FFS 400

This seminar presents a focused exploration of the ephemeral and material links between textiles and bodies in contemporary culture. Textiles are the raw materials for everyday dress as well as high-end couture, but they are also the means by which fibre and/or conceptual artists, craftspeople and other practitioners explore meaningful discourses in the art world, articulate social relations and bring meditative ritual to the hands and bodies of makers. This course will embrace both written and/or creative outcomes—exploring tensions between practice and theory, and the embodiment of textiles as a form of conceptual becoming.