TDS Textildruckerei Arbon, TaDA - Textile and Design Alliance, Saurer Museum and Kunsthalle Arbon invite you to a joint tour. With Philipp Kuhn, Head of the Cultural Office of the Canton of Thurgau and René Walther, Arbon city mayor.
The tour provides an insight into the rich cultural and industrial landscape of Arbon: the Arbon textile printing works is one of the last manual screen printing works in Switzerland and combines current creation with the cultural heritage of the textile industry. Martin Schlegel shows the possibilities of the 50-metre-long printing machine from the 1970s. The cultural promotion programme TaDA - Textile and Design Alliance, brings together creatives from all disciplines and different cultures with the textile industry of Eastern Switzerland. The residency's studio and flat are located on the former Saurer site. In the studio in the former cloakroom, numerous experiments and new ideas are created - the current residents provide insight. Nearby is the Saurer Museum, where the history of the traditional company can be experienced. Experienced weavers and embroiderers show visitors how fabrics are made. As a platform for site-specific installations, the Kunsthalle Arbon has been presenting contemporary art in the former halls of the metal goods manufacturer Schädler for over thirty years. In the current exhibition, weaving takes place in a figurative sense when Swiss artist Eric Hattan (*1955) weaves discarded everyday materials into a multi-part, fragile whole.
A historic Saurerbus takes guests from the car park at the Arbon swimming pool to the Arbon textile printing works and back again.
For registration and the full program click here.
At two roundtables, experts from different disciplines will discuss the intricate paths of textile creation. With historian Andreas Zangger, the TaDA residents Pascal Heimann, Axelle Stiefel and Carolina Forss and others.
At TaDA Spinnerei 2023, Pascal Heimann, Axelle Stiefel and Carolina Forss will present the first results and processes from their collaboration with the textile industry in Eastern Switzerland. The event will start with a tour of Tisca Tischhauser AG in Bühler. This year the theme of the “TaDA Spinnerei” will explore the various functions of textiles and architecture and their potential.
Mariska de Groot, who will be showing an installation at this year's festival, was supported in her research and realisation by TaDA and the Sauer Museum.
From 16:00 TaDA Performance at Festival centre
Axelle Stiefel (CH): The Operator
The Geneva-based multidisciplinary artist works with textiles, installation, video, sound and performance. She is TaDA Resident 2023.
TaDA Talk
Lace and other connections
Light and sound artist Mariska de Groot (NL), TaDA Residents Axelle Stiefel (CH), Selina Reiterer (A) and Oliver Maklot (A) discuss sound and textile collaborations and experiments with Marianne Burki (TaDA Programme Director), Ernst Kugler and Rudolph Rüegger (Saurer Museum) and Patrick Kessler (Festival Artistic Director). Moderation: Marianne Burki, Welcome: Ursula Steinhauser (Office for Culture Appenzell AI).
Performance
MORS
Performance by Selina Reiterer (artist and textile designer) and Oliver Maklott (media artist), TaDA Residents 2020.
Admission 10.- CHF
More info on klangmoorschopfe.ch/2023
Since April 2023, three TaDA residents have been working in Eastern Switzerland with the partner companies of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance. They will now present the results and processes of these collaborations.
Followed by a TaDA Talk.
Welcome
– Céline Matter, Assistant Curator Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
– Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance
18.30 Presentations by the TaDA Residents
– Rafael Kouto, textile designer (Switzerland)
– Adrian Pepe, artist (Honduras/Lebanon)
– Chun Shao, multimedia artist (China)
Moderation: Lilia Glanzmann, head of the textile design course at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
19.30 On the value of textile production
The value of textiles is constantly changing – historically, culturally and in production. Traces, ideas, facts.
Discussion with:
– Jumoke Sanwo, Storyteller/Cultural Producer, Creator/Director, Lagos & Dúna Dúrà
– Wang Weiwei, Curator, CHAT Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
– Lilia Glanzmann, head of the textile design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts
– and the audience
Moderation: Marianne Burki
Language: English
Followed by an aperitif!
The exhibition at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur offers insights into the three-year pilot programme by exhibiting 13 positions and showing how potential can unfold when design, culture, technology and economy work together.
With Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant
Meeting place: In the exhibition on the 2nd floor.
No registration required. Included in museum admission.
TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance is a funding programme that enables international cultural practitioners to engage artistically with the textile and design culture of Eastern Switzerland. The exhibition at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur offers insights into the three-year pilot programme by exhibiting 13 positions and showing how potential can unfold when design, culture, technology and economy work together.
With:
– Martin Leuthold, textile designer
– Martin Schlegel, TDS Textile Printing Company Arbon
– Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA - Textile and Design Alliance
Meeting place: In the exhibition on the 2nd floor.
No registration required. Included in museum admission.
More info on gewerbemuseum.ch
18.00 Welcome and reflections on the TaDA pilot phase 2020 – 2023
Andreas Schwarz, Deputy Head of the Office for Culture St.Gallen and Trusteeship Representative TaDA
18:05 Disappearing and imperfect?
The ultimate sustainability goal: products lasting forever or disappearing completely? How can sustainability and imperfection be combined?
With:
– Rafael Kouto, fashion and textile designer, TaDA resident
– Mario Pellin, curator, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur
– Chun Shao, media artist, TaDA resident
18:45 Big or small?
How do turnover, prestige and scope of companies influence measures to enhance sustainable production?
With:
– Adrian Pepe, fiber artist, TaDA resident
– Mandana Roozpeikar, director, Textilmuseum St.Gallen
– Lela Scherrer, fashion designer
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Coordinator: Martina Lughi, TaDA
Intern: Paula Knill
Language: English
The exhibition at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur offers insights into the three-year pilot programme by exhibiting 13 positions and showing how potential can unfold when design, culture, technology and economy work together.
With Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant
Meeting place: In the exhibition on the 2nd floor.
No registration required. Included in museum admission.
The textile industry has undergone major changes in recent decades: fast-changing fashion trends, new material developments and manufacturing processes, innovations in production technology and functionality, globalisation with its shift of the textile market to low-wage countries as well as rising sustainability and labelling issues represent just a few of the enormous challenges. For Swiss textile companies, which can build on an extremely successful tradition, especially in Eastern Switzerland, one of the most important tasks today is to meet these challenges while holding their own in the face of global competition. This is why new and unusual approaches are of great importance, in engineering and technology as well as in design.
With the exhibition „Textile Industry & Artists in Residence“, Gewerbemuseum Winter- thur provides insights into the programme of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance. International designers and artists have, in this programme, developed innovative projects, experiments and research approaches in collaboration with textile companies in Eastern Switzerland, thereby demonstrating the potential that lies in close coopera- tion between design, culture, technology and economy.
More info on gewerbemuseum.ch
This year's Spinnerei* aims to explore questions on sustainable production in the textile industry. Experts from various disciplines will put their projects and ideas up for debate. Moreover, current TaDA residents will present the initial results of their three-month collaboration with their partner companies. Artistic interventions add a further dimension to the TaDA Spinnerei, which is held in cooperation with Empa, TaDA's partner organisation.
The event begins with a guided tour through the Empa premises. The focus is to be on those labs that are used most intensively by the TaDA residents. Next, the artists and designers involved will present insights into the projects and processes that have developed out of the collaboration with their partner companies. Two workshops will then be held in which important questions regarding sustainability in production are to be discussed together with the audience.
TaDA Textile and Design Alliance is a pilot programme by the cultural promotion agencies of the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St.Gallen and Thurgau. It builds on encounters and collaboration between representatives from the world of culture and the textile industry. Through an international call for applications, the programme invites practitioners from all arts disciplines to a three-month residency and brings them into contact with textile companies in Eastern Switzerland. The goal is to stimulate new ideas and approaches with regard to creativity and production in both domains.
How does a long-term approach work in the textile and fashion sectors? And what connections are there between sustainability and social issues? These questions are to be discussed by:
18.00 – 18.40
Sabine Portenier, fashion designer, Switzerland
Otto Rummukainen, artist, designer, Finland (TaDA resident)
Nelli Singer, textile designer, Germany (TaDA resident)
(discussion in German)
18.40 – 19.25
Susanne Rudolf, Fashion Revolution, Switzerland
Ana Micaela Fernández Martín, artist, Spain (TaDA residency)
Victoria Manganiello, artist, designer, educator and organiser, USA (TaDA residency)
(discussion in English)
19.25 – 19.35
Closing remarks with Mandana Roozpeikar, Director of Textilmuseum St.Gallen
(English)
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Coordinator: Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant, supported by Marius Quilibier, TaDA Intern
The talks will be held in English and in German.
The first round of residents selected for TaDA in the programme's third year will present the results and processes of their stay in Arbon and the collaboration projects undertaken with textile companies in Eastern Switzerland.
Introduction by Giovanni Carmine, Director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, and Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Presentations by the residents:
– Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, artist, TaDA resident
– Laura Deschl, Social designer and art researcher, TaDA resident
– Edit Oderbolz, artist, TaDA resident
In his performance activities, Olaniyi R. Akindiya Akirash reflects on the contrast between rural and urban life, revolving around social traumas and subjectivities. He investigates the role of textiles in African society and in relation to economic trade with Europe. During his residency, in cooperation with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, he collaborated with several TADA partners to create new mixed-media works.
Edit Oderbolz researched the role of fabric as a membrane between public and private. During the residency, she worked among other things on the curtain – a recurring object in her work – as a textile element at the interface between interior and exterior.
Laura Deschl experimented with embroidery, industrial weaving, printing and 3D structures on textiles. Her main installation "Inherited Feelings" is related to her research on therapeutic textiles. She has developed a fabric that contains hundreds of small massage spheres, thus creating a stimulating body experience.
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Coordinator: Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant
The presentations will be conducted in German and English
Followed by an apertif
Textile production is characterised by a pronounced global linkage. How is this reflected in the industry's day-to-day work and how have processes changed in recent years?
These questions will be discussed by:
– Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, artist, TaDA resident
– Laura Deschl, social designer and art researcher, TaDA resident
– Edit Oderbolz, artist, TaDA resident
– Detlef Fischer, CEO Textilcolor AG, Sevelen
– Roman Wild, curator of science and research projects at Textilmuseum St.Gallen
Moderation: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA, moderator
Coordinator: Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant
Discussion in English.
Edit Oderbolz and Markus Müller talk about the perception and transformation of space and material with Marianne Burki (art historian, head of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance) and Isabel Zürcher (freelance art historian and author Kunstbulletin); welcome Patricia Bieder (SIK-ISEA). Followed by an aperitif.
Within the framework of the Villa Bleuler Talks, experts question Swiss artists about their artistic practice. Using selected examples of works, social, technical and scientific aspects are discussed. The starting point for the series of events is the basic work of the SIKART Lexicon and the Swiss Art Archive as well as the Kunstbulletin.
A cooperation of the Swiss Institute for Art Studies (SIK-ISEA) and Kunstbulletin
The event will be held in German. Registration is requested by May 20, 2022 to sik@sik-isea.ch. The number of places is limited. Participation is free of charge.
What makes textile companies in Eastern Switzerland grant artists and designers from around the world access to their machines? And what is the outcome of this kind of collaboration? The second TaDA Spinnerei* will once again present results and processes from the TaDA Residency 2021 programme. After that, textile company representatives and a market researcher will conduct a round-table discussion on new trends in textile production – and what multidisciplinary work has to do with these trends.
TaDA Textile and Design Alliance is a pilot programme of the cultural promotion offices of the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St.Gallen and Thurgau. It aims to initiate exactly these kinds of encounters between cultural practitioners and the textile industry. Through an international call for applications, the programme invites practitioners from all arts disciplines to a three-month residency and brings them into contact with textile companies in Eastern Switzerland. The goal is to stimulate new ideas and approaches with regard to creativity and production in both domains.
* The German word “Spinnerei” signifies both a spinning company and ideas that stretch the imagination and are easily dismissed as nonsense.
Textiles fulfill a wide range of functions in nearly all walks of life. They can be adjusted to the most diverse contexts, be it architecture, fashion or medicine. High-tech materials and traditional lace are produced side by side. What is required of textiles nowadays? And how can textile companies develop in such an environment?
With:
– Peter Trinkl, CSO Saurer AG
– Andrea Winkler, artist, TaDA resident
– Sonia Li, artist, TaDA resident
– Ilona Kos, curator Textilmuseum St.Gallen, head of the Collection & Library department
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Coordination: Martina Lughi, Assistant TaDA
Discussion in English.
New materials, innovative production processes, smart technologies, interesting traditions. The world of textiles is constantly subject to new developments. Sometimes it is about traditional materials being processed by new production methods which will bring unexpected possibilities. And where should the new material take us in the future?
17.30 - 19.00
These questions will be discussed by:
– Domenica Tischhauser, textile technician, Tisca
– René Rossi, scientist, Empa
– Benjamin Mengistu Navet, TaDA resident
– Barbara Karl, science and research projects, Textilmuseum
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Coordination: Martina Lughi, Assistant TaDA
Discussion in English.
Screen printing is an ancient technique. Very few companies still practise screen printing by hand. What significance does handicraft have in present-day textile production, in an environment of high-tech materials and industrial manufacturing processes?
Participants:
– Martin Schlegel, Textildruckerei Arbon
– Tobias Kaspar, Künstler, TaDA Resident.
– Stefan Aschwanden, Direktor ad interim, Textilmuseum St. Gallen.
Moderation: Marianne Burki, Leiterin
Coordination: Martina Lughi, Assistentin TaDA.
The discussion will be conducted in German.
"The Fates Are Talking" by Stéphanie Baechler, realised during TaDA Residency 2020, is presented at the ESPACE NINA KEEL. The centerpiece of the solo exhibition is a dialogue in the form of a five-meter-long embroidery that will fill the exhibition space diagonally. The dialogue reads as a critical examination of the textile history of eastern Switzerland and today's global textile industry, where textiles are produced in vast quantities or for questionable clients.
More info on stephaniebaechler.com
The TaDA residents will present the initial results of their stay, followed by discussions with experts. The talks will be moderated by Hochparterre editor Meret Ernst and TaDA programme manager Marianne Burki.
What happens when creative people from different disciplines engage in a direct exchange of ideas with entrepreneurs from the textile industry? What happens when artists test machines and processes? And how are innovation, luxury and sustainability connected?
The new TaDA Textile and Design Alliance residency programme was launched in September 2020 in Eastern Switzerland. Over a period of three months, the five residents from different disciplines – Stéphanie Baechler, Alexandra Hopf, Oliver Maklott, Selina Reiterer and Quang Vinh Nguyen – worked with various companies in Eastern Switzerland. On 4th December, they will give insights into the processes and projects that were developed during the first TaDA residency. In the afternoon, experts and residents will discuss the topics "innovation and luxury", "sustainable production" and "sufficiency – the view from outside". The debate can be accessed by live streaming.
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Re-watch on Youtube here
Vexer Verlag in the studio of Josef Felix Müller: lectures, premieres, books presentations, editions, music and art. Alexandra Hopf, artist from Berlin and TaDA Resident 2020, talks about her book concept. All TaDA Residents 2020 and the TaDA team will be present.
Full programme on vexer.ch