Occulto presents
[...] Travelling across alternate timelines, while certainly possible, and even easily achieved, is certain to have serious consequences for the travellers, as well as the timelines. Neurochemical changes as well as molecular shifts in metabolism have been frequently observed, and are today associated with reported altered states of consciousness that characterize experiences of this kind [For further information on the risks of transtemporal travel, see sections 2.3-2.7].
To avoid these risks, transdimensional holographic telepresence (THT) remains the most common research approach to the exploration of alternate timelines. Allowing the researchers’ bodies to remain safely within their continuum, THT minimizes the chances of cataclysmic events, physical injuries, and anomalies, by instead opening an holographic window onto other timelines. [...]
The digital project textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes makes landfall at FRACTO 2021 as a performative space where facts and fictions about textile artifacts and practices can be reclaimed from an archipelago of alternate worlds, and spun anew. This is an invitation to navigate fragments of their-stories in multiple timescapes, by collectively pulling narrative threads and following their imprints on the fabrics of the possible.
The special program organised by textîles at FRACTO 2021, happening in the ACUD gallery space over two afternoons, will feature performative presentations of non-linear narrative threads, a conversation about publishing and textiles with TAUKO Magazine, a session of social sewing and skill sharing with Agente Costura, and a collage reading guided by Sina Ribak.
FRACTO 2021’s theme “Appropriation” alludes to found footage and other practices of (re)contextualisation in experimental filmmaking. textîles approaches akin forms of creative (re)appropriation – weaving timelines, crossing archives, engaging with speculative fiction and worlding – while also taking critical and radical stances on predatory appropriation, extractivism, dispossession and restitution.
Inspired by Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, textîles gathers non-hero stories, stitching “footnotes” back into historiographic fabrics as a method for collective memory-making. Meant as a way to unweave and reweave the relational knots of multiple events, time- and landscapes, the project pays attention to the response-ability inherent to the work of threading stories. Choosing the threads is a powerful matter indeed.
textîles are: Filippo Bertoni, Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto, Sybille Neumeyer.
FREE ENTRANCE / LIMITED CAPACITY
Please register to each program you’d like to attend by sending your name and the program’s title to info@occultomagazine.com.
textîles is a 3G event that will happen in accordance with the Berlin hygiene framework. Read the full protection and hygiene concept of FRACTO 2021 here.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
TAUKO Magazine is a pioneering independent print publication for home sewists and fashion and culture lovers who have a big heart for the planet. It has its headquarters in Helsinki and Berlin and is founded and published by Kaisa Rissanen and Mila Moisio.
Agente Costura is a sewing agent. In the daytime she tackles unwanted clothing, transforming them into new wearable shapes. At night time she sews to the beat of the music with the Singer and fellow musicians.
Sina Ribak is an independent researcher for ecologies and the arts, exploring bioeconomy, land use, soil, biodiversity, and solidarity from a critical more-than-human and naturecultures perspective. She co-directs the reading group Between Us and Nature.
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes
[...] Travelling across alternate timelines, while certainly possible, and even easily achieved, is certain to have serious consequences for the travellers, as well as the timelines. Neurochemical changes as well as molecular shifts in metabolism have been frequently observed, and are today associated with reported altered states of consciousness that characterize experiences of this kind [For further information on the risks of transtemporal travel, see sections 2.3-2.7].
To avoid these risks, transdimensional holographic telepresence (THT) remains the most common research approach to the exploration of alternate timelines. Allowing the researchers’ bodies to remain safely within their continuum, THT minimizes the chances of cataclysmic events, physical injuries, and anomalies, by instead opening an holographic window onto other timelines. [...]
The digital project textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes makes landfall at FRACTO 2021 as a performative space where facts and fictions about textile artifacts and practices can be reclaimed from an archipelago of alternate worlds, and spun anew. This is an invitation to navigate fragments of their-stories in multiple timescapes, by collectively pulling narrative threads and following their imprints on the fabrics of the possible.
The special program organised by textîles at FRACTO 2021, happening in the ACUD gallery space over two afternoons, will feature performative presentations of non-linear narrative threads, a conversation about publishing and textiles with TAUKO Magazine, a session of social sewing and skill sharing with Agente Costura, and a collage reading guided by Sina Ribak.
FRACTO 2021’s theme “Appropriation” alludes to found footage and other practices of (re)contextualisation in experimental filmmaking. textîles approaches akin forms of creative (re)appropriation – weaving timelines, crossing archives, engaging with speculative fiction and worlding – while also taking critical and radical stances on predatory appropriation, extractivism, dispossession and restitution.
Inspired by Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, textîles gathers non-hero stories, stitching “footnotes” back into historiographic fabrics as a method for collective memory-making. Meant as a way to unweave and reweave the relational knots of multiple events, time- and landscapes, the project pays attention to the response-ability inherent to the work of threading stories. Choosing the threads is a powerful matter indeed.
textîles are: Filippo Bertoni, Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto, Sybille Neumeyer.
FREE ENTRANCE / LIMITED CAPACITY
Please register to each program you’d like to attend by sending your name and the program’s title to info@occultomagazine.com.
textîles is a 3G event that will happen in accordance with the Berlin hygiene framework. Read the full protection and hygiene concept of FRACTO 2021 here.
ABOUT THE GUESTS
TAUKO Magazine is a pioneering independent print publication for home sewists and fashion and culture lovers who have a big heart for the planet. It has its headquarters in Helsinki and Berlin and is founded and published by Kaisa Rissanen and Mila Moisio.
Agente Costura is a sewing agent. In the daytime she tackles unwanted clothing, transforming them into new wearable shapes. At night time she sews to the beat of the music with the Singer and fellow musicians.
Sina Ribak is an independent researcher for ecologies and the arts, exploring bioeconomy, land use, soil, biodiversity, and solidarity from a critical more-than-human and naturecultures perspective. She co-directs the reading group Between Us and Nature.
Sat 23 - Sun 24 Oct
ACUD GALLERY
Sat 23 Oct
15.00-16.45 / ACUD GALLERY
(th)reading session – performative presentation by textîles
17.00-17.45 / ACUD GALLERY
publishing textiles – conversation with TAUKO Magazine
18.00-20.00 / ACUD GALLERY
stitch and bitch – social sewing with Agente Costura
(RSVP info@occultomagazine.com)
Sun 24 Oct
15.00-16.45 / ACUD GALLERY
(th)reading session – performative presentation by textîles
17.00-19.00 / ACUD GALLERY
reading session – collective collage of texts with Sina Ribak
(RSVP info@occultomagazine.com)
SCHEDULE 2021
Thu 21
18:30 / ACUD BACKYARD
Festival Opening
19.30 / ACUD STUDIO
Selection #1
Voyages and Journals
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Finland
Part 1 - Experimented, (ab)used, remembered
Fri 22
14:00 - 17:00 / ACUD STUDIO Workshop
LaborBerlin
introducing the concept & material w/ examples
18:00 / ACUD STUDIO
Selection #2
Symphonious Cities / Urban Ecologies
20:30 / ACUD KINO
Selection #3
Inner and Outer Space
22:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Finland
Part 2 - Consumed, compressed, resurfaced
Sat 23
12:00 - 17:00 / ACUD STUDIO
Workshop
LaborBerlin
Exercises on perception / introducing editing with super8
15:00 - 16:45 / ACUD GALLERY
Occulto presents
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes (th)reading session – performative presentation by textîles
17:00 - 17:45 / ACUD GALLERY Occulto presents
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes
publishing textiles – conversation with TAUKO Magazine
17:00 - 17:45 / ACUD GALLERY Occulto presents
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes
stitch and bitch – social sewing
with Agente Costura
18:00 / ACUD STUDIO
Selection #4
Transfiguration
21:00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Tscherkassky
Part 1
Sun 24
12:00 - 17:00 / ACUD STUDIO
Workshop
LaborBerlin
Editing the film and screening the results
15:00 - 16:45 / ACUD GALLERY
Occulto presents
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes(th)reading session – performative presentation by textîles
17:00 - 19:00 / ACUD GALLERY
Occulto presents
textîles – threading speculative archipelagoes
reading session – collective collage of texts with Sina Ribak
20:00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #5
The Personal is Radical
22:10 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Tscherkassky
Part 2