Public guided tour of the exhibition "Textile Industry & Artists in Residence".

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 Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant

Meeting place: In the exhibition on the 2nd floor.
No registration required. Included in museum admission.

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
– Moderation: Lilia Glanzmann, head of the textile design course at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
and the audience

Moderation: Marianne Burki

Language: English

Followed by an aperitif!

KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE and TaDA
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
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.
Schopf #8, 90 min

Conversational guided tour of the exhibition "Textile Industry & Artists in Residence".

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
– TaDA Residents
– 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 here.

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

Discussion in English

Mario Pellin
Mario Pellin works at the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur as curator for temporary exhibitions and as project manager of the collection Material Archive. After several years of freelance experience, he supplemented his initial training as an interior designer with university studies in art history and European ethnology. Parallel to his work in the museum, he teaches as a lecturer at Haus der Farbe Zürich, a school of design in handicraft and architecture.

Lela Scherrer
Swiss born fashion designer Lela Scherrer established her independent studio for fashion and concept design in Antwerp and Basel in 2002. Her seasonless and tailor-made collection consists of clothes without expiry date, often one-of-a-kind-pieces. Her assignments in the field of fashion and textile design include work for Balenciaga, Jakob Schlaepfer, Antwerp Six designers such as Walter van Beirendonck and Dries van Noten, companies like ELLE, various commercial brands, collections for interior design as well as costume designs for theater companies. Lela holds assignments as an innovation research consultant as well as a brand portfolio and design consultant in the retail field. She is a guest lecturer at numerous universities of art and design in Switzerland and abroad where she is likewise involved in the field of design research. Lela is a jury member in several design commissions and competitions.

Public guided tour of the exhibition "Textile Industry & Artists in Residence".

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 Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant

Meeting place: In the exhibition on the 2nd floor.
No registration required. Included in museum admission.

Opening of the exhibition Textile industry & Artists in Residence with TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance
With talk and performance
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 6.30 pm

Welcome and introduction
– Susanna Kumschick, Director Gewerbemuseum Winterthur and
– Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance

Pecha Kucha
– Tanja Scartazzini, Head of Culture Department St.Gallen, trusteeship representative
– Martin Leuthold, textile designer
– Claudia Meile, textile technician, Tisca Tischhauser AG
– Martin Camenzind, senior scientist, Empa, Lab for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles
– Mandana Roozpeikar, Director Textilmuseum St. Gallen
– Alexandra Hopf, Artist, TaDA Resident

Roundtable
Claudia Meile and Martin Camenzind in conversation with Laura Deschl, Designer, TaDAResident
Moderated by: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA – Textile and Design Alliance

Performance
MORS aka Selina Reiterer, textile designer, and Oliver Maklott, media artist, TaDAResidents 2020

More info here.

Sustainable production?

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.

Download the programme here.

Sign up here.

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
(in 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
– Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA, moderator

Coordinator: Martina Lughi, TaDA Assistant

The discussion will be conducted in English.

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.

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 aperitif

Villa Bleuler Talks

A cooperation of the Swiss Institute for Art Studies (SIK-ISEA) and Kunstbulletin

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.

Black History Month Belgium x Please Add Color
presents 2 group shows : ASSEMBLY (An Assembly of Years in Arts) curated by Kevin Kotahunyi

Benjamin Mengistu Navet, TaDA Resident from September to November 2022, will present new works made during his residency with the support of the TaDA partner company Lobra AG.

Opening Saturday 5 March, 18:30
Ballon Rouge Gallery, Place du Jardin du Fleurs, Brussels

Click here for more info.

Aartists: AmatDe La Gueye; Anthony Ngoya; Bayunga Kia Leuka; Benjamin Mengistu Navet; Carl Knight Hultin; David Katshiunga; Deniz Pasha; Dion Rosina; Emilia Chinwe Brys; Eugenie Boon; Gilles Njaheut Valer; Hedy Tjin; Inès Eshun; Joseph Munyao Mutuku; Kenan Vanel Lamiel; Kenneth James; Khalil Joseph; Lisa Uchechi ljeoma; Marc Martha; Nokukhanya Langa; Pol Oliver; Samuel Lemba; Shamisa Debroey; Wes Mapes; Zoè Nkwuge

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.

Important: to attend the events you are required to present a valid Covid certificate and register here.

* The German word “Spinnerei” signifies both a spinning company and ideas that stretch the imagination and are easily dismissed as nonsense.

PROGRAMME

14.00
Textildruckerei Arbon, Textilstrasse 2

Insights into the production processes with the TaDA residents Sonia Li, Benjamin Mengistu Navet, Tobias Kaspar, Andrea Winkler and with Martin Schlegel, Textildruckerei
Moderator: Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA

14.45
Transfer to Textilmuseum St.Gallen by a Saurer Oldtimer bus

15.45
Textilmuseum St.Gallen, Vadianstrasse 2

Welcome by Martha Monstein, TaDA board of trustees, and Marianne Burki, Head of TaDA
Moderator: Meret Ernst, design specialist
Presentations by the TaDA Residents, results and processes
– Sonia Li
– Andrea Winkler
– Benjamin Mengistu Navet
– Tobias Kaspar

17.50
Round Table Discussion – Textile trends
Moderator: Meret Ernst
Keynote: Nina Burger, Senior Research Manager, GIM suisse(Gesellschaft für innovative Marktforschung); Peter Trinkl, CSO Saurer AG; René Rossi, Wissenschafter, Empa; Martin Leuthold, textile designer

19.00
Performance by Selina Reiterer and Oliver Maklott, TaDA Residents 2020

Followed by an apéro riche

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

©Photograph: Sonia Li

REGISTRATION

Please bring your Covid-Certificate and your ID.

Information: info@tada-residency.ch

Biographies

Peter Trinkl is an engineer and has an MBA. He is Chief Strategy Officer and CIO of the Saurer Group, and has over ten years’ experience in the textile machine industry. He is currently responsible for the strategic orientation, business development and digitalisation of the Saurer Group. Previously he worked in the telecommunications and other high-tech industries. He has extensive experience in heading blue chip and start-up companies as well as being a member of various boards. Formerly he held global management positions at Siemens, e.On, Cablecom, Orange and Swisscom. In addition he was a partner in an international Merger & Acquisitions firm, and Advisor for a Venture Capital Fund.

Andrea Winkler studied Visual Communication in Hamburg and Fine Art Media in London. She is interested in spatial scenarios and reruns of set pieces from daily life; her works range between installation, sculpture and «objet trouvé». These object collages and scenic complexes reflect her interest in theatricality, commodity fetishism, in safety and usability awareness. Her works have been displayed in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad, gaining many distinctions. In 2019 she received the Innogy VISIT Award and the promotional grant from the UBS Culture Foundation for her research on post-digitalisation and new materialism.

Sonia Li is a Taiwanese-American artist living and working in Brooklyn. Growing up in more than one country, the exposure to different cultures shaped Li's empathetic approach and innate sensibility towards universal expressions of humanity. She works with installation, performance and social space. Linked to stages of personal transformation, she turns metaphors of internal dialogues into multi-sensory experiences, brought alive by her use of technology, blending physical materials with digital tools to break the invisible divider between the artwork, concept and viewer. She participated in international exhibitions, among others at Centro Cultural FIESP (Brasil), Naves Matadero (Spain), CADAF NYC (USA). Her videos are in the exclusive online Elementum.art collection. In 2018 she was awarded a grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture and the Chen Yung Memorial Foundation.

Ilona Kos has been curator at Textilmuseum St.Gallen since 2018

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

©Photograph: Benjamin Mengistu Navet

REGISTRATION

Please don't forget to bring your Covid-Certificate and your ID

Information: info@tada-residency.ch

Venue: Lounge of Textilmuseum St.Gallen, Vadianstrasse 2, 9000 St.Gallen

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?

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.

Photograph: Ladina Bischof

The discussion will be conducted in German.

REGISTRATION

Please don't forget to bring your Covid-Certificate and your ID

Information:

info@tada-residency.ch
www.tada-residency.ch

Biographies

Tobias Kaspar, based in Zurich and Riga, is an artist working in contemporary art with a strong interest in fashion and textiles. Kunsthalle Bern and Verlag der Buchhandlung Franz und Walther König published an artist’s monograph on him entitled “Independence” in 2020. Over the last decade, Kaspar has realized numerous solo exhibitions at locations such as Kunsthalle Bern; Kunsthalle, Sao Paulo; Cinecittà Studios, Rome;Kim? Contemporary art Center, Riga, Latvia; Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis; Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich, and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing. With ”Rented Life”, Tobias Kaspar has ented out his life for 2020/21 to twenty subscribers and is currently preparing the homonymous museum show due to open at Mamco, Geneva, in summer 2021.

Martin Schlegel

Stefan Aschwanden

Vernissage 24.09.2021

Spoken Word Performance 19.00

Download Dialog The Fates Are Talking

Foto: ©Ladina Bischof

On Friday, 4th December 2020, from 10.00 to 17.00, the annual TaDA Spinnerei event will take place (TaDA's second public format besides the residencies). It will be streamed live on www.tada-residency.ch/livestream. 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.

Residents 2020
– Stéphanie Baechler, Artist and textile designer, Fribourg (Switzerland)
– Alexandra Hopf, Artist, Berlin (Germany)
– Oliver Maklott, Media artist, Vorarlberg (Austria)
– Selina Reiterer, Artist and textile designer, Bregenz (Austria)
– Quang Vinh Nguyen, Product designer, Lausanne (Switzerland)

In cooperation with the following TaDA partner organisations and companies
– Brubo GmbH, Speicher
– Empa, St.Gallen
– Lobra AG, Thal
– Rigotex AG, Bütschwil
– Saurer AG, Arbon
– Schoeller Textil AG, Sevelen
– Sitterwerk, St.Gallen
– Textilcolor AG, Sevelen
– Textildruckerei GmbH, Arbon
– Textile Museum, St.Gallen
– Tisca Tischhauser AG, Bühler

Guest experts
– David Abraham, Fashion designer, Abraham & Thakore, New Delhi
– Veronika Aumann, Professor for Textile Design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
– Nina Bachmann, Head of Technology and Environment, Swiss Textiles
– Christophe Guberan, Product designer, Lausanne
– Andreas Heydasch, Economist, EPEA Switzerland
– Joana Jorge, Project Manager Moda Lisboa
– Martin Leuthold, Textile designer, President of the TaDA Board of Trustees, Eastern Switzerland
– Christine Weder, Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Geneva

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.