Needle and Thread – A Soft Discourse
22/10 5-8 pm CET
For the Global Fashioning Assembly 2024 we’re focused on the concept of soft arts and softness in relation to designer/artistic practice based on soft materials. Relationships between text(ile) and body, text(ile) and politics, text(ile) and performance are activated by the concept of softness as a radical alternative to dominant institutional structures and often rigid art/fashion systems. As part of our project BoSA - Briefing on Soft Arts we invited artist Marielle MacLeman to produce new work that explores the cultural and industrial heritage of textiles and clothing in Croatia and Ireland. The discussion will reflect on the role of (in)visible and often anonymous female needlework, history and contemporary relevance of cottage industries and local textile traditions in both contexts.
Speakers: Marielle MacLeman, Kate Strain (Kunstverein Aughrim) and Orla Callaghan
Moderator: Lea Vene
Photo: Freddie Greenall
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GFA is partly funded by the Stimuleringsfonds and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.
