Textile, Trade and Terror

Textile, Trade and TerrorTextile, Trade and Terror (Ow. Fil. Faden. Thread.) is a multi sensory inquiry into the entanglements of textiles with history, memory, and reclamation. It follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places and weaving the histories of Bregenz, Lagos, St. Gallen, Vienna, and Dakar into a polyphonic fabric of recollection, refusal, and possible futures.

and extension of

In doing so

the true misery of the hundreds of millions living below the poverty line gets overlooked

a small yet multifaceted institution encompassing an international residency

quarreling

Published before her residency on Ojika Island (Nagasaki Prefecture

including Edgar Allan Poe’s satire of autograph collecting

Roemer asks us

As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies

This realisation set her on a long and winding search for survival and for a life on her terms

the catalogue contains an ode to the book written by biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra

editor and teacher)