Loomeweight is an umbrella of interdisciplinary performance projects created by Patricia Auchterlonie and Hestor Dart. Throughout 2024/2025 we developed and toured our first project, loomeweight I – we are now in the process of developing loomeweight II. The loomeweight projects are a way of exploring slow making processes, focusing on the meeting place of craft and song. We are interested in the reclamation of trash, the rediscovery and reworking of old ways of making, and the revoicing of lost songs. Loomeweight critiques the failures inherent in a system which promotes consumption over the sustainable processes of creating and community building. We are also exploring the omnipresent theme of ecological collapse, repurposing discarded objects into something of value.
loomeweight II
R&D for loomeweight II began in the summer of 2025 – we are working with a new style of loom and looking towards developing new musical material. loomeweight II is a backstrap loom which is another ancient form of loom, worn around the body of the weaver. We will be facing each other, using gentle resistence against each other in order to tension the warp, necessarily involving our bodies in the work in a completely new way. We are also searching for a new musical language for this project and we are particularly interested in investigating the sounds which the loom itself might generate. We are booking for 2025/2026 so please get in touch if you'd like to have loomeweight II near you!
