The Powerful Whispers Project
- Submitting institution
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Teesside University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 5863255
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- 12th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art ‘SCYTHIA’, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Powerful Whispers Project is a body of critical practice research, resulting in an original fibre-based series of works combining digital and haptic technologies in images and sound. The research critically analyses and responds to the Wilson family’s material culture through its textiles and fabrics that have survived for generations, and to a box of photographs, documenting the family from the Victorian era to the 1980s. This archive includes family photographs and other printed ephemera, such as postcards from relatives, bereavement notices, and telegrams recalling weddings.
The critical analysis positions the research within the field of post memory studies, appropriating images and the sensual qualities of fibre, in the exploration of the fragmentary and the half-remembered in Deleuzian folds in time and space. Powerful Whispers considers the remembered object and the remembered image of post-memory, in relation to discourses on the phantasmagoria of memory, informed by Derrida’s ‘undeciderability’ of the archive, and as examined by Jo Spence, Annette Kuhn, Marianne Hirsch, Patricia Holland and Joan Gibbons. The resulting artworks question the concept of material in a discourse between material as fabric and material culture, the material of memory and archives of the past, and their representation as temporal things, images and sounds.
The artefacts created during the project were exhibited at the 12th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art ‘SCYTHIA’, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine (2018). This juried exhibition presented the work of selected international artists from twenty-seven countries. The biennial exhibition strives to inform the public about new national and international textile art developments and trends. The works were also selected for the triennial exhibition Textile Art of Today which toured Eastern Europe (2018-2019) and were the focus of solo exhibitions at the Artifex Gallery, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, curated by Severija Incirauskaite-Krianeviciene, and the Ivano-Frankivsk Contemporary Art Centre (2019).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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