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/// I see it everywhere, women working too much/// - Eva Vẽvere ‘ The Journey of the shirt began with a conversation between two women who hardly knew each other. In time, it became a realisation of the shared reality of many women and eventually a text-based drawing. Later I decided to turn it into a T-shirt for my hardworking friend from the culture sector, who would always be working too much, simultaneously managing multiple jobs, projects, family life and social life and voluntary work. But she is no exception; surrounded by women working in the cultural, educational, and social realms. I observed that this way of living, something we have accepted as a norm or baseline. When I started getting ‘orders’ to make more shirts and send them to different countries it became clear that the simple text on the shirt resonates with people. Suddenly if became a conversation that extends beyond borders, professions and countries, a global discourse where everyone can join in and each of us has something to say’ Text: Eva Vēvere T-shirts, available to purchase - direct message @_glandwr_ to reserve yours. All proceeds go to the artist. // // I see it everywhere, women working too much// is part of Eva’s installation ‘Hedgerow Bodies’ curated by Debi Paul. The series of drawings On _ and I see it everywhere… came about as a response to the International symposium ‘The Lost-and-Found: Revisiting Art Stories in Search of Potential Changes’ that took place in Lisbon/Riga/Warsaw in 2024/25. Each drawing relates to a particular encounter/conversation that visual artist Eva Vēvere had during the symposium with its participants and organisers. The full series of drawings can be found in @_glandwr_ bio! 📸images courtesy of the artist and @valdisjansons #evavēvere @parsejournal @_glandwr_ @debi_p_a_u_l

Thrilled to share how energizing our recent joint presentation “Sweating Together: collective care, olfactory politics, labor, and interconnectedness” at Some Like It Hot (Parse Journal- University of Gothenburg) has been. We even had matching boilersuits! Collaborating with the artist and researcher Elektra Stampoulou @oh.so.many.narratives was truly inspiring. Together, we explored sweat as a lens for understanding radical interdependence, drawing from our research in the historic Bath House of the Winds - Museum of Modern Greek Culture in Athens (May-August 2025) @museumofmoderngreekculture @counterpoints_gr where shared heat once cultivated community, inclusion and repair. Thank you everyone for coming, for your feedback and energy! Thank you @atoposcvc for your support & @theodora.vasileiadou for hosting me! Abstract below: Curator Eleni Riga (Office of Hydrocommons) and artist-researcher Elektra Stampoulou, reimagine sweat not as an unwanted by-product but as a sign of radical interdependence and shared embodiment amid inequality. They present research from the project Hyperhidrosis: Sweating Together, exhibited in Athens’ Bath House of the Winds—the city’s sole preserved Ottoman hammam—employing sweat as a lens to examine bodily, social, and environmental ecologies. Riga frames the Ottoman Bath as a model of collective care, where shared heat fostered inclusion, resilience, and repair. Drawing on Mediterranean histories of slowness and interdependency, she connects these architectures to contemporary practices of solidarity in an overheated world. Stampoulou’s thirsty towels explores the olfactory politics of sweat in Athens and the shifting smellscapes of our bodies. Through fieldwork, participatory distillation, and storytelling, she attempts to compose a decentralized olfactory archive, tracing how the scent of sweat intersects with labor, class, ethnicity, and solidarity, imagination, and care.

Thank you to PARSE for inviting me to speak. I shared my research, “Mapping Heat: Textiles, Coal, and Time,” which explores coal as both a material and a metaphor, and how hand embroidery can trace different forms of heat: geological, political, and personal. Drawing on the idea of cosmic background radiation, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, I consider how history, labour, and migration also leave residues that never entirely disappear. Through slow, repetitive stitching, I map deep time, memory, and the energies that continue to shape our world. Generously supported by the @royalcollegeofart RKE Conference fund. Image 1: A Portraits of Coal Image 2: Studio view Image 3: Process Image 4: Cosmic Microwave Background Image 5: A Portrait of Coal Image 6: Nan & Pop, Newtongrange 1957 Image 7: Lithuanian Miners, Lanarkshire 1913 Image 8: Coal Seams, making Image 9: Battle of Orgreave, 18 June 1984 Image 10: Research documents Image 11: Coal Seams, detail, 2021 Image 12: Donkey Jacket at the a Miner Strike Image 13: Coal Seam Image 14: Preparatory drawings Image 15: Coal Seams, Installation view at The Whitaker, Rossendale Image 17: installation view Image 18: Light Abstract, 2018 Image 19: A Portrait of Coal The 6th biennial PARSE conference (November 12-14, 2025) hosted by the Artistic Faculty at the University of Gothenburg will address the topic of HEAT. @hdk_valand @parsejournal In an era of escalating ecological crises and ever-increasing intensities, heat has global but unequal impacts. Driven by advanced capitalism, fossil-fuel dependency, and digital consumption, heat is a literal threat to the lives of many. Yet heat can also be the manifestation of embodied exuberance, generative pressure, and a catalyst for transformation. As such, heat is a tangible warning, a symbol of urgency, an ingredient of change, and an attribute of pleasure. #textiles #embroideryart #contemporarytextiles #artresearch #textileartist #craftandconcept #slowmaking #deepTime #cosmology #coalhistory #materialmemory #mappingtime #stitchingspace

Attending the Platform for Artistic Research in Sweden @parsejournal Conference "Some Like it Hot" at the Gothenburg University Artistic Facility. Impressions from day 1 of the conference, wonderful to meet some old friends and make new ones.

SOME LIKE IT HOT 🔥 I have a suitcase full of bronze, glass and lead and i’m off to Gothenburg, Sweden for the biennial PARSE Art research conference! On Thursday i’m going to be talking about a little panel I have been working on as part of a bigger project called ‘Boiling Point’ it tells the story of a little lady who accidentally summons a demon after stepping into a crucible of molten bronze… discussing hot metal casting rituals and myths surrounding gender and my explorations of integrating three dimensional cast metal and blown glass components into stained glass 🔥 #stainedglass #hotmetal #parseconference

season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ☁️ so so excited to be playing music in some new places this month! *CORRECTIONS* 8/11 studio neau and 10/11 salon de jazz. 📷 @olivia.noss 💖

New episode of Adventures in Concrete radio is now up on @parsejournal 📡🛠️✨ Thank you @rosebrander & @ljurhalla.fabriken for hosting this episode, making it happen and keeping me hydrated through the show 🫶🏼 With contributions from musique concrète pioneers, to Jasmine Babers on the concrete ceilings that women of color have to break through, to Nina Sarnelle’s reflections on concrete structures and colonial sand extractivism - and more 🛠️🏭 You can listen in full at /article/adventures-in-concrete/ —— this radio show is part of the amazing Close Attention series happen at PARSE this year 💫 #AdventuresInConcrete #CloseAttention #PARSE

Parse journal Issue #20 Feminist Art: Practices of Co-Existences⁠ Editors: Basia Sliwinska & Margarida Brito Alves⁠ ⁠ 1 - The full sketch of the morning 2 - Cutouts as what stayed: * 'I see it everywhere, women work[sic] too much' * Reverberations * Collective knowledge production as a care network * open peer-review as an invitation for dialogue * writing, weaving and walking together * the material infrastructures of intimaticy * to witness * to re-orient All articles here /issue_post/feminist-art-practices-of-co-existences/ Jessica Hemmings and Rose Brander @PARSEJournal Alexandra Kokoli amkokoli Rebecca Mayo Ana Pérez-Quiroga @anaperez_quiroga Eva Vēvere @Eva Vēvere Dominika Łabądź @dominika_labadz & Małgorzata Markiewicz @malgosiamarkiewicz Marta Branco Guerreiro @martabguerreiro & Katarzyna Laskowska @katarzyna_laskowska_art Anna Markowska @anna.markowska.hop.hop Catherine Dormor Paula Chambers @paulaschambers #PARSEJournal⁠ #sketchnotes

Perfect day joining in with Stewardship and Structures: Enacting, Regenerating and Maintaining at LjurhallaFabriken.   With artists Andreas Engman, Sean Roy Parker & Eva Rowson. LjurhallaFabriken is a repurposed factory, now artspace, created by Rachel Barron & Nathan Clydesdale, located in rural Vårgårda outside Göteborg.

Next week! #AdventuresInConcrete is back! In Gothenburg! A new live Adventures in Concrete radio show next week 📡🛠️✨ Together with nourishing contributions from @fermental_health & Andreas Engman at @ljurhalla.fabriken — a non-profit organisation and resource centre for art and design, based within a 1930s factory and surrounding forest in rural Vårgårda 🏭 Thank you so much to @rosebrander @parsejournal for including the concrete adventures in this amazing series of research and reading “Close Attention” — which aims to emphasize deep listening, careful observation and ways of working which usually go unnoticed or undervalued but hold the potential for transformational change. #AdventuresInConcrete #ParseJournal #CloseAttention

Join us for the Opening of HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery (University of Greenwich) on Tuesday July 15th (6-8pm) for a group exhibition that explores how artists respond to, thematise and critique wellness narratives in the workplace. Artists include @beaglesramsay who will be showing an enlarged version of ‘Happy End of’, originally shown as one of six digital images for the ‘Work’ issue of Parse Journal (Volume 9., Spring 2019) @parsejournal . #harderbetterfasterstronger #beaglesandramsay #contemporaryart #greenwich #stephenlawrencegallery #greenwichuniversity #digitalimage #3dgaminganimationsoftware #happyendof #work #parsejournal #britishacademy #readingschoolofart #henleybusinessschool #exhibition