Description
The Textile Beyond Craft symposium aims to foster a dialogue within emerging practices in textile design as part of the Textile Design Now | Design textile actuel exhibition. Highlights include the keynote speakers >Carla Hemlock, the Mohawk textile artist, Reiko Sudō, designer and director emeritus of NUNO Textiles Japan, as well as theo tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston.
Dates
Exhibition vernissage
November 29th, 2023 at 18h
Exhibition
November 30th, 2023 to February 11th, 2024
Symposium
Thursday, November 30th, and Friday, December 1st, 2023
Symposium Organizers
Vanessa Mardirossian
Textile Design Lecturer (UQAM) and PhD candidate (Concordia University), Montreal.
Fabienne Münch
Professor and Department Chair – Design (The Ohio State University), Columbus, Ohio.
Scientific Committee
Louise Pelletier
Professor – École de Design (UQAM), Montreal.
Christina Contandriopoulos
Professor – Art History (UQAM), Montreal.
Katharina Sand
Visiting professor (AMD Akademie Mode & Design), Munich.
Audience
This symposium is aimed at researchers, students, artists, textile enthusiasts, as well as the general public eager to explore this constantly evolving discipline.
Objectives
- Engage the community in interdisciplinary conversations focused on the proposed themes.
- Foster productive exchanges between textile design theorists, practitioners and educators.
- Map emerging international reflections, initiatives, and practices in textile design to advance and disseminate knowledge.
- Co-build international expertise and network to exchange and spark collaborations around textiles.
- Explore relevant pedagogical approaches for further inclusion in contemporary textile design teaching.
- Initiate dialogues on textile materiality that female textile designers lead across diverse fields of expertise.
Schedule
November 30th
Morning
8h30 am | Welcome + coffee
9h00 am | Keynote by Carla Hemlock : Our fires are still burning
10h00 am | Roundtable : Reflections on the Montreal Scene (moderator : Christina Contandriopoulos) Édith-Anne Pageot; Michaëlle Sergile; Berirouche Feddal
11h00 am | Roundtable : Tradition/Innovation (moderator: Fabienne Münch) : Hiroko Takeda; Estelle Bourdet; Marie Schumann
Afternoon
2h00 pm | Conference by Vanessa Mardirossian : Textile Ecoliteracy - Towards Weaving Expertise
3h30 pm | Workshop by Anke Loh : Embroidered Touch (mandatory registration)
PAUSE
5h00 pm | Keynote by theo tyson : Designing Women
6h00 pm | Meet the Speakers
December 1st
Morning
8h30 am | Welcome + coffee
9h15 am | Workshop by Cécile Feilchenfeldt : Yarn architecture (mandatory registration)
9h15 to 11h00 am | Exhibition tour and interaction between Keynote artists and the audience
11h00 am | Roundtable : Emotion/Color/Texture (moderator: Vanessa Mardirossian) : Louise Lemieux Bérubé; Cécile Feilchenfeldt; Julia Moser.
Afternoon
2h00 pm | Roundtable : Experimentation/Interaction (moderator: Katharina Sand) : Felecia Davis; A+N Studio; Mari Koppanen
3h00 pm | Networking
4h00 pm | Keynote by Reiko Sudō : No-waste textile production: Every last scrap used (Live from Japan)
5h30 pm | Closing Remarks