Julia Moser is giving a talk on “The Alchemy of Living Pigments: Bacteria and the Future of Textile Dyeing” at the ETN summer jumble 2025, running from 18/07–20/07/2025 at the Textile Center Haslach.
PROGRAM 18/07/2025:
Registration and welcome, tour through the Textile Center Haslach and Archive, finissages of the workshop week 1, workshop with Delphine Léger, Exhibitions:
Colourful Elements. Textile Art by Arezou Shayesteh Sadafian, Textile Centre Haslach, In Hülle und Fülle (In abundance). Highlights from Gery Keszler‘s Life Ball collection, church tower of Haslach, Stadtgewebe (urban fabrics), Delphine Léger, Galerie im Gwölb, Street music festival FLACHSKLANG
PROGRAM 19/07/2025:
09:30 – 09:40: Christina Leitner & Andreas Selzer, AT: Welcome
09:40 – 10:10: Daniel Henry, BE: Dialogue between contemporary textile creation and past heritage
10:10 – 10:30: Kadi Pajupuu & Marilyn Piirsalu, EE: Story of Inventing–MultiWeave
10:30 – 10:45: Maartje Boer, NL: The Colour Magpie – how a spark bird resulted in a collection of knitted textiles
10:45 – 11:30: TABLETALKS & COFFEE
11:30 – 11:50: Tim Parry-Williams, NO: Grana
11:50 – 12:05: Julia Moser, AT: The Alchemy of Living Pigments: Bacteria and the Future of Textile Dyeing
12:05 – 12:15: Anita Bauer, AT: What exactly is Indigo?
12:15 – 12:25: Cecile Belmont, FR/AT: Collective textile projects
12:25 – 13:45: TABLETALKS & LUNCH
13:45 – 15:15: MINI-WORKSHOPS
Group 1: Indigo with Anita Bauer (1,5 hours)
Group 2 & 3 (2 groups – switch after 45 min):
• Collective Stitching with Cecile Belmont (45 min)
• Tablet weaving with Selina Gasser (45 min)
15:15 – 15:25: Christina Leitner, AT: Collection Flügel: A source of inspiration at the Textile Centre Haslach
15:25 – 15:40: Esther van Schuylenbergh, BE: Weaving between craft and industry
15:40 – 16:00: Martine Gyselbrecht, BE: Interview with Martine: A Life as a Weaver
16:00 – 16:30: TABLETALKS & COFFEE
16:30 – 16:45: Delphine Léger, FR/AT: Urban Spaces
16:45 – 17:10: Tanja Boukal, AT: HOSPITIUM – The Lampedusa Project
17:10 – 17:25: Veronika Moos, DE: Resources along the way – plain air – work in situ. Dialogue with plants and natural elements in space
17:25 – 17:35: Anja Westerfrölke, AT: Textile has woven my work as an artist to date
17:35 – 17:45: Katerina Nakou, GR: The Resilient Thread: Reimagining Traditional Passementerie as a Contemporary Art Form
PROGRAM 20/07/2025:
09:30 – 10:00: Veerle Tytgat, BE: The craft of passementerie explained through 4 gestures
10:00 – 10:15: Magdalena Orland, DE: Between contemporary experiments & traditional crafts – Textile Design in times of the ongoing digitisation
10:15 – 10:30: Selina Gasser, CH: Mobile Textile Techniques Reinterpreted
10:30 – 10:40: Lala de Dios, ES: Presenting Textilfest
10:40 – 11:00: Sylva Antony Cekalová, CZ: History of the Sprang technique in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
11:00 – 11:30: TABLETALKS & COFFEE
11:30 – 11:40: Joanna Czekajlo, DE: The Symcraft Project
11:40 – 11:50: Alice Jacubasch, AT: Biofabrique Vienna – A Bioregional Design Practice
11:50 – 12:10: Karin Altmann, AT: Spinning Stories – Living Archives: Continuity and Innovation of a Vanishing Textile Heritage
12:10 – 12:30: Sara Díaz Rodríguez, DE: Crafting textiles with Open Source
12:30 – 12:50: Federica Valli, IT: Weaving Networks: Lottozero Between Art, Design, and Industry
12:50 – 13:30: SNACKS
13:30 – 15:00: MINI-WORKSHOPS
Group 1 (2 groups – switch after 45 min):
• Collective Stitching with Cecile Belmont (45 min)
• Tablet weaving with Selina Gasser (45 min)
Group 2 & 3: Indigo with Anita Bauer (1,5 hours)
