Ponto: Textile Art in Perspective
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal
June 12 & 13, 2021
online lecture Sunday June 13 @ 2pm GMT

Textile-specific in a Post-disciplinary Era

The increasing presence of textiles in more mainstream art events leaves us with difficult questions about where to locate and value skill today. In a post-disciplinary era of events and education, what may be lost and what remains to be gained in remaining textile-specific?

image home page: installation view of Kärt Ojavee and Johanna Ulfsak, Save As exhibition at the Temnikova & Kasela, Talinn, Estonia. (August 31 – October 27, 2018). Hand woven PVC, glass fibre, optical fibre and carbon fibre.