From Tehran to Thisted via Textiles: Interviews with two textile artists on textile as a successful foundation and privileged ground for co-creation and memory

Bidragets oversatte titel: Fra Tehran til Thisted igennem tekstiler: interviews med to tekstilkunstnere om tekstil som værdifuld base og priviligeret medie for samskabelse og minder

Else Skjold, Marie Louise Bech Nosch

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Abstract

The departure of this article is two textile artworks created within the framework of the Fabric of My Life project by Solveig Søndergaard (DK) and Rezvan Farsijani (FR). The themes of the artworks evolve around craftmanship and heritage and the passing on of texiles skills between generations which is one of the central themes of the research project. The article opens with examples of female textile artists of the 20th Century, displaying how textiles skills have been employed as a tool for empowerment of women, leading then up to similar feminist movements of the early 21st Century such as craftivism and mending, or the pussy hat movement. It then bridges to a framing of the two respective artists that have been working to formulate artistic responses to the activities of Fabric of My Life. As such, their artworks are embedded in the podcast-series of the project consisting of interviews about cross-generational and cross-border experiences tied up to particular garments. The remaining article is shaped as interviews with the artists departuring in their artworks ‘Promise of Dawn’ (Farsijani) and ‘Stitched Stories’ (Søndergaard). The interview focuses not only on the artworks and how they have been inspired by the Fabric of My Life but also of the individual experiences of the artists of textiles skills being passed over from their own family.
Bidragets oversatte titelFra Tehran til Thisted igennem tekstiler: interviews med to tekstilkunstnere om tekstil som værdifuld base og priviligeret medie for samskabelse og minder
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer5
TidsskriftArtex Journal
Vol/bind1
Sider (fra-til)67-78
Antal sider11
ISSN2944-9650
StatusUdgivet - 1 aug. 2022

Emneord

  • modest fashion
  • textiles
  • artistic development
  • textile art

Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)

  • Nej

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