After Library III_Sweet Water - A Chicas Library Cow Hot Press Workshop

Join the Chicas Library Cow Hot Press Station, a full-day workshop in which stories and texts are shared and participants work together on designing and making textiles. With readings from Mexican feminist texts and South African resistance histories as a starting point.

The CLCHP-station is a collaboration between the After Library and denisse vega de santiago of Hairy Cow Press and Zyanya Arellano of Chicas Hot, bringing together the focus of both projects on text, textile, and collective imagination.

About the After Library

the After Library (2025–), a small, experimental library of clothing and books. The library brings together collective reading with speculative design and the way clothing is worn and lived. The After Library was initiated by Thulile Gamedze and is continued here in collaboration with Tlotliso Skefu. The garments from the library are designed and made in response to texts chosen by friends. Subsequently, combinations of garments and books are lent out for short periods to a small but growing circle of friends and collaborators — and their friends and collaborators, and so on. The goal of the After Library is for the materials to be worn and read, and for these lending processes to be recorded as social histories of wearing: as embodied and dialogical reading experiences, but also as stylish moments.

The After Library is part of TOOLSHED, a residency and research program of Kunstinstituut Melly that investigates which tools we use today to shape, challenge, and transform cultural institutions.