Ab sofort können sich Künstler für die 16. Internationale Triennale von Lodz, 2019 direkt selber anmelden. Einsendeschluss ist bereits der 30 November 2018.
The International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź, the oldest and the most important presentation of phenomena connected with the medium of textiles, in 2019 will take place for the 16th time.
It’s a good moment to refresh the format and to give the forthcoming
Triennial an open character. It will allow us to get a closer look at
textiles in a broader context. The previous system, proven and fully
functional in a period of lesser freedom of information flow, was fully
justified. The principle assuming work of commissioners from different
countries, who recommended artists fit to participate in the event, was
dictated by the specifics of that time and significantly facilitated the
accomplishment of subsequent editions of the Triennial. However, in the
era of full freedom and ease of information circulation we want to get
in touch directly with artists expressing the desire to take part in the
feast of textiles, which will take part next year in Łódź.
In relation to that, we invite all the authors that every day express
themselves by means of textiles or that would like to square off
against this matter that is demanding, yet offers an incredibly broad
alphabet of means of expression. Until now, the condition for the work
to be allowed in the competition was to use the basic element of the
structure of textiles, i.e. interlacing. We want to broaden that
definition. We will also present works that allude to this medium in
their layer of significance. In the broad formal spectrum, there will be
place for photographs, videos and other forms of expression. All the
terms and conditions of participation are included in the Regulations.
Another essential change is that for the first time we want to focus
the whole presentation of the Triennial around the key topic; for the next Triennial this topic is “Breaching Borders.”
This topic includes many problems of the modern world, which redefine
the meaning of the identity of our civilization, ethnic groups, social
groups or each of us individually. In the era of accumulation of
ever-changing variables, almost all the time we are forced to move the
borders of our understanding of reality or to delineate them, say, in
the matter of dignity or the sense of personal security. Do we, as a
civilization, aim at a world without borders? It seems that borders have
a pejorative meaning and their crossing is an expression of freedom.
They repeatedly proved to be the source of conflict between those who
delineated and maintained them on the one hand, and those who wanted to
cross them on the other. Therefore, maintaining the integrity of borders
or bringing them down shows itself as an enormous civilizational
problem, which is mirrored in political, social, cultural, scientific
and religious matters, in problems that afflict each of us personally.
Which finally finds its expression in art. Artistic textiles have
experienced it in a notable way. Over half a century ago, authors had to
break the rules that the centuries imposed on textiles in order to
admit it as one of the liberated arts. Out of this conflict, outstanding
works of art were born, works that shifted the borders of how we
perceive art. Today, after many years of a peculiar crisis of textiles,
it is being reborn, integrating itself even more closely with other
fields, and thereby blurring the borders that divide them. We believe
that the next International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź will bring an
interesting and important commentary to these phenomena, of which we are
both witnesses and participants.
Deadline: 9 July – 30 November 2018 – open registration for the Competition
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