IRENE TRAPOTE: HACER TERRITORIO ATANDO CABOS

WORKSHOP/ COLLECTIVE PRACTICE
Workshop led by Irene Trapote as part of her residency in Bulegoa z/b with the project “Hacer territorio atando cabos”.

Date: wednesday, 17 December 2025.
Timetable: from 16:00 to 19:00.
Maximum: 8 people.

HACER TERRITORIO ATANDO CABOS
“Hacer territorio atando cabos” is a multidisciplinary project that attempts to draw attention to the trade of the net-makers, the women who weave fishing nets on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The project attempts to show the interdependence between the work of these women as builders of their cultural landscape and land itself, to showcase their work and their struggle over the course of its history, as well as to try to maintain and strengthen this artisanal trade that is becoming precarious and disappearing. The investigation holds up net-weaving as a further example of feminized labours that have historically been relegated to invisibility and therefore to precariousness.

This project is being developed using audiovisuals, sound landscapes, archive material and textile creation. The latter part takes on weight in the project as a tool for giving visibility to a traditional textile technique that appears to be headed for oblivion in many regions. 

To date the project has been developed on the coasts of A Coruña, Asturias and the north of Portugal. At present the artist is visiting Euskadi to continue acquainting herself with the net-makers of the Basque coast and developing her investigation into this trade that has been made invisible, net weaving and local materials.

WORKSHOP/ COLLECTIVE PRACTICE
The workshop is proposed as a space for placing the body and hands – as well as words – in the research that the artist is developing.

In the first place, the subject matter of the project will be introduced, and works produced previously will be shown, together with audiovisual and bibliographic information, so as to start the dialogue on the invisibility of feminized professions. Next, the technique of weaving fishing nets will be explained, to then introduce the body into this research and continue weaving the net (not only metaphorically). 

The practice of net-making is easier if one has prior knowledge of textiles, but can be done by people from any professional background.

To take part in the workshop, write to bulegoa@bulegoa.org explaining in 4-5 lines who you are, what you do, where you are from, and why you would like to take part in the workshop.

Irene Trapote. A multidisciplinary artist (Gijón, Asturias, 1998), studied Fine Art at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2016-2020) and subsequently obtained a Master’s Degree in Research in Art and Creation at the same university (2021). In particular she specialises in spaces, ecology and feminism. Her proposals set out from land and the relationship of bodies to it, exploring the communication between culture and setting; they tend to focus on land management, the present-day civilizational and eco-social crisis, situated knowledge, and the search for autonomy. Although she does not restrict herself to any specific discipline, she has recently been exploring the textile art and collective practice more closely, in the form of community workshops and workspaces.

Irene Trapote is developing her residency in Bulegoa z/b as a grant recipient in the call “Public Grants for the Creation, Research and Production of Artistic Projects in Residence” of the Ministry of Culture.