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THE POLITICS OF CLOTH
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 cloth. Hosted by Manchester School of Art, the conference builds upon the debates from the first Textile and Place conference which took place in 2018.
Place as a setting is both a fixed and mutable concept, defined by its physical aspect and its constituency of people. The ubiquity and portability of textiles are central to all lived experience imprinted by geographical specificity and impacted by transactions between one place and another. We use the word politics as a broad term to indicate how textiles is implicated in communities and is part of the relationships between groups or organisations with issues of power.
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, sustainable futures 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.
Place as a setting is both a fixed and mutable concept, defined by its physical aspect and its constituency of people. The ubiquity and portability of textiles are central to all lived experience imprinted by geographical specificity and impacted by transactions between one place and another. We use the word politics as a broad term to indicate how textiles is implicated in communities and is part of the relationships between groups or organisations with issues of power.
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, sustainable futures 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.
KEYNOTES
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.
Assadour Markarov
Professor in Fibre Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016.
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.
Assadour Markarov
Professor in Fibre Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; Curator of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Suggestions for proposals of papers, panel discussions or film features include but are not limited to:
Please submit an abstract (up to 350 words for a 20-minute presentation or 5-minute pecha-kutcha) or film synopsis (up to 350 words) together with a short bio to textileandplace@gmail.com by Friday 8th of November 2019.
Successful applicants will be notified by mid-January 2020.
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY
The papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
We welcome papers from, textile artists, artists exploring textiles among other materials, designers, academics, early career researchers, art, fashion and textile historians, curators and archivists, ECRs, PhD candidates.
We also welcome short films and audio-visual work that explore textiles and place for our ‘Film as textile site’ space.
Suggestions for proposals of papers, panel discussions or film features include but are not limited to:
- The place of textiles in connecting narratives of protest, activism and political action.
- Textiles sites for the representations of migration and the globalised world.
- Narratives of wellness, community and the social encountered within site-specific textiles.
- Textiles as a place for sustainable futures: from alternative models of production to environmental issues explored through cloth.
Please submit an abstract (up to 350 words for a 20-minute presentation or 5-minute pecha-kutcha) or film synopsis (up to 350 words) together with a short bio to textileandplace@gmail.com by Friday 8th of November 2019.
Successful applicants will be notified by mid-January 2020.
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY
The papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture.
WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE?
We welcome papers from, textile artists, artists exploring textiles among other materials, designers, academics, early career researchers, art, fashion and textile historians, curators and archivists, ECRs, PhD candidates.
We also welcome short films and audio-visual work that explore textiles and place for our ‘Film as textile site’ space.
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