This site-specific installation engages with "craftivism", an activist approach that uses textile crafts as a critical lens to interrogate the socio-economic impacts of capitalism. How many, how fast? reflects on the decline of traditional material crafts under the pressures of mass production and overconsumption, foregrounding the relationship between labor, materiality, and obsolescence.

Through the interplay of paper, thread, and machinery, the work stages a dialogue between the past and present. The embroidery, applied to printed text on Arches paper, evokes the slow, deliberate nature of handcraft, contrasting it with the mechanical efficiency of the printing press and the dormant loom. These forgotten objects are reanimated through their encounter with thread, symbolizing a reclamation of craft’s inherent value in an age of disposability.

By bringing together thread and paper—two materials emblematic of labor and communication—the installation forms a material alliance against abandonment. The act of stitching becomes a metaphor for care and repair, resisting the erasure of artisanal practices while inviting reflection on the costs of overproduction. Positioned within a critical posthumanist framework, How many, how fast? underscores the agency of materials and machines in shaping cultural narratives, while reasserting the value of embodied, deliberate processes in contemporary art and society.