How do textiles affect the way we think about art, society and politics?

Social Fabric symposium (10 March 2012) brings together a dynamic group of contemporary artists, curators, art historians and cultural theorists to reflect on this question in a day of presentations and debate.

Presented by Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), it takes as its starting point Iniva’s Social Fabric exhibition at Rivington Place which explores the textile industry, colonial history, international trade, labour and radical politics. The symposium will also look at how artists, art historians and curators have chosen to use textiles as an area of research, often drawn by its relationship to these topics.

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