The Textile and Place conference explores the politics of textiles. Hosted by Manchester School of Art, it is led by Alice Kettle, Professor of Textile Arts, with support from Rachel Kelly and Kate Egan. The 2021 conference is completely online and builds upon the debates from the first Textile and Place conference which took place in 2018. This second conference spans 5 days with talks, academic papers, discussions, panels, in conversations, films, and exhibitions from international and local contributors.
In 2021 we are delighted to be partnering with the British Textile Biennial.
The conference explores how textiles describes and maps specific places and broader ideas about location, which relate to traditional methods of making, memories 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 be part of the process of making change.
The conference looks at how textiles enable connections between sociability and communities; is a medium of protest and engages with alternative narratives; participates in economies of production, and the environment. The context and backdrop for all this discussion is Manchester’s rich textile histories as well as today’s challenges, where textiles are woven into changemaking.
www.textileandplace.co.uk
In 2021 we are delighted to be partnering with the British Textile Biennial.
The conference explores how textiles describes and maps specific places and broader ideas about location, which relate to traditional methods of making, memories 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 be part of the process of making change.
The conference looks at how textiles enable connections between sociability and communities; is a medium of protest and engages with alternative narratives; participates in economies of production, and the environment. The context and backdrop for all this discussion is Manchester’s rich textile histories as well as today’s challenges, where textiles are woven into changemaking.
www.textileandplace.co.uk
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