University of Zurich

International Symposium

Textile Translations. Intermedia Processes of Textile Transfer in the Arts

SOC-1-101, University of Zurich (Raemistrasse 69, Zurich)

Organised by the ERC-Project "TEXTILE – An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture“, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

Programme:

THURSDAY, 6 June

14:00 Welcome and Introduction
Anika Reineke and Anne Röhl (University of Zurich)

I. APPROPRIATION OF TEXTILE CRAFTS
Chair: Merel van Tilburg (University of Geneva)

14:15 Leena Crasemann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Sewing. Unravelling. Cutting. Of Sewn Everyday Things and Textile Art Objects

14:45 Sara Martinetti (EHESS/INHA, Paris)
The Fabricated Image. Pictorial and Textile Situations in the Work of Robert Gober

15:15 Discussion

15:30 Caroline Schopp (University of Chicago)
“…draw him from behind”. The Roth-Wiener Tapestry Collaboration, 1974–1998

16:00 Discussion

16:15 Coffee Break

II. TEXTILE TRANSFER
Chair: Anne Röhl (University of Zurich)

16:45 Kathrin Fehringer (University of Erfurt)
Textile Handarbeit als Raumkonstitutiv: Das Bild des ‚hortus conclusus’ in Flauberts “Madame Bovary”

17:15 Johanna Függer (University of Vienna)
Hanna(h) Höchs Stickerei der Avantgarde

17:45 Discussion

FRIDAY, 7 June

9:30 Coffee and Welcome

III. TRANSLATIONS OF MOTIFS, PATTERNS AND OBJECTS
Chair: Anika Reineke, Tristan Weddigen (University of Zurich)

9:45 Vera-Simone Schulz (KHI, Florenz)
Text(ile)s Translated. Woven Words in 14th-Century Italian Painting

10:15 Ariane Koller (University of Berne)
Gewirkte Wissenschaft – Kartographierte Geschichte. Intermediale Transferprozesse zwischen Tapisserien und Karten

10:45 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15 Liza Oliver (Northwestern University, Chicago)
Don Quixote in 18th-Century India. Translation and Migration of Indian ‘Kalamkari’ Textile Designs for France

11:45 Karin Westphal-Erikson (University of Copenhagen)
Porous ‘Paintings’ – Asger Jorn’s Textile Art in between Painting and Architecture

12:15 Discussion

13:00 Closing remarks

Organisation:
Anika Reineke, Anne Röhl (ERC-Project “Textile – An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture”, University of Zurich)

Conference website:
http://www.khist.uzh.ch/chairs/neuzeit/res/conf/zurich13b.html