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Entangled — Texts On Textiles (2025)

Anne Szefer Karlsen
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The collaborative process that has fostered the texts in this anthology started with two questions: What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? Curatorial practices vary just as much as do curators’ interest in and capacity for writing. At the same time, there are prevailing opinions about, and institutional demands on, what kinds of texts curators should provide for audiences, for instance as contributions to art discourses in the form of catalogue essays and the like. The Community of Writers was set up to create time and space to retreat from these outside opinions and demands and to let curiosity and the joy of writing be the driving forces of the writing process. I have had the pleasure of leading this process and am indebted to the individuals who formed the Community of Writers for newfound insights into textile art and the role of textiles in society. The writing process challenged the contributors’ own writing practices, sparked their enthusiasm, playfulness and criticality pushed the project further. Our conversations have deepened and become more entangled over time, and the reader can find traces of this in the texts in this volume.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsKMD_Art
date17/10/2025
published03/12/2025
last modified03/12/2025
statuspublished
affiliationFaculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
copyrightAnne Szefer Karlsen
licenseCC BY-NC-SA
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3942909/3942910
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/kmd-ar.3942909
published inFaculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
portal issue10. Projects


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