Kawita Vatanajyankur transforms her own body into a shuttle for a human-sized weaving loom, becoming a carrier for the yarn which forms a woven fabric. The artist’s ‘Performing Textiles’ series highlights human labour and repetition embedded in large-scale textile production.
Festival 2026
Shuttle
Thailand, 2018
Directed by
Kawita Vatanajyankur
Kawita Vatanajyankur
Running time
3 mins
3 mins
Tickets
2 May 2026, 12:30 PM
Past Event
Museum of the Home

Kawita Vatanajyankur
Kawita Vatanajyankur is a Thai video and performance artist who uses her body as a medium, transforming herself into tools, objects, and machines. Through live and filmed endurance-based performances, she critiques the social structures surrounding domestic, agricultural, and industrial labour. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally.