TRANSITION AND INFLUENCE: the interface between cloth and culture
'Cloth is the universal free element. It doesn’t
have to explain itself. It performs.'*
The emergence of what could be considered ‘global’ artistic
practice has not automatically created cross-cultural understanding.
However, it seems that cloth provides a continuous undercurrent
between cultures; it is both common to all cultures and culture-specific.
Textile has a social, political and utilitarian history, moving
across and between continents and peoples. It is a shared activity
that stirs both conscious and unconscious memory. It is a language
connecting practitioners in different cultures, as evidenced in
their approaches and practice.
The Transition and Influence website sets out to disseminate projects
highlighting the best and most exciting contemporary textile practice
in the UK, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, with particular
reference to textile as a both a culture specific and trans-cultural
language.
These projects have been initiated by Lesley
Millar through the University for the Creative Arts, the most recent
being Cloth & Culture
NOW, a major publication and exhibition. Please see below for
new exhibition dates. Previously shown at the Sainsbury Centre
for Visual Arts Norwich until 1st June 2008 and then at the Whitworth
Art Gallery Manchester, 17th September – 14th
December 2008.
For more information about Cloth & Culture NOW,
other projects and associated publications, click on the tool bar
above.
*Tom Lubbock 'The secret life of cloth' The Independent
18/6/02
NEWS
CULTEX
The exhibition outcome of the CULTEX project
was Opened by His Excellency Ambassador Yamaguchi, Japanese Ambassador
to Norway, on April 4th 2009. It will run at Gallery F15, Jeløya,
Norway until June 14th 2009. For more information please visit
the News Page
HAPTIC FOCUS:
April – September,
England and Scotland
For further information
on all of the Haptic Focus events please visit the
news archive
page
Desconocida : Unknown
Exhibition at The Gallery UCA Epsom February
10th – March
20th 2009
A political art project, devised, organised
and performed by the Norwegian textile and performance artist
Lise Bjørne Linnert,
highlighting women’s fight against abuse, femicides and human
trafficking.
For more about the Exhibition plese visit the news
archive page
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