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After a feast of discussions concerning Animal Materialities in our December workshop, I spent some time this new year thinking with the ever-astonishing Joseph Beuys installation at Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart. These sculptures from 1977 are massive casts of tallow. Maybe 20 tons or so of beef fat were rendered? Beuys’ work is described by Skulptur Projekte Archiv as initiating a dialogue between “the aggregate states of warm/soft and cold/hard, organic/living and solidified/dead, between the chaotic and crystalline” (Ferdinand Uptmoor). @lowengard2 thanks for the heads up... Aaaand now nose to the grindstone~ https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/animal-materialities-compositions-and-practices-history-science

4 July 2019. Artist-Silkworm Interface symposium. Featuring @vivianxwj ; organized by @lisaonaga @mpiwg and in collaboration with @artlaboratoryberlin — Big thanks to our roundtable panelists Anna Grasskamp, Dagmar Schäfer, Yubin Shen, & Regine Rapp, and a fantastic audience of scholars + artists! https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/artist-silkworm-interface-agricultural-treatise-source-and-scrutiny-creating-artist-book #silkworm #sericulture #historyofscience #weaving #art #berlin

What should silkworms eat when there is no fresh mulberry available? This was a question silkworm scientists in Japan dealt with since at least the 1930s that led to the development of 人工飼料 (artificial food) for silkworms. At the opening of “The Silkworm Project” exhibition, Vivian Xu, artist in residence @MPIWG & #ArtLaboratoryBerlin showed us how to prepare silkworm feed from a mulberry-based powder. http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/de-presse-aktuell.htm

Before & after, or before & after? Raw silk, 14 Jan. 2019.

The latest addition to my study of Amami Ōshima tsumugi has arrived! The browns can achieve a near-black tone that comes from a plant known as 車輪梅 in Japanese (Teichigi in the Amami language; Raphiolepis genus) and fixed in mud (泥染め). Warp and weft are both meticulously dyed in advance of setting the silk threads on the handloom. The laborious method resulting in the detailed pattern is known as double ikat. @annekmck hope you had a good trip to Amami! Our work goes on!

Human hair wishes to be close to silk. Here’s a tiny close-up of human hair embroidered on silk velvet. Untitled triptych, “Yellow Velvet #1”, by Lee Bul (and her hair). “Crash” exhibit at Martin Gropius Bau, 2 Dec. 2018. @laura4lano

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