Memory Threads

A research group exploring ideas around memory and textiles

12th February 2020
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Khipu workshop with Textile Artist and Designer Cindy Lilen

Memory Threads are pleased to announce our first workshop of 2020!

Khipu Workshop – Wednesday 4th March 10.30 – 12.30 (Chelsea College)

Khipu is an Inca language made of knots, it has never been fully translated but it teaches us the importance of communication beyond words. The ability for humans to communicate with all their senses is being lost and with it their capacity to develop empathy and a mindfulness state.

Join us for this two-hour workshop where we will explore ancestral textile languages and use their wisdom to develop a deeper understanding of the world we live in and the importance of being connected as a community.

Cindy Lilen is an Argentinean textile designer and artist (and UAL Alumni) based in London. 

Please email us to book your space as places are limited, we hope you can join us!

24th August 2019
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NEXT GROUP MEETING 2nd September: Memory and Objects


Due to summer holidays (and hopefully more sunshine), we don’t have a meeting planned for August. The next group meeting will be held on 2nd September. 10.30 – 12.30 (room TBC).

It will be an informal meeting open to all postgraduate UAL students, based loosely around the theme: Memory and Objects.
This will be a timely discussion, connecting ideas around a workshop Memory Threads will also be attending on the 28th Sept at Tate Britain (see below).

MEMORY THREADS OUTING 28th September: Tate Britain Objects and Memory Workshop

28th September 2019. 13.00 – 15.00.

This participatory workshop takes inspiration from Mike Nelson‘s current Tate Britain Commission The Asset Strippers,

We would love you to join us, although unfortunately, we do not have funding to offer free tickets. It is £7 for students; please do book your ticket soon if you would like to join us!

Further info from the Tate website:
‘Taking inspiration from Mike Nelson‘s Tate Britain Commission The Asset Strippers, learn more about the cultural significance of material change. The workshop will echo the themes of Nelson’s practice by using objects from the past to try and better understand the future. The session will be led by Caitlin Desilvey, Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, exploring the different ways materials produce memories.’

BOOK THE WORKSHOP HERE

As spaces are limited for this workshop, we recommend that if you are interested, please book ASAP.

If you haven’t already, we also recommend visiting the Mike Nelson installation at Tate Britain.

1st July 2019
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DISCUSSION GROUP MEETING 30TH JULY: Memory & Technology

We would like to invite you to our next group meeting which will be held on Tuesday 30th July 10.30 – 12.30 at Chelsea College of Art in the Red Room. Our theme this month is technology.

As always, it will be an informal meeting open to all postgraduate UAL students. We will share interests and ideas around this months theme of technology and memory; whilst engaging in a stitch activity (everything will be provided).   

We’ve been watching old Black Mirror episodes that resonate with the theme of memory and technology;
The Entire History of You  and Crocodile; whilst considering such questions as:

What is the impact of technology on memory?
What happens when technology and memory collide?
What does memory look like in the future?

We plan to send out a short text in due course; which we think will bring some interesting ideas to the discussion.

Please email to confirm your attendance so that we have an idea of numbers.

(Note: the references are suggestions only and not essential to engage in the session.)

We hope to see you there!

5th June 2019
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DISCUSSION GROUP MEETING 28TH JUNE: Narratives

Our next meeting is being held on Friday 28th June 10.30 – 12.30. Room TBC.

It will be an informal meeting open to all postgraduate UAL students. We will share interests and ideas around this months theme of narratives; whilst engaging in a stitch activity (everything will be provided).

Last months meeting was a real success. The stitching activity offered a focus for the hands, allowing the mind to wander, listen, reflect, and engage in deep discussions.

Please email to confirm your attendance so that we have an idea of numbers.

Or join out mailing list to hear about future meetings, events and activities.

Hope to see you there!


With support from the UAL Post-Grad Community EXTRA Project Fund

17th May 2019
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DISCUSSION GROUP MEETING 30TH MAY: Stitch n Glitch

Our first meeting will be held on Thursday 30th May 10.30 – 12.30 at Chelsea College of Art in the Red Room.

It will be an informal meeting open to all postgraduate UAL students. We will introduce the group and share interests and ideas around the topic of memory and textiles; whilst engaging in a stitch activity (everything will be provided).

Please email to confirm your attendance so that we have an idea of numbers.

Hope to see you there!

Also, we will be publishing future meeting dates very soon so watch this space!

1st April 2019
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Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion

Haywards Gallery:

Kader Attia’s first UK survey exhibition traces several strands of the artist’s work from the past two decades.

Defining himself as an activist as well as an artist, Attia has over the past twenty years set out to create artworks that engage our capacity for thinking as well as feeling, and provoke what he calls a ‘real, fundamental dialogue’ about the world in which we live.

In sculptures, installations, collages, videos and photographs that move ‘back and forth between politics and poetry’, Attia inventively explores the ways in which colonialism continues to shape how Western societies represent and engage with non-Western cultures, and offers a passionate critique of modern Western systems of control that define everything from traditional museology to the design of modernist social housing.

A key group of works in The Museum of Emotion engage with the idea of repair as both a physical and symbolic act. These include objects ‘repaired’ by the artist using techniques and materials employed in certain non-Western cultures, as well as videos and large-scale installations that explore the way in which repair relates to psychological as well as physical injury, and to collective as well as individual trauma.

Until 6th May 2019

11th March 2019
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Daria Martin: Tonight the World at the Barbican, London

Artist and Jarman Award 2018 winner Daria Martin revisits dreams and memories from her personal family history to create a complex portrait of migration, loss and resilience.

Drawing upon dream diaries kept by her grandmother over a 35 year period, London-based artist Daria Martin creates a new installation for The Curve. Through atmospheric film and gaming technology Martin stages a series of intimate encounters, enveloping viewers in an exploration of the curious and traumatic history of her grandmother, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of her country, Czechoslovakia.

at the Barbican until 7th April

12th February 2019
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Introducing Memory Threads

Memory Threads is a group of interdisciplinary post graduate students and practitioners working within art, textiles and science from University of the Arts London.

Our discussion group explores themes around memory & identity.  Meetings are open to post-graduate students both within and outside of UAL who have an interested in the subjects.

You can join our mailing list to be informed of our next meeting.

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