Weaving the Past into the Present: A Collaborative Artistic Research with and on Women Rug-Weavers in Northern Iran.

Start - End 
2019 - 2023 (ongoing)
Type 

Tabgroup

Abstract

The research explores the relationship between gender, tradition, and modernity through collaborative hand-made rug production with local rug weavers, in northern Iran. The collaborative practice of rug making is beyond a design project for a utilitarian object with cultural or emotional underlining. It investigates how the local women artisans imagine and represent their womanhood through their hand-made rug production. The practice-research stresses on the ethics of representation and reception of the weavers and the material culture in the modernized region and global world. 

 

People

Supervisor(s)

Researcher(s)

External(s)

Vincent Meessen

Catherine Willems

KASK