practising contingencies between music and textile

artistic research2024
A collaboration with Elisabetha Engel and Rebecca Cuschera.

For this project I collaborated with two other textile artists. The realisation that we also share a musical background became the foundation for an exploration of translation methods between music scores and textile structures.

In line with translation scholar Lawrence Venuti’s interpretation of meaning as “a plural and contingent relation, not an unchanging unified essence,” we approached each translation as a situated and open-ended exercise. We therefore did not end up with a set of rules for how to translate between music scores and textile techniques, but rather, we discovered how situated knowledges can emerge within translation processes between music and weaving, knitting or felting.

The outcomes of this research project were presented at CREA, Amsterdam in January 2024.

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Textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. I work with textiles and other material forms as a way of thinking and researching. I thereby treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

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