practising contingency
between music and textile
artistic research2024
A collaboration with Elisabetha Engel and Rebecca Cuschera.
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 an open-ended exercise, shaped by experience, context, textile medium, material, and so on. As we continued our research, historical and cultural resonances — such as singing weavers in ancient Greece or rhythm-based pattern notation in Iranian Naqshe Khani — emerged as contingent relations with our own exercises, revealing that the intersection of music and textile may be less coincidental than it seems.
The outcomes of this research project were presented at CREA, Amsterdam in January 2024.