Image credits: Kate Egan & Brendan Dawes, The Jack Plug Universe (2018)
TEXTILE AND PLACE 2020 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
As a result of the rapidly developing health situation surrounding COVID-19, we feel it is sensible to postpone Textile and Place 2020 for the foreseeable future.
We have several International speakers who are unable to travel and the situation is rapidly developing. It is disappointing, we have an extraordinary line up of speakers and we will be in touch with you to reschedule at a suitable date in the future.
WE WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH ALL SPEAKERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.
As a result of the rapidly developing health situation surrounding COVID-19, we feel it is sensible to postpone Textile and Place 2020 for the foreseeable future.
We have several International speakers who are unable to travel and the situation is rapidly developing. It is disappointing, we have an extraordinary line up of speakers and we will be in touch with you to reschedule at a suitable date in the future.
WE WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH ALL SPEAKERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.
TEXTILE AND PLACE
23rd and 24th April 2020
Manchester School of Art
Manchester Metropolitan University
23rd and 24th April 2020
Manchester School of Art
Manchester Metropolitan University
Textile and Place 2020 explores the politics of textiles. Hosted by Manchester School of Art, the conference builds upon the debates from the first Textile and Place conference which took place in 2018.
The conference explores how textiles describes and maps places through traditional methods of making, through memory and through site-specific and community-based practices. It examines how textiles carries within its fabric and in its production, the stories of trade, the transmission of histories, the crossing of cultural boundaries, of migration, and postcolonialism. We use the word politics as a broad term to indicate how textiles is implicated in particular places and is part of the relationships between groups or organisations and used to confront issues of power. Textiles can fix us to a place and also be part of the process of making change.
The conference seeks to examine how textiles enables connections between sociability and communities; is a medium of protest and engages with alternative narratives; participates in economies of production, and the environment. Providing context for discussion is Manchester’s rich textiles histories as well as today’s political challenges which are contributing to shaping our everyday lives.
WE ARE PLEASE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MARIA BALSHAW, DIRECTOR of TATE, AND ROSY GREENLEES, DIRECTOR of CRAFT COUNCIL, WILL INTRODUCE THE CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY RESPECTIVELY.
The conference explores how textiles describes and maps places through traditional methods of making, through memory and through site-specific and community-based practices. It examines how textiles carries within its fabric and in its production, the stories of trade, the transmission of histories, the crossing of cultural boundaries, of migration, and postcolonialism. We use the word politics as a broad term to indicate how textiles is implicated in particular places and is part of the relationships between groups or organisations and used to confront issues of power. Textiles can fix us to a place and also be part of the process of making change.
The conference seeks to examine how textiles enables connections between sociability and communities; is a medium of protest and engages with alternative narratives; participates in economies of production, and the environment. Providing context for discussion is Manchester’s rich textiles histories as well as today’s political challenges which are contributing to shaping our everyday lives.
WE ARE PLEASE TO ANNOUNCE THAT MARIA BALSHAW, DIRECTOR of TATE, AND ROSY GREENLEES, DIRECTOR of CRAFT COUNCIL, WILL INTRODUCE THE CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY RESPECTIVELY.
REGISTRATION OPEN HERE
Tickets:
General admission: £125
All Students and MMU staff: £75
Conference Dinner at HOME (optional - 50 max capacity): £25 (3 course + wine)
Menu will be circulated at the beginning of April. Menu choices to be made by 12/04.
COVID-19 UPDATE
Visitors from outside of the UK should follow the local travel advice in their country of departure.
Please visit NHS website for the latest information.
We are following the lead of the public health authority (Public Health England - PHE) in our preparations for the coronavirus. Its current advice around domestic travel, office working, meetings and gatherings is to continue with business as usual.
News reports from around the world reflect differing strategies to contain and manage the virus. Please bear in mind that responses are determined by local conditions and policies.
Tickets:
General admission: £125
All Students and MMU staff: £75
Conference Dinner at HOME (optional - 50 max capacity): £25 (3 course + wine)
Menu will be circulated at the beginning of April. Menu choices to be made by 12/04.
COVID-19 UPDATE
Visitors from outside of the UK should follow the local travel advice in their country of departure.
Please visit NHS website for the latest information.
We are following the lead of the public health authority (Public Health England - PHE) in our preparations for the coronavirus. Its current advice around domestic travel, office working, meetings and gatherings is to continue with business as usual.
News reports from around the world reflect differing strategies to contain and manage the virus. Please bear in mind that responses are determined by local conditions and policies.
KEYNOTES
THURSDAY
Jessica Hemmings
Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. Her editorial and curatorial project, Cultural Threads, is a book about postcolonial thinking and contemporary textile practice (Bloomsbury: 2015) accompanied by a travelling exhibition Migrations (2015-2017). She is Professor of Crafts & Vice-Prefekt of Research at the Academy of Design & Crafts (HDK), University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Vic McEwan
Australian artist Vic McEwan is the curator of Tension(s) 2020, the Tamworth Textiles Triennial. He is the Artistic Director of The Cad Factory, with 15 years experience creating in-depth socially engaged arts practice. He is a board member of Music NSW, the peak body for Music in NSW, and sits on the NSW/ACT Arts and Health Leadership Group. Vic is in his second year as a PhD Candidate as a Contemporary Artist in The Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.
FRIDAY
Dr. Fionna Barber and Jools Gilson
Dr Fionna Barber is Reader in Art History at the Manchester School of Art. She is a contributor to Textile, Community, Controversy: the Knitting Map (eds. Jools Gilson and Nicola Moffatt, Bloomsbury 2019) and her research interests include the politics of feminist art practice, political contexts for art in Ireland since the early twentieth century, and the development of feminist temporalities. She has published widely on these and other areas of contemporary and twentieth century art practice. Her publications include Art in Ireland since 1910 (Reaktion Books 2013), the collection Ireland and the North co-edited with Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid (Peter Lang 2019) and ‘Brexit Wounds: Cultural responses to leaving the European Union’, a special edition of Open Arts Journal (Autumn 2019) co-edited with Eleanor Byrne. She is also the curator of the exhibition ‘Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women Artists and the Politics of the Female Body 1985-present’ for Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland (16 November 2019- 25 January 2020) and Limerick City Art Gallery, (6 February – 12 April 2020)
Jools Gilson is an artist who works across and between multiple disciplines; writing, choreography, installation and broadcast radio. Her 2005 work The Knitting Map is the subject of Textiles, Community & Controversy, published by Bloomsbury in 2019. She is Professor of Creative Practice at University College Cork.
Assadour Markarov
Professor in Fibre Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016.
THURSDAY
Jessica Hemmings
Jessica Hemmings writes about textiles. Her editorial and curatorial project, Cultural Threads, is a book about postcolonial thinking and contemporary textile practice (Bloomsbury: 2015) accompanied by a travelling exhibition Migrations (2015-2017). She is Professor of Crafts & Vice-Prefekt of Research at the Academy of Design & Crafts (HDK), University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Vic McEwan
Australian artist Vic McEwan is the curator of Tension(s) 2020, the Tamworth Textiles Triennial. He is the Artistic Director of The Cad Factory, with 15 years experience creating in-depth socially engaged arts practice. He is a board member of Music NSW, the peak body for Music in NSW, and sits on the NSW/ACT Arts and Health Leadership Group. Vic is in his second year as a PhD Candidate as a Contemporary Artist in The Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney.
FRIDAY
Dr. Fionna Barber and Jools Gilson
Dr Fionna Barber is Reader in Art History at the Manchester School of Art. She is a contributor to Textile, Community, Controversy: the Knitting Map (eds. Jools Gilson and Nicola Moffatt, Bloomsbury 2019) and her research interests include the politics of feminist art practice, political contexts for art in Ireland since the early twentieth century, and the development of feminist temporalities. She has published widely on these and other areas of contemporary and twentieth century art practice. Her publications include Art in Ireland since 1910 (Reaktion Books 2013), the collection Ireland and the North co-edited with Heidi Hansson and Sara Dybris McQuaid (Peter Lang 2019) and ‘Brexit Wounds: Cultural responses to leaving the European Union’, a special edition of Open Arts Journal (Autumn 2019) co-edited with Eleanor Byrne. She is also the curator of the exhibition ‘Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women Artists and the Politics of the Female Body 1985-present’ for Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland (16 November 2019- 25 January 2020) and Limerick City Art Gallery, (6 February – 12 April 2020)
Jools Gilson is an artist who works across and between multiple disciplines; writing, choreography, installation and broadcast radio. Her 2005 work The Knitting Map is the subject of Textiles, Community & Controversy, published by Bloomsbury in 2019. She is Professor of Creative Practice at University College Cork.
Assadour Markarov
Professor in Fibre Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016.
We would like to thank the peer review panel for their work and support: Dr Claire Barber, Dr Sian Bonnell, Professor Steve Dixon, Professor Kate Fletcher, Professor Catherine Harper, Professor Alice Kettle, Penny Macbeth, Professor Lesley Millar, Dr Annie Shaw.
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