Elisabeth Petch and Tora Endestad Bjørkheim, KhiB students at textile department and now exchange students in Rotterdam,
have made this nice video work with text in nature. The result is one minute video that you can watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAaPLf0ze4
8 textile and fashion students from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Norway joined this years ETT program. The ETT program is collaboration between the Audax Textiel Museum in the Netherlands, the textile industry in Como, Italy and different European schools. It is still a pilot project and this is the third year it has been arranged.
I am a second year student at the textile studies at KHiB and has been lucky to have the opportunity to participate in the ETT program.
We spent 5 weeks at the Audax Textiel Museum in Tilburg. This year’s theme was sustainability, a challenging and important issue in today’s society and in the textile field. One of the first day we where present at the academic opening of the Design Academy of Eindhoven, where the theme was sustainability and among the speakers Michael Braungart, founder of Cradle to Cradle. During the period we also had other lectures on sustainability, useful for an insight in the issue.
The first weeks were spent on technical introductions; we were lucky to get a two days workshop with Jon Pettersen with an introduction to Jaquard weaving and construction. We also had a day with handweaving with Joost Prost to learn more about bindings and possibilities.
7 and a half days were spent in the Textiel Lab during the 5 weeks, working together with the product developers in each area. I got experience from knitting, weaving, laser, digital printing, embroidery and passement. Having the whole Textiel Lab at our disposal made it easier for us to mix different techniques and explore the possibilities in that.
Under are some photos from the Textiel Lab in Tilburg and from the final presentation.
I mai måned hadde Hile Hauan Johnsen, professor på tekstil og Kristina Aas, MA student en kreativ workshop med laserkutter som varte i et par uker. Prosjektet hadde som mål å utforske forskjellige materialer ved å kutte dem på en spesiell måte. Målet var å se hvor mye mer man kan ”strekke” stoffet etter at den ble kuttet, vurdere spenstighet, draperinger osv.
Etterhvert dukket det opp ideen om å bruke teknikken til bekledning. Det idielle med laserkuttingen er at ved høy varme, forsegler laserstrålen kantene på materialer, slik at man trenger ikke sømmer til kanter. Det ga ideen til Kristina om å lage plagg med minst mulig søm, der utskjæringer skulle virke som dekor på plagget.
Plaggene ble laget ferdig i begynnelsen av juli, der for det meste ble brukt syntetiske materialer eller naturlige materialer med litt blanding av syntetiske fibre.
På noen av plaggene ble det brukt silketrykk av photokrome farger, dvs farger som reagerer på UV lys, dette er også som resultat av noen prøver som Hilde og Kristina har gjort sammen i mai.
Kolleksjonen ble fotografert i Vilnius og blir presentert i en av de største mote-kvinnemagasinene “Ieva” i Litauen i september.
Fotograf: Migle Narbutaite
Hele kolleksjonen: www.kristina-aas.com
Kristina Aas, the MA student at Bergen National Academy of the Arts participated in the international symposium “Felt 2010”.
The symposium, which lasted for two weeks, from July 25 to August 7, took place in Alanta Estate, Moletai, Lithuania. There were 17 participants from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Greece and Norway in the symposium. This event was organized by a group of textile artists, called “White Moths”. The subject of the symposium was “Ecology and Art”. Only the natural Lithuanian wool was used for the works of art. Each artist interpreted the subject in his/her very own way. In evenings the artists presented their works, debated on relevant topics in creative events.
After the symposium exhibition has been opened, which will continue till the end of August and in September it will be moved to Vilnius, gallery Artifex.
Kristina Aas created four works, which were presented in the exhibition:
“Floating”, felt with birch seeds; 50×50cm.
“Secrets”, felt, glass, paper, textile; 7 objects, 30×30cm.
“Dream”, felt, silk shirt.
“Underwear”, felt; 2 objects.
In her works, she tries to understand what is so special about felt, to point out the exclusiveness of this material, which shows up best when combining it with such contrasting materials as glass or silk. The work “Underwear” reflects simple playing with a stereotypical image that wool is a rough material, not good if close to skin, persistently reminding that it is animal’s fur.
The aim of “Floating” was to reveal the many layers of felt, spreading birch seeds among the felt layers, found on the skirts of Alanta street.
The inspiration of the work “Secrets” came from childhood, where the most interesting toys for a child used to be a piece of paper or glass sliver. When girls buried them in playground, it became the biggest secret, which could be trusted only to the very best friends.
The work “Dream” is like the interflow of nature and culture, the end of a piece of clothing created by someone from sleek, beautiful silk in the grey mist of felt. Sheep fur is about to usurp the white robe, which loses its purpose and becomes just a plane…
More extensive brainstorming. When the idea got more formed of what sensors and elements we want to use and what kind of interaction and space we wish to create, we formed to teams. Team one discussed the interactive part of the Installation, what kind of sensors, what action will be required to trigger a reaction and how does that respond to the poetry of the Installation. The other team discussed to find ways how to treat the textile in relations to space, body, movement and interactivity. Later we met and combined it all. At the end of Day 3, we found ourselves cleaning and emptying the space, and to get started to prepare the textile element of the Installation.
During the whole day we made some tests, for expample: with the thermochromic paste and conductive wire plus carbon non woven textile, to create patterns that disappear/appear (depending on how you use the thermochromin paste as a negative or positive print) and we did some tests with sound and textile (through wire (textile stripes, wire) connected to a motor and attached to a textile – different textile qualities, like silk or cotton give different sounds. This motor-sound movement gives a funny shivering movement to the textile.
Riccardo was writing the scripts needed to get our circuits to work and to connect the needed hardware to it – LED´s powered by Solar Cells, sound from motors connected to textile captured with mini loudspeakers and physical movement created by motors upon textiles.