TEXTILES & PLACE
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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.
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Maria Balshaw

The Director of the Tate and former Director
of the Whitworth, University of Manchester
​and Manchester City Galleries. 

Rosy Greenlees 

OBE Executive Director of
​the Crafts Council. 

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Penny Macbeth

Director of the Glasgow School of Art and former Dean of Manchester School of Art and co-curator of Textile and Place conference 2018.
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  • Textile & Conference 2021
  • About
  • Pre Registration
  • Conference Fringe Programme
  • Journal
  • Past Events
    • 2018 Conference >
      • Call for Papers 2018
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    • Lucy Orta