Sammendrag
Foreword: I began the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme at the
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in October 2011. My work,
Weaving Fabrics for Suits, was developed in the textile department of
the Art and Craft faculty. Gerd Tinglum was my first supervisor, and I
had two second supervisors, Anne Knutsen and Theodor Barth. Jessica
Hemmings was the text supervisor for this reflection.
I spent three and a half years on the programme, with my final exhibition
Weaving Fabrics for Suits showing at the Oslo Kunstforening (OK)
from 13 March to 19 April 2015. The exhibition and an accompanying
catalogue were the artistic outcomes presented for assessment in 2015.
This reflection text is submitted for review in 2017 and 2018.
The reflection is a series of shorter texts – fragments that, to a greater
or lesser degree, relate to the context in which they stand. Sections
of text in black make up the newly written reflection. Sections of text
in green are edited and translated versions of the texts I wrote for the
exhibition catalogue in 2015, with the exception of The Blue Suit, which
is a new addition written in 2016. These form part of an experiment in
poetic writing, and for that reason they have no references. The sections
of text in italics are quotes.
I choose not to use the term project about my work in the programme.
My explorations have not been sufficiently planned or delimited, neither
in time nor in content, for project to be a suitable term.
My work is built on craftsmanship and my own biography. I use references
and theory where they naturally form part of what is necessary to
write about. This is not a text about the history of the Norwegian textile
industry. It is not a text based on phenomenology, economy or queer
studies. It’s a text about sensation, longing, belonging, memory, pride
and being gay. I write about my work and about myself, based on my
experience as a tailor, weaver and dyer – above all from the perspective
of my practice, as a maker.
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