Image credits: Kate Egan & Brendan Dawes, The Jack Plug Universe (2018)
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.
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.
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CALL FOR PAPER IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you to all that submitted an abstracts. We will notify successful applicants once the peer-review process has been completed (around the 3rd week of January 2020).
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 paper or 5-minute pecha-kutcha) or film synopsis (up to 350 words) for peer-review together with a short bio to textileandplace@gmail.com by the 14th of November 2019.
Successful applicants will be notified by end of 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.
THE CALL FOR PAPER IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you to all that submitted an abstracts. We will notify successful applicants once the peer-review process has been completed (around the 3rd week of January 2020).
Suggestions for proposals of papers, panel discussions or film features include but are not limited to:
- Textiles as a medium of protest and activism.
- Textile sites which represent migration and globalisation.
- Narratives of community and social interaction encountered through textiles.
- Responsibility, textiles and the places we live.
Please submit an abstract (up to 350 words for a 20-minute paper or 5-minute pecha-kutcha) or film synopsis (up to 350 words) for peer-review together with a short bio to textileandplace@gmail.com by the 14th of November 2019.
Successful applicants will be notified by end of 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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