Materialized Knowledge

TEXTILES: [TEXTILE MATTERS]

Printed+Dyed and/or Woven TEXTILES*

PRE-REQUISITES: Applicants to module 201/301 must have completed MEME101 Tekstil: Vev and/or MEME202 tekstil og Grafikk at KMD, OR an equivalent at another institution, and be able to work autonomously with textile tools, materials and methodologies.

[Textile Matters] will focus on the fundaments and opportunities of building and affecting textile. The module will include introduction and advancement of understanding of a variety of subject specific methods and mediums. Print/Dye will explore different approaches to the colouring and manipulation of cloth, whilst Weave will investigate both analogue and digital techniques of textile construction.

This is a hands-on programme encouraging free thinking, expression and discovery, and the development of practical and cognitive skills in the creation of textiles. Through tacit and cognitive experimentation, studio work will encourage thinking around appropriate techniques and methodologies, towards expression of individual voice.

Workshop practice will facilitate understanding and skills for autonomous working practices with textile processes.

*SUB-DISCIPLINE AREAS: Students will be encouraged to select Printed+Dyed OR Woven Textiles.

However a combination may be feasible.

Knitted, Stitched or Manipulated Textile methods are also possible.

+ (OPT-IN, SELF-FUNDED) EXCURSION - to Textiles conference in Balestrand, Sognefjord - WK36 04-06September)

TEACHING STAFF:

Professor Tim Parry-Williams

Associate Professor Ingrid Åarset

Research Fellow Suzanna James

Guest Lecturer Åse Eriksen

This is a project-based module with a focus on material processes, embodied knowledge, and the relationships between matter, making, reason, and the unknown.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Knowledge

• Develop awareness of relevant references and practices

Skills

• Explore relevant material approaches to the creation of works of art
• Enhance and broaden your own skills and processes through the creation of a self-initiated project

General Competence

• Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
• Demonstrate a consideration of the relationship between making and meaning
• Develop and present new work