Needle and Thread – A Soft Discourse GFA24

Global Fashioning Assembly

The conversation about female needlework, cottage industries and local textile traditions in Croatia and Ireland.

GFA24 Global Fashioning Assembly 2024

A GLOBAL NETWORK OF LOCAL FASHIONING COALITIONS TO DECENTRALISE & DECOLONISE FASHION KNOWLEDGE, CREATION AND SHARING

CIMO is a nonprofit organisation based in Zagreb, Croatia. CIMO is researching the theoretical and creative aspects of fashion and clothing as part of contemporary visual culture. For the GFA24 we’re focused on the concept of soft arts and softness in relation to designer/artistic practice based on soft materials. Relationships between text(ile) and body, text(ile) and politics, text(ile) and performance are activated by the concept of softness as a radical alternative to dominant institutional structures and often rigid art/fashion systems. As part of our project BoSA - Briefing on Soft Arts we invited artist Marielle MacLeman to produce new work that explores the cultural and industrial heritage of textiles and clothing in Croatia and Ireland. The discussion will reflect on the role of (in)visible and often anonymous female needlework, history and contemporary relevance of cottage industries and local textile traditions in both contexts.

The Global Fashioning Assemby (GFA) is a biennial online gathering of local fashion coalitions from around the world to decenter and decolonise knowledge creation and sharing on body fashioningpractices and heritages.GFA was initiated in 2021 by the <a href="https://rcdfashion.wordpress.com/" title="https://rcdfashion.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Research Collective on Decoloniality &amp; Fashion</a> (RCDF), a not-for-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands.Support GFA with donations by using QR-code above, <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=K3X9W7PJJXFF8" title="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=K3X9W7PJJXFF8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paypal</a> or bank transfer (IBAN: NL39INGB0674877012/ BIC: INGBNL2A)

Agenda 1

Speakers: Marielle MacLeman, Kate Strain (Kunstverein Aughrim) and Orla Callaghan
                  Moderator: Lea Vene

Presentations and discussions

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