Emelie Röndahl
Om Emelie Röndahl
"Crying Pixels: a practitioner’s narrative through woven rya - aspects of time in hand made practice”
KEYWORDS: Weaving, Rya, Time, Collaboration, Labour, Skill, Pixels
I am a weaving artist and PhD candidate in Crafts. My research starts with my pictorial weavings made in the Scandinavian weaving technique rya, exploring notions of fiber pixels and their way from downloaded images to fluffy textiles. By using images taken from Google, often - but not only - depicting scenes from the global textile industry, my research project considers visual ethics and time investments in hand weaving. The project’s written text and rya weaving are made together from a personal perspective and structured around my interest in subjects of labour, textile history and time consuming activity.
One of my ongoing investigations focuses on the repetition of one single image, which I call Serial Babies, where themes like pixel transference, repetition and the use of digital and analogue image making processes are explored. Serial Babies is as an inquiry into woven fiber art´s capacity to magnify and twist an image.
In 2018 my main focus is on collaborative processes in hand weaving, through a project commissioned from the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018) Google Weaving Stop-time – a project where approximately thirty weavers from around the world have come together online and share their studio work in response to a distributed assignment using rya knots on a Facebook group page. One of the project aims is to explore solitary versus collaborative weaving practices.
In the autumn of 2018 I will collaborate with Omforma in Malmö - a nonprofit organization, that aims to investigate and develop the conditions in the design area. Their work involves politics, research and conversations, focusing on making working life in the design industry more feminist, anti-racist, intersectional and inclusive.
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Google Weaving Stop-time
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Emelie Röndahl
ArkDes, Stockholm ; STHL Furniture Fair (public talk) ; Malmö Form/Design ; Slagthuset (The Conference) ; Nordstan (Gothenburg Design Festival) ; BoMo (Borlänge Modern) ; Published in the catalogue “Ung Svensk Form 2019” ; Form Magazine - 2019-01-01 -
“Screens” -
exhibition
Emelie Röndahl
Galleri Konstepidemin, Gothenburg 5 - 29 September during the biennial GIBCA as part of GIBCA Extended 2019 Public talk 29 September at Galleri Konstepidemin together with Ulla Moberg (Galleri Konstepidemin) and Stina Östberg (artist) - 2019-01-01 -
Google Weaving
Stop-time
Emelie Röndahl
4th Istanbul Design Biennial sep-nov Nova iskra Artist Residency (oct-dec) Malmö Form/Design Center (nov-jan) Istanbul, Belgrade, Malmö - 2018-01-01 -
Made In (crafts and design narratives) - a practicioner´s
story
Emelie Röndahl
novaiskra.com/en/made-in-crafts-and-design-narratives-2/ - 2018-01-01 -
Fluffy Resolution: An
Introduction
Emelie Röndahl
"Tapestry Symposium Wednesday 19 April 2017, West Dean College" - 2017-01-01 -
Am I sloppy enough or am I just another Vanilla
Weaver?
Emelie Röndahl
Att följa hjortar: Om konst, kulturarv och hantverk, seminarium 27 september 2017, Institutionen för Kulturvård - 2017-01-01 -
Weaving
Labour
Emelie Röndahl
October 7-21, 2017 Barometer Gallery, Sydney, Australia - 2017-01-01 -
Grounded Theory/Crying with soft
eyes
Emelie Röndahl
November 2017 – January 2018 K A Almgrens Silkmusem, Stockholm, Sweden - 2017-01-01