Textile, Trade and Terror (Òwú, Fil, Faden, Thread)
Fine Companions 4
The publication Textile, Trade and Terror (Òwú, Fil, Faden, Thread) is the fourth volume in the Fine Companions series—a collaboration between the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Mark Pezinger Books for the publication of design-oriented books.
Textile, Trade and Terror (Òwú, Fil, Faden, Thread) is a multi-sensory inquiry into the entanglements of textiles with history, memory, and reclamation. It follows the trade routes of fabrics such as damask and lace, connecting geographically distant places and weaving the histories of Bregenz, Lagos, St. Gallen, Vienna, and Dakar into a polyphonic fabric of recollection, refusal, and possible futures. It bears witness to relations of power, modes of belonging, and forms of knowledge that have passed through hands, bodies, and generations.
The publication is one of the results of Fabricating Adjacency, an artistic research project on the entanglement of textile and colonial history, funded by FWF I PEEK.
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Editors: Fabricating Adjacency
Authors: Anette Baldauf, Johanna Bramble, Hans Fässler, Milou Gabriel, Sasha Huber, Janine Jembere, Peju Layiwola, Ulrike Müller, Susanna Delali Nuwordu, Abiona Esther Ojo, Yusif Sani Said, Jumoke Sanwo, Fatim Soumaré, Mariama Sow, Katharina Weingartner
Graphic design: Astrid Seme, Studio