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Berlin, Museum of Islamic Art and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 28.05. - 15.07.2015Networks: Textile Arts and Textility in a Transcultural PerspectiveMay 28, 2015, 18:00 | Matthew Canepa, University of MinnesotaThe Late Antique Kosmos: Textiles and the Transformation of LateAntique Visual and Political Cultures of PowerMuseum of Islamic Art, Mshatta-Hall, Am Kupfergraben 5 in 10117 BerlinJune 22, 2015, 18:00 | Marie-Louise Nosch, Centre for Textile Research,CopenhagenKleidergeschichten in der Späten Bronzezeit in der Ägäis und inNordeuropaHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HS 3075, Unter den Linden 6 in 10099BerlinJuly 7, 2015, 20:00 | Cécile Fromont, University of ChicagoForeign Cloth, Local Habits: Textiles and the Art of Conversion in theEarly Modern Kingdom of KongoHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HS 3075, Unter den Linden 6 in 10099BerlinJuly 15, 2015, 20:00 | Markus Ritter, University of ViennaKontext und Transfer in Westasien und Europa: Das Textil für Sultan AbuSaid von Iran und Gold-Seide-Stoffe mit arabischer Schrift imSpätmittelalterHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, HS 3075, Unter den Linden 6 in 10099BerlinAbout Networks:“Networks: Textile Arts and Textility in a Transcultural Perspective(4th to 17th cent.)” is a research project directed by Prof. Dr.Gerhard Wolf and based at the Institute of Art History and VisualStudies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Funded by the GermanResearch Foundation (DFG), its aim is to study the migration oftextiles throughout the globe, including raw materials, techniques andpatterns, as well as the representation of textiles in other media, interritories including Asia, the Mediterranean, and Scandinavia fromLate Antiquity to the early modern period.Within art history, textiles have traditionally held a marginalposition. The Networks project aims to give textiles the role in arthistory that they deserve, especially in a moment when the field opensto a global horizon. The project focuses on textiles themselves andseeks to reconstruct their role as agents of cultural interaction: amedium of easy transportability and high estimation in most societies,textiles were a privileged field for the elaboration of cross-culturalartistic languages. By encouraging a more intense dialogue amongvarious sub-disciplines of art history the project promotes new ways oflooking at textiles that connect these fields.The Networks project studies the aesthetics of textiles with regards totheir materiality, surface structure, their ornaments and figurations,including notions of framing, fragmentation and seriality, as well astheir performativity or motility. It concentrates on the intertwiningof aesthetics with systems of knowledge and the religious, political ordomestic functions of textiles as they wrapped bodies and articulatedspaces. Networks investigates the multi-faceted ‘biographies’ oftextile artifacts and the mythologies, historical discourses andnarratives of textiles throughout the centuries. Finally, networksactivates the concept of “textility,” exploring textile media as amodel for texts or a metaphor for “matter” or “world”, and for“texture”, relating textiles to layout and multiple ways of interlacingthat occur, for example, in urbanism.The Networks Lecture Series is organized by Vera-Simone Schulz andGerhard Wolf. It will be continued in autumn 2015.All lectures are open to the public. For more information, click:http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/forschung/laufende-forschungsprojekte/networks-textile-arts-textility-transcultural-perspective-4th-17th-cent/