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| One of 2021 Newbery Prize winning Textiles designer Kialy Tihngang’s “Useless Machines” which Professor Macbeth will touch on in her keynote speech at the 2021 Textile and Place conference |
Glasgow School of Art Director, Professor Penny Macbeth, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2021 Textile and Place conference next week. Led by internationally renowned textile artist and Professor of Textile Art, Alice Kettle, and hosted by Manchester School of Art, the conference also features contributions from Turner Prize-winning artist, Lubaina Himid and Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw. Professor Macbeth will give her keynote talk, on The Glasgow School of Art and Textiles, on Thursday 14 October.
The Textile and Place conference 2021, which will take place online, will explore the politics of textiles: how textiles describe and map specific places and broader ideas about location, which relate to traditional methods of making and memories. It will examine how textiles carries within its fabric and in its production, the stories of trade, the transmission of histories, the crossing of cultural boundaries, of migration, and postcolonialism.
The word ‘politics’ is used as a broad term to indicate how textiles is implicated, in particular places, is part of the relationships between groups or organisations and used to confront issues of power. Textiles can fix us to a place and be part of the process of making change.
This is the second edition of The Textile and Place conference, following the inaugural event in 2018. The initiative was conceived and convened jointly by Professor Penny Macbeth and Professor Alice Kettle.
Further details on the conference: www.textileandplace.co.uk