WEAVING SCRIPTING WRITING Introduction It can be argued that - PDF document

WEAVING SCRIPTING WRITING

Introduction It can be argued that along with cave paintings, Literature, fj lm, and technology will guide and frame textiles are the fj rst expressive artform. It is no the way we look at these processes of making and we coincidence that societies with no tradition of written will use our own hands and bodies to delve into each language, have produced some of the fj nnest and theme. most sophisticated textiles in history. Oral myths, as well as cosmological and religious believes were all Weaving, scripting and writing share similar structural recorded with threads; stories woven from yarn into methodologies; threads, codes and words carefully cloth. According to Seth Siegelaub, textiles provide entwine to become something much greater than the key information into the society in which they were sum of their parts. They manifest a desire to grasp and produced–from its territory to its social specrum. To describe our understanding of the world. weave is therefore to write. Thus the act of weaving is essential to the culture in which it is formed, Based in Zürich, we will make day trips to visit materialising the collective mindset of a society. weavers, scriptures and writers. Along the week, we will investigate the art of the loom from the smallest This new series of seminar weeks explores our to the largest of its incarnations, familiarise ourselves physical and emotional connection with the world with the secrets of coding, as well as craft our own around us. Focusing on different materials and actions piece of individual writing. Readings and discussions we will investigate the process by which things are will take place every evening over drinks and dinner made at both the scale of the factory and the craftsman. in Zürich. I sit before a moor of tweed: a narrow gorge and fading folds. Two ends must be fj nished now I see neither, only my fathom’s reach of arms. Though I seem to choose this task there is a tyranny in the needed eveness of the weave Ian Stephen Nazca mantle, medium: cotton, camelid fj ber, South Coast, Peru, 0-100 CE Studio Tom Emerson, eth Zurich Seminar Week, 18th - 22th March 2019

Programme Sunday 17 Meet at Dreieck Genossenschaft Kantine, Zürich 1630-1800 Irénée Scalbert : on essay writing 1900-2200 Amy and Guillaume cook, dinner and discussion Monday 18 S5 Train to Bauma at 7.24 from Zürich HB 0830-1230 Heimatwerk, Zürcher Oberland : learning to use a hand loom S26 – EC Train to St Gallen at 12:37 from Bauma 1430-1700 St Gallen Textile Museum with Ákos Moravánszky Free evening Tuesday 19 Rote Fabric, Zürich 0900-1200 Scripting workshop with Max Frischknecht from Début Début Historical tour of the Rote Fabrik with Hans X. Hagen 1400-1700 Individual work on texts and scripts Free evening Wednesday 20 S25 Train at 7.43 from Zürich HB to Niederunnen 0900-1100 Jenny Fabrics Factory visit Train to Galerie Ruf 3hr 1430-1700 Visit: Private textile and costume collection of Wolfgang Ruf Free evening Thursday 21 ITA, ETH 0900-1200 Mariana Popescu (Block Research Group): 3d digital kniting 1300-1600 Francisco Moura Veiga (Cartha Magazine & a-forschung): on editing Dinner at Dreieck Genossenschaft, Zürich 1700-2200 students cook, dinner and discussion Friday 22 Train to Wattwil 0830-1620 production on digital Jacquard looms with STF in Wattwil Dinner at Luegislandstrasse 105 1700-2200 Students cook, dinner and discussion Presentation of texts, codes and fabrics 0-1-Black-White-On-Off-Dead-Alive, Max Frischknecht, 2018 Studio Tom Emerson, eth Zurich Seminar Week, 18th - 22th March 2019

Weavers Scripters Writers Makers Max Frischknecht, Début Début, Basel Francesco Battaini + 41798727080 Hans X. Hagen, Rote Fabrik, Zürich Alessia Bertini + 393801969734 Cortina Löwer, Jenny Fabrics, Niederunnen Diego Bettinaglio + 41793042034 Ákos Moravánszky, eth , Zurich Seraina Bollinger + 41763379381 Francisco Moura Veiga, A Forschung, Basel Zoe Börmann + 41774070180 Holger Neubauer, stf , Zurich Gabriel Fiette + 447922918692 Sabine Nicoli, stf Z urich Fabiana Frisullo + 41798005126 Katharina Osterwalder, Heimatwerk, Bauma Damien Greder + 41774131283 Mariana Popescu, eth , Zurich Boris Gusic + 41792874360 Wolfgang Ruf, Galerie Ruf, Stansstad Renèe Lou Jungo + 49797638541 Irénée Scalbert, London Christoph Junk + 41763267463 Dominik Keller + 41793811724 Tools Ann-Sophia Kirchhofer + 4917699995895 Juliette Martin + 41788188834 Pens, paper and laptops should be brought with Friederike Merkel + 41798493690 you every day. Please d o w n l o a d the following Larissa Mülner + 41767658115 programmes for the scripting workshop on Tuesday. Guillaume Othenin-Girard + 41787324552 Amy Perkins + 41774226756 Food Marino Weber + 41796738496 Jana von Wyl + 41786746842 In order to keep the cost of the seminar week to a Nemanja Zimonjic + 41799018587 minimum we will cook for each other and our guests over the course of the week. Seminar week students will be responsible for dinner during the seminar week. Studio Tom Emerson will be making dinner on the fj rst night. Travel Tickets will be provided for all excursions and trips. Please bring your Swiss Pass with you on all days. Insurance Each traveller must insure that they have the appropriate insurance for the Seminar Week. The eth is not responsible for any insurance during the trip and is not responsible for checking that each student has the obligatory health and accident insurance. Please check with your individual insurance provider that you have the appropriate cover. Plate 11. Method of draft notation, from Anni Albers, On Weaving , 1965 Studio Tom Emerson, eth Zurich Seminar Week, 18th - 22th March 2019

Reading List Bibliography Anni Albers, On Weaving , New York: Dover Writing Publications Inc, 2003. Ep 17: Irénée Scalbert, Scaffold Podcast, 30.01.19. Peta Carlin, On Surface and Place; Between Irénée Scalbert, A Real Living Contact with the Architecture, Textiles and Photography , New York: Things Themselves. In: A Real Living Contact with Routledge, 2017. the Things Themselves: Essays on Architecture , Zürich: Park Books, 2018, p. 94-135. Megan Cavell, Weaving Words and Binding Bodies; The Poetics of Human Experience in Old English Literature , Toronto: University of Toront Press, Weaving 2016. Victoria Mitchell, Textiles, text and techne. In: Jessica Hemmings, ed., The Textile Reader , London: Paul E. Ceruzzi, Computing; A Concise History , Bloomsbury, 2012, p. 5-13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2012. Anni Albers, Tactile Sensibility. In: Anni Albers, On Tim Ingold, Lines; A Brief History , London: Weaving , Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, Routledge, 2016. 1965, p. 62-65. Tim Ingold, The Life of Lines , London: Routledge, 2015. Scripting Download / Install Processing and read trough the Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environement, folllowing introduction text under: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill , London: 0/1 – Black/White – On/Off – Dead/Alive Routledge, 2000. Victoria Mitchell, The Textile Reader , London: Editing Bloomsbury, 2012, p. 5-13. Thomas Weaver, Writing not Typing . Lecture at Escuela de Arquitectura UNAV, Navarra, 27.04.18. Helena de Preester, Not A Day Without A Line; Understanding Artists’ Writings , Gent: Academia Matthew Arnold, Introduction. In: Culture and Press, 2013. Anarchy , ed. by Jane Garnett, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, p.vii-xxviii. Various, Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited , Paris: Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture Barclay Records, 2006. and Other Writings , translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave & Wolfgang Herrmann, Cambridge: The Pointer Sisters, Send Him Back (Pilooski Edit) , Cambridge University Press, 1989. The Originals Series, Berlin: Deutsche Grammophon, 2003. T’ai Smith, Bauhaus Weaving Theory; From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design , Minesota: DJ Shadow, Endtroducing..... , The Glue Factory University of Minesota Press, 2014. (San Francisco, California), London: Island Records, 1996. Edited manuscript page of Barry Hannah’s Ray, Gordon Lish, 1980 Studio Tom Emerson, eth Zurich Seminar Week, 18th - 22th March 2019