Exploring cloth as a record of experience and its role in communicating our identities, this book presents cloth within its social, historical, psychological and cultural context.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prof Lesley Millar (UCA Farnham, UK) and Prof Alice Kettle, (MSARC, Manchester School of Art Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Part One: Reading the Record
1. Tenapi: Markers of Clan Identity of the Alurung, East Indonesia
Linda S. McIntosh (Independent Curator and Research Associate, Tracing Patterns Foundation, and Yulianti Peni, Curator, Museum 1000 Moko, Alor Regency, Indonesia)
2. The Powerful Whispers project: A re-imagined story of Mills, Menders and Archived Family Memories
Robert Burton (Associate Dean Academic, Teesside University, UK)
3. Drapery and napery: lace war memorials
Dr Carol Quarini (Independent Artist Researcher UK)
4. Cloth, Nationalism and Cultural Identity: The Symbolism of Traditional Attire in Defining Nigeria's Diverse Ethnic Indigenism
Dr Clement Emeka Akpang (Cross River University of Technology Nigeria)
Artist Maria Nepomuceno in conversation with Alice Kettle, Part 1
Part Two: Following the Thread
5. Robe a la Grand-Mere: The Reuse of 18th century Silks in Romantic-era Fashion
Ruby Hodgson (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK)
6. Layers of Comfort: Shetland taatit rugs
Carol Christiansen (Curator and Community Museums Officer, Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, Shetland)
7. Making of Kediyun: A Conscious Approach to Cloth
Lokesh Ghai (Independent Artist/ Researcher India)
8. Transformations in the Making and Meaning of Barkcloth in Uganda
Venny Mary Nakazibwe (Makerere University, Margaret Trowell School of Industrial & Fine Art, College of Engineering Design Art and Technology, Kampala, Uganda)
Artist Maria Nepomuceno in conversation with Alice Kettle, Part 2
Part Three: Challenging the Reading
9. Small Acts of Refusal: Suffragette-embroidered Cloths worked in Holloway Prison
Dr Denise Jones (Independent Artist Researcher UK)
10. Stitching Justice: Textiles as a Means for Contemporary Social Justice
Alicia Decker (Iowa State University, Portland State University, Centralia College USA) and Susan T. Avila
11. Film as Fabric: Textile practice as Feminist Critique in Expanded Cinema
Dr Mary Stark (Independent Artist/Researcher, UK)
12. Cuttings 1820 - 2020
Pippa Hetherington (Independent Artist/Researcher, South Africa)
Artist Celia Pym in conversation with Lesley Millar, Part 1
Part Four: Drafting the Future
13. Portraying a Practice: Communication E-textiles
Hannah Perner-Wilson (Guest Professor of the Spiel & Objekt Masters program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin Germany), Becca Rose Glowacki (doctoral student at Goldsmiths, University of London), Irene Posch (Professor of Design & Technology at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria),
Laura Devendorf (Assistant Professor of Information Science, ATLAS Institute Fellow, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
14. Cloth, Techné , and Traces in Digital Fashion
Katharina Sand (Kunstuniversitä t Linz A/ Università della Svizzera italiana CH)
15. The Coded Lab
Dr Sonja Andrew (University of Leeds, UK)
16. Piñ atex® : A New Material for a New World
Dr Carmen Hijosa (InnovationRCA and founder of Piñ atex®)
Artist Celia Pym in conversation with Lesley Millar, Part 2
Index
