Nicole Colin is Professor of German culture at Aix-Marseille University (AMU), Director of the German-French graduate school “Conflicts of cultures – cultures of conflicts” (AMU / University of Tübingen) and an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She works on German cultural history (with a focus on literature and theatre), the theory of cultural transfer, cultural exchange between France and Germany, cultural heritage and the sociology of cultural fields.
Textile Art: Crafting a Path to Inclusion and Equality
Speakers: Nicole Colin, Anca Poterașu, Aurora Kiraly, Megan Dominescu, Olivia Boeru, moderated by Joachim Umlauf.
December 10th, 19:00 – Goethe Pavilion, Calea Dorobanților 32
This talk is organized by ARAC and Goethe-Institut Bucharest in the framework of AFAR Network project.
Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR) is an EU co-funded project.The residency program aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators in Romania, Germany, Croatia, and Austria. The project is led by the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art (ARAC) with its three consortium partners – Goethe Institute Network, Croatian Association of Fine Artists, and Künstlerhaus Vienna.
About the project: The main topics are related to long-term cultural and social connections between local contexts, regarding cross-cutting themes of ecology and inclusion, specifically concerning wartime and economic migration of people. The project provides a range of new opportunities to art practitioners of all ages, across a variety of artistic mediums and backgrounds, with special regard to women in the arts and gender equality, to become involved in a series of artistic residencies, curatorial fellowships, artists& curators talks, and exhibitions where they can contribute and work together with their peers in creating self-sustainable models of mutual support and cooperation. This will be achieved through methods that include networking events, co-shared working spaces, case-study research of proposed models of residencies, knowledge-sharing between the partners in organizing residencies and public artist/curator talks, the development of an advocacy strategy for increased mobility of artists and curators in the consortium countries.
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
The event adresses everyone interested in textile art, as well as researchers, practicing artists, curators and other professionals.
Nicole Colin discusses the potential of textile art to serve as a medium for the development and promotion of inclusion and sustainability practices in contemporary society, the work “Textile Art as a Medium of Inclusion and Sustainability” being inspired by the revitalization of textile art, increasingly present in contemporary art representations and the main topic of the AFAR artist-in-residence program.
After the presentation, the evening continues with a round table with the participation of cultural workers in the field of textile art – Aurora Kiraly, Anca Poterașu, Megan Dominescu, UNARTE professor Lector univ. dr. Otilia Boeru and is moderated by Joachim Umlauf, director of the Goethe-Institut Bucharest.
more details on the topic: https://www.afarnetwork.com/afartalk-textileart/