RÖHSSKA MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND CRAFT, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
October 10-18, 2019
Vasagatan 39, 411 37 Göteborg, Sweden

Weaving Lab was part of a symposium and exhibition called the The Weaving Workshop Revisited.

During October the Architecture hall in the museum will be transformed into a weaving lab where different ways of practice-based research will be explored. The Weaving Workshop Revisited is held on occasion of the 100-year anniversary of the Bauhaus school.

In the spirit of Anni Albers, Bauhaus weaver, designer and writer, this two-day symposium will focus on ways to make practice-based research public. Anni Albers is recognised as one of the first weavers who theorized weaving through the writing of essays as part of her work as a textile artist. Her influence continues to provide us with key references in textile research today.

The event is organised in collaboration with doctoral students from the Research School at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at University of Gothenburg. Rosa Telnov Clausen and Emelie Röndahl

WEAVING SOUNDS was a project where participants could sign up to weave for one hour of time while listening to music composed by Joseph Adamik.

BY JOSEPH ADAMIK AND MARIANNE FAIRBANKS

Weaving Sounds is an experiential project that asks participants to listen to a composition while weaving. The piece was born from conversations about the relationships between improvisational music and the act of weaving. Incorporating ideas of patterns and randomness from weaving, the accompanying music replaces the warp and weft with melody and rhythm.  There are three sections of the composition that include ambient, rhythmic and noise-based sounds, each connect with three distinct woven structures.

Specifically coded programs randomly pick patterns, natural and computer-generated sounds, as well as melody, with an infinite number of variations with the intention that the accompanying sounds might both parallel and influence the weaving process. Each weaver will listen to a unique composition and create an individual piece of cloth that will act as material evidence of intentional listening and the handmade. While the relationship between weaving and music may be abstract, we hope that participants will find resonance with this multisensory experience.