21,632 research outputs found
An introduction to The Erotic Cloth
No full textThe publication The Erotic Cloth - Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles constitutes new and previously unpublished research on the aesthetics of cloth as a sensual medium and its relationship to the body. The book emerged from the eponymous colloquiam, has subsequently been the subject of 3 academic seminars, presented as a paper at the ‘Joy of the Erotic’ conference Palermo Sept 2018, Festival of Erotic Art, London 2019, a performance at the NAO Arts Festival Milan 2018 and informing the major exhibition The Sensuous Cloth hosted and funded by Compton Verney Art Gallery 2021. The book will be translated into Chinese in 2020. The volume was co-edited by Kettle and Prof Lesley Millar, Director of the International Textile Research Centre, UCA Farnham. It includes a co-authored introductory chapter, individual chapters and co-authored introductory sections by Kettle and Millar. The research surveys contemporary thinking contributing to material culture and haptic studies on the experience of the erotic through perspectives on the methods, politics and philosophies of encounters with cloth through a trans-disciplinary approach to the subject. Organised into four cognate sections, on representation, design, otherness and performance, the research addresses the elisions and frictions of the erotic in cloth and posits that cloth as a sensual material language permeates other fields of practice including art, design, cinema, politics and dance. It posits a variety of interpretations in which erotic is a multifaceted state, historically, culturally connected and materialised through our physical relationship with cloth. The contributions are written in a variety of tones, including those of 15 practitioners and academics. This book is the first critical examination of the erotically charged relationship between the surface of the skin and the touch of cloth, exploring the ways in which textiles can seduce, conceal and reveal through their interactions with the body
Alice Kettle: Threads
No full textTextile artist Alice Kettle returns to Winchester Discovery Centre with a solo exhibition marking the 10 year anniversary of the public artwork ‘Looking Forwards to the Past, 2007’. This immense, multi-layered piece, caused a fundamental shift in practice for the artist. The retrospective exhibition represents to use of hand, machine and digital stitch, as a narrative medium, characterising textile as a descriptive language. The works are n the English canon of the medieval Opus Anglicanum, using densely stitched figural to depict contemporary event. Stitch is uniquely expanded to the a large scale format creating installation works which use textile as a material narrative tableau. The exhibition has been reviewed in Crafts and Embroidery magazine and was covered in the Guardian, Stitch MAgazine and Arts Quest and the Tatler. A monograph accompanies the exhibition
Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness
No full textA major two venue project presenting new monumental textile works considering refugee displacement and movement. It includes significant new works by Alice Kettle & collaborative works with refugees from Dunkirk, North West & South England made through contribution and co-creation. It develops creative practice, creativity as resilience and supports and explores the intangible cultural heritage skills of refugee women, children and unaccompanied minors. It embraces personal testimonies and textiles role from the domestic to the spectacular to create a legacy of understanding and a chronicle of shared making. Migration is the defining issue of our time. How each individual, group, industry and family choose to respond to this subject will shape the foundations of our future communities. Simultaneously, Alice is working on a local level to connect personally with individual women and children refugees and asylum seekers, asking them to work with her to contribute to and inform new monumental stitched artworks. These artworks are inspired by the strength, resilience, and hospitality of refugees and asylum seekers whom she and her family have worked with. The Digital Women’s Archive North CIC (DWAN) is linking to the project the Travelling Heritage Bureau which will address both the need to ensure the participation of women artists in contributing to arts archives, and the additional complexities of displacement for undertaking arts archive development. Textiles offers a powerful medium through which to explore themes of cultural heritage, journeys and displacement. Embroidery is a domestic practice representing home-making, it is steeped in the history of trade routes with its global connections to production and pattern. The exhibition will use thread to examine the interconnected social world we live within
More Threads
No full textThis mini-retrospective, Alice Kettle: More Threads is linked to the solo exhibition Threads. These two exhibitions demonstrate thread as a narrative cycle, used to depict contemporary event as a personal view, shown through the technical and stylistic development of Kettle's stitchwork. The metaphorical rhythm of stitching accompanies the motion of time, a ten year cycle marked through the repetition of images and events that interweave and loop back whilst simultaneously moving forward. Works are cross referenced as though a looped thread connects and describes the events through time. Recently created work, including Sunbathers (2017), two pieces from her Schiffili series, made in 2006, two of her three dimensional heads for which she is widely recognised and her iconic piece Hermes and the Lotus Eaters, 2003 are included in this collection. An accompanying monograph has been produced by the gallery for both Threads and More threads exhibitions. While she trained as a painter, Kettle has been lauded by her contemporaries for “her use of a craft medium, consistently and on an unparalleled scale.” With curator Sara Roberts stating “The scale of her work belies their component parts: individual tiny stitches, which combine to form great swathes of colour, painterly backgrounds incorporating rich hues and metallic sheen.” Kettle’s important creative success and unique practice, the gallery has produced a new publication Alice Kettle, Threads & More Threads. It features critical writing by 12 contributors, with observations and comments on her work, approach and ideas
flat-assed kettle
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grannies tea kettle, a
No full textgrannyWhen I don't catch what she [my mother] is saying, she says I am "as deaf as a grannies tea kettle."DNE-cit JH 6/75Used I and SupNot usedThis card is stamped with DNE-cit bit it isn't cited in the DNE
The Dog Loukanikos and the Cat’s Cradle’
No full textThe ‘Dog Loukanikos and the Cat's Cradle’ work was shown in the Royal Scottish Academy as invited artist for VAS:t (2015) and developed the collaborative interdisciplinary practice research with Kirsteen Aubrey and Amanda Ravetz. It was subsequently exhibited in Here and Now, Alice Kettle at ‘Circus’, London (2016). It builds upon a research Research Residency funded by Australia National University, Canberra (2014). The works investigate territorialisation linked to the symbolic/mythic through the indexical element of thread as a metaphorical and feminine rendering
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Improving kettle holes as habitat and reproduction areas for am-phibians ‒ A case study in organic farms in north-eastern Germany
No full textKettle holes are found in young moraine landscapes and serve as an
important habitat for amphibians. The loss of amphibians has been dramatic in
recent decades, mainly because of the increase in land use intensity and
deterioration of habitats e.g., kettle holes in agricultural landscapes. We
monitored amphibian species on three organically managed farms in north-eastern
Germany to get an overview of their occurrence and proof of reproduction to
develop effective protection strategies. From 2016 to 2020, we investigated 50
kettle holes in cultivated fields. In 2018, we implemented the nature
conservation measure ‘cutting back dense wooded belts’ in six of these kettle
holes. Here, we focused on seven species considering four highly endangered
species. We found six to seven species in up to 17 kettle holes in the 44 kettle
holes without the measure ‘cutting back dense wooded belts’. Bombina bombina occurred at the most kettle
holes (57%). The number of kettle holes where amphibians reproduced differed
strongly. On average, at least one species reproduced at 58% of the kettle
holes. Many kettle holes become overgrown with negative effects for amphibians
due to the reduction in solar irradiation and higher water consumption. The nature
conservation measure increased the number of species on average from two to four
and the number of species with reproduction from
one to three. It is one of more than 100 measures in the ‘Farming for
Biodiversity’ project that farmers can choose to receive a nature conservation certificate,
which can be used for marketing purposes
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick
No full textFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Intro -- Contents -- Introjection -- Part I -- Endopsychic Allegories -- Schreber Guardian -- Belief System Surveillance -- Part II -- Deeper Problems -- Veil of Tears -- Go West -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Glimmung -- Part III -- Spiritualism Analogy -- Imitating the Dead -- Indexical Layer -- Ilse -- Hammers and Things -- Crucifictions -- Over There -- Martyrology -- Can't Live, Can't Live -- Lola -- Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt -- Outer Race -- The German Introject -- Part IV -- Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics -- Startling Stories -- A Couple of Years -- Android Empathy -- Homunculus and Robot -- ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE. -- Go with the Flow -- Part V -- Room for Thought -- Caduceus -- Jump -- Still -- A Wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the Dead Be -- Play Bally -- Das Hund -- Notes -- BibliographyFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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