Born in 1972, Voet is based in Taipei. Driven by her concern with socio-political conditions in the globalised world, Voet has often employed everyday objects as an agent to redirect our attention to the under-noticed reality of economic and power imbalance in our society. Retaining a critical yet humorous quality in her practices, she has realised multidisciplinary projects and works often through labour-intensive production processes. Her works and projects are recently presented at Sint-Lukas Galerie in Brussels, Belgium (2018), Project […]
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Michael Lin is an artist living and working in Taipei and Brussels. Lin turns away from painting as an object of contemplation toward one of painting as a bounded, physical space, one we can settle into and inhabit. Lin orchestrates monumental painting installations that re-conceptualize and reconfigure public spaces. Using patterns and designs appropriated from textiles his works have been exhibited in major institutions and international Biennials around the world, The Rock Bund Art Museum 2012, The Auckland Triennial and […]
COLLECTIVE is an International Architecture Studio practicing Architecture, Interiors and Urban Design. We are research and narrative driven; we insist on Clarity, Beauty and Function. Building on convergence and a ‘collective’ of diverse merits, COLLECTIVE engages design with our team’s wide spectrum of specificities and expertise, also with collaborators world wide in various disciplines, challenging the status quo of the “named” architecture office. While COLLECTIVE remains dedicated to the realization of Architecture, we also engage in areas beyond the traditional […]
Artist, Kuala Lumpur Born in 1971, Yee I-Lann lives and works in Kota Kinabalu. Her art practice is to speculate on issues of culture, power, and the role of historical memory, in our social experience. Exploring such layers of meaning necessitates an extensive and multi-layered visual vocabulary drawn from research, historical references, popular culture, archives, and everyday objects. Yee graduated in 1993 from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) with a […]
Founder and Coordinator, Textile Linker, Hanoi After completing her undergraduate studies in International Economics in Hanoi, Nguyen Huyen worked for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in 2010 in the mountainous northern Vietnamese province of Dien Bien, where she discovered a love for ethnic textiles through efforts in supporting local artisans to improve their livelihood. This experience led to her decision to undertake her Master’s Degree in Social Entrepreneurship in 2012 in Liege, Belgium. With a wholehearted commitment to contributing in her […]
Brand Director, HOSOO, Kyoto Hosoo Masataka is the innovative brand director of HOSOO, a traditional kimono textile maker based in Kyoto, Japan. Hosoo aims to bring Nishijin-ori weaving techniques and textiles to the forefront of the design and fashion scenes worldwide. Popularised by the nobles of the Imperial Court of Kyoto and the samurai warrior class, Nishijin is a special yarn dyeing and weaving technique developed more than 1,200 years ago; it is mainly used for garments, such as kimonos. […]
Dean of Hybrid Design Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York Lidewij Edelkoort is arguably the world’s most famous fashion and consumer trend forecaster. Her company, Trend Union, creates trend forecasts and colours that are used by designers, business strategists, and market leaders at international consumer brands and weaving mills. Her clients cover a diverse range of consumer goods and services, from lifestyle and interiors, to textiles, food, and fashion. Edelkoort is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. […]
Co-founder and Member of Advisory Board, MUJI and Director, Towada Art Centre, Towada Born in Tokyo, Koike Kazuko graduated from the School of Literature of Waseda University. She began her writing career in the 1960s as a copywriter and fashion editor. In 1975, she coordinated the Inventive Clothes – 1909-1939 exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art. Koike founded Japan’s first alternative art space, the SAGACHO Exhibit Space, and served as its curator from 1983-2000. Since 2011, she […]
Curator and Industrial Heritage Coordinator, Textile Museum of Sweden, Borås Johanna Engman is a curator and industrial heritage coordinator at the Textile Museum of Sweden in Borås, a town that has been defined by textiles and textile industry. In 2016, she curated the museum’s award-winning permanent exhibition Textile Power, which presented an overview of the textile industry on both local and global levels through drawing parallels between developments in Borås – from industrialisation to decline and subsequent regeneration – and […]