Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/03-03-2020 -Event 5

XPUB1: Presentation on Warp Weft Memory, archive project, with Renée Turner and Cristina Cochior

• 11:00 - 13:00 Warp Weft Memory presentation by Renée Turner and Cristina Cochior
• 14:00 - 17:00 individual/group tutorials with Cristina Cochior

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Cristina Cochior http://randomiser.info/

Cristina Cochior (RO) is a researcher and designer working in the Netherlands. With an interest in automation practices, situated software and peer to machine knowledge production, her practice consists of artistic research investigations into the intimate bureaucracy of knowledge organisation and sharing systems.

Renée Turner

http://www.fudgethefacts.com/

http://www.geuzen.org/

Renée Turner is an artist and writer who received her MFA from the University of Arizona and an MA (Hons) in Creative Writing and New Media from De Montfort University. She has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan, the Rijksakademie, and Jan van Eyck Academy. From 1996 to 2012, she collaborated under the name De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research. Parallel to her practice as an artist, she has taught art, theory and design at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and St. Joost Academy. She was the former director of the Piet Zwart Institute, and is currently a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy. She is also a Ph.D. supervisor for the PhDArts programmme at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Recently, she was awarded a Start-up Grant from the Creative Industry Funds, and a two-year grant for established talent from the Mondriaan Foundation to work as an artist in residence at the Castrum Peregrini Foundation..

At the Master Education in Arts Renée Turner is graduation supervisor. Her fields of expertise are: higher art and design education; digital cultures & education; feminist/queer/critical pedagogies; political art and design practices; artistic research and community based practices.

On Warp Weft Memory

The Warp and Weft of Memory explores the wardrobe of Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, a Dutch artist who once lived at Herengracht 401 in Amsterdam. Although she passed away in 2013 at the age of one hundred, traces of her figure can still be sensed through the shape and wear of her clothes. Spanning decades, the range of garments amassed over the years illustrates her fascination with travel, textiles, and design. There are Greek woollen vests, a Chinese silk jacket, and several dresses fashioned by the renowned Dutch designer Dick Holthaus. All were meticulously itemised in Gisèle’s own wardrobe inventories and many are represented in her photographic archive.

Combining writing, photographs of her clothes, videos, and illustrations, Renée Turner reflects on her direct encounter with Gisèle’s belongings, the intimacy of the closet, and how its content reflects her life, the history of the Netherlands before, during, and after the war, women and their clothing, the privileges of class, and the persona of the female artist. While each garment has its own story, it can be woven into a larger tapestry of other narratives, past and present.

The Warp and Weft of Memory has two entry points. The Notes offer a non-linear narrative of Turner’s reflections. Almost diaristic in tone, these are idiosyncratic observations and speculations about Gisèle and her things. The Semantic Tapestry offers an indexical view. Here the reader can meander and get lost in the site’s contents, guided by sets of interrelated taxonomies.

The Epistolary section can be seen as a parallel world where Turner corresponds with fiction writer Kate Pullinger and literary scholar, Frans-Willem Korsten. These emails cover a variety of subjects from the representation of women, perceptions of ageing, life in literary circles, home as a space of repression and possibility, and the potential of playing against convention.