Over the course of two weekends, we will explore the topic of meaning in textile expression. In addition to our own experiences, which we will transfer together into thread work, you will get to know central philosophical texts and questions in textile arts. Using your own textile work, you will practice how perception and meaning are connected and can find their expression in embroidery.
What meaning flows into the individual textile work and can this meaning be communicated to the outside world in an understandable way? In the first part, we will focus on our own sensory perception and its recording. With the help of two mind maps, we will organize our own impressions and give them a new form that is recognizable to outsiders as thread work. We will be accompanied by texts ranging from Wittgenstein's private language argument to Miranda Fricker's concept of hermeneutic injustice. We will discuss selected theses and examine their validity in the textile work. Personal embroidery will add a tangible dimension to the discussions. In the second part, you will embroider a portrait / fragment of someone close to you. Here, too, we will be accompanied by text excerpts from Adriana Cavarero, Hannah Arendt or Louise Bourgeois. The aim is to enrich the content of the embroidery with the questions from the texts. In this way, your personal questions are "embroidered" and "interwoven" in the portrait you create, resulting in a new visual narrative that combines language and materiality. Together with the content learned in Part 1, you will receive a comprehensive repertoire of tools to give your ideas an artistic expression.
Jana Bochet grew up in Slovakia and later studied philosophy at the University of Zurich with a focus on image theory and photography. In her textile works, the artist reflects on questions relating to image and memory, as well as processes of perception. In addition to classic embroidery techniques, she likes to use experimental approaches and combines these with techniques from other areas such as yoga. Further information
The continuing education programme of the Institute Arts and Design Education aims to broaden participants’ perspective of their own artistic work and shared creative endeavours with others. Participants will be introduced to creative educational strategies, and acquire the ability to make creative debates effective for social processes. Both the weeklong continuing education courses and the optional one-on-one coaching sessions integrate methods from the fields of education, the fine arts, arts education, performance and other participatory practices. The improvement of artistic, creative and communication skills can help pave the way for more equal opportunities. Social inclusion, as one of the main conditions of equal opportunities, requires good communication and cultural competences – and it is these competences that artistic and creative educational strategies can do an excellent job at cultivating. By strengthening artistic and creative competences, we not only increase the realms of possibility for design, but also for communication, social interactions, the strengthening of social structures, personal expression and the experience of self-efficacy.
Block 1: June 14-16 2024 Friday 5pm to 8pm Saturday 9am to 4pm Sunday 10am to 5pm
Block 2: June 21-23 2024 Friday 5pm to 8pm Saturday 9am to 4pm Sunday 10am to 5pm
explore processes of sensory perception and their recording. 2. transfer the content to paper and cloth using thread work (both individually and in combination).
overview of related literature including discussion of problems and questions.
preparation of own work taking into account the above contents.
learning technical know-how in relation to fabric or paper, as well as experimental embroidery techniques.
Admission to higher education
Modules and workshops for a total of 10 ECTS enable registration for the final module with integrated certificate thesis. The graduates are individually supervised by Prof. Dorothée King and her team in 5 individual coaching sessions. Upon successful completion, participants receive the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS HGK FHNW "Artistic Literacy".
Art and design, and imparting their contents open up new ways of perceiving and shaping the world. Learning in art and design is marked by an intense experience of self-agency and dealing with highly diverse contexts.
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE) Freilager-Platz 1 Postfach CH-4002 Basel
Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern SwitzerlandBasel Academy of Art and Design,
Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)
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