weaver whose textiles merge centuries-old traditional techniques with formal experimentation, abstraction, and contemporary technology. Working on an upright vertical loom with hand-dyed wool and metallic thread, Schultz creates intricate weavings of microchips, QR codes, and digital circuitry – engaging the logic of digital systems through the language of Diné weaving tradition, natural dye, and formal experimentation. Her work proposes weaving as a foundational technology rooted not in automation but in the intelligence of the hand. 

Lua Vollaard is a curator and writer based in Amsterdam. Her project the Art History of the Microchip considers the history of photolithography through the works of the artists who dare to see its resolutely militaristic, labour-enclosing, and unyieldingly miniaturising origins. Together with coder Ana Meisel, Vollaard forms Superkilogirls. She teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven and writes for Frieze, e-flux, Art in America, and others.