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WEAVE UP ! [ONGOING PROJECT]

EUROPE CREATIVE PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

Weave Up! is a project aimed at young textile professionals, particularly emerging textile designers, young graduates of textile vocational training courses and young jobseekers from various European countries. It focuses on the production and transformation of 4 European textile materials (linen, wool, textile cork and leather), bringing young Europeans closer to production sites, often in rural areas, and showing them different sources of employment. Participants will travel to create, meet counterparts and gain expertise in Lithuania, Portugal and France. Together, they will bring to life a European heritage of textile, botanical and wildlife skills. Together they will expand their knowledge of the link between textiles and their region on several levels (history, economy, architecture, ecology). They will demonstrate the importance of European collaboration, the complementarity and solidarity of 3 European countries that share these heritages and textile materials: some of the 3 partner countries no longer have the entire textile chain linked to one material, but together they are reconstituting it. Together, they contribute to finding and restoring solutions to European textile problems common to all 3 countries, and whose benefits can be spread to other European countries and the rest of the world. They will contribute to finding solutions.

Higher Schools of Art

HS_Projets is committed to supporting the next generation of artists in collaboration with teaching staff and art colleges by offering them the opportunity to conceptualize, produce, and exhibit their work as part of the FITE – Textile Biennial.

With no limits other than the broad acceptance of the biennial theme, students are invited to experiment within the framework of their discipline. HS_Projets works with schools of design (ESADSE, ESDMAA), fine arts (ENSBA Lyon, ESCAM, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles), applied arts (La Martinière Diderot, Lyon), architecture (ENSACF) and theater (ENSATT Costume Design department). In contact with artists, as managers of their own exhibitions or as art mediators with the public, students and the institutions with which we collaborate have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of professional and artistic experiences.

ENSATT

As part of the 2020_21 edition of ''Love etc.'', second- and third-year Costume Design students at ENSATT took over the Chapelle de l'Ancien Hôpital Général for the exhibition Love dans tous ses états (Love in all its states). This is a particular artistic approach for these costume designers, whose projects are generally conceived in the context of a theatrical performance rather than an exhibition.

ESACM

Visitors of FITE 2020 also had the opportunity to discover the work of students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Clermont Métropole (ESACM), accompanied by artists Eddy Ekete and Shivay la Multiple as part of the Chœur de costumes workshop. The culmination of this collaboration was the biennial's inaugural parade through the streets of Clermont-Ferrand, during which the students wore their creations. The textile costumes were then exhibited at the Victoire space during the FITE. Chœur de costumes. L’aboutissement de cette collaboration s’est fait lors de la parade inaugurale de la biennale, dans les rues de Clermont-Ferrand durant laquelle les élèves ont revêtus leurs créations. Les costumes textiles ont pu ensuite être exposés à l’espace Victoire pendant la durée du FITE.

ENSACF

Last but not least, students and teachers from the first year of Masters in "Sensibilis (actions)" at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Clermont-Ferrand (ENSACF) worked with pupils from the Charles Perrault elementary school in Clermont-Ferrand. ENSACF students were able to develop theoretical and practical tools, while enabling their young audience to discover and experiment with architectural techniques. The artistic pavilion Tisseur de sens created as part of this partnership was an opportunity to use materials such as banana and pineapple fibers, as well as wicker and bamboo, thanks to the Bambouseraie d'Anduze and the work of wickerworker and basket-maker Thomas Louineau. Tisseur de sens créé dans le cadre de ce partenariat a été l’occasion d’utiliser des matériaux comme la fibre de bananiers et d’ananas, ou encore l’osier et le bambou par l’intermédiaire de la Bambouseraie d’Anduze et l’intervention de l’osiériculteur vannier Thomas Louineau.

FITE LAB

HS_Projets exploratory and experimental projects, known as the FITE Laboratory, are a way for companies and artists to question and re-evaluate material uses, designs, and production. By adopting a different approach to nature, biodiversity, and textile production, HS_Projets hopes that innovations can emerge from these encounters between artists, new materials, and companies.

TEXTILE AND FOOD

The Textile and Food project aims to save arable land by exploiting the banana tree's dual capacity to produce fruit and textile fibers and to diversify sources of income for local populations. HS_Projets aims to save arable land by optimizing banana plants for architectural and textile projects.

Textile et Alimentation is the result of a partnership between the Extraordinary Textiles Foundation, the Bullukian Foundation (France), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (Senegal), ISRA (Institut Supérieur de Recherche Agricole) in Dakar, the Joel Tesoro Foundation (Philippines) and HS_Projets. It began in Senegal with designer Cécile N'Diaye, artist Johanna Bramble and ISRA, and will continue in Lyon as part of an "Artist in Company" residency in June 2021, during which Cécile N'Diaye will be hosted by the Parsi company, which weaves and markets fabrics made from Philippine banana fibers.

Children Ambassadors

The children ambassadors of the Corail / Artefact project in partnership with Corail / Artefact by Jérémy Gobé.

Children ambassadors is a long-term project designed to raise young children's awareness of the consequences of human actions on the environment. Involving creativity, entrepreneurship, textile know-how and teamwork, it fosters awareness of ecological issues and the role of each individual in safeguarding the planet. Over a period of several years, the children accompany the Coral / Artefact project and its evolution, while discovering contemporary art with an artist. They then become fully-fledged Children Ambassadors of the climate issue and of the mission that mankind can take on to preserve wild nature.

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At the end of summer 2017, artist Jérémy Gobé was invited by HS_Projets to participate in the FITE, ''Deviations'' edition (2018-2019). He chooses to draw inspiration from a traditional Massif Central bobbin lace motif: the spirit stitch. For the occasion, he imagined a coral reef in lace to raise public awareness of the disappearance of corals and French textile know-how. For this project, he benefited from the programme Artist in Residence supported by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Clermont Auvergne Métropole, within the company Scop Fontanille, a mechanical lace manufacturer in Le Puy-en-Velay, for the FITE.

From this installation and his research on coral, he imagined and developed in parallel the Coral / Artefact project and created an endowment fund and a company, which are exploring, among other things, solutions for reef regeneration and the possibility of lace as a support for coral development.

The Coral / Artefact project is now continuing with the Guadeloupe partner Coraïbes, whose action is marine ecological restoration.

In spring 2019, twenty-six pupils from a CE2 class at Clermont-Ferrand's Romain Rolland school in Les Vergnes will become the first Coral / Artefact Child Ambassadors. At the same time, they will be visiting the Lyon Aquarium, and more specifically the coral collection, with specialized mediators and oceanologist researchers from the Paris Aquarium, to learn more about the importance of the marine and oceanic ecosystem for our planet.

Accompanied by the Flax textile cafe in Clermont-Ferrand, they discovered the particular know-how of mechanical lace and textile practice. They created a series of coral textiles, which were presented at the Lyon Biennial in the Galerie 7 showroom, which is also FITE's Lyon office.

The project will continue and develop in Clermont-Ferrand in 2020, with pupils from the Romain Rolland school and the Mercoeur school, and in the La Gauthière district, with a visit to the Paris Aquarium and its backstage area, with the people in charge of the tanks. The textile workshops are also continuing, with a view to a public performance at the media libraries during FITE_20 Love etc. in Clermont-Ferrand, then at Les Vergnes and La Gauthière.

In 2021, the project will continue with pupils in the Clermont-Ferrand area, and will now include schools in Dakar (Ecole Aloys Kobé, Ecole Enko Keurgorgui, Ecole Mariama Bâ and Ecole Enkowaca), in collaboration with the Musée de la Mer in Gorée and the Institut Français in Dakar, Senegal.

^[1] supported by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Clermont Auvergne Metropole

SOCIAL PROJECTS

With the aim of creating a cultural dynamic throughout the year in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, the association is developing textile projects for audiences who are considered to be excluded from or far removed from culture: in hospitals, medical and educational institutes (IME), residential establishments for dependent elderly people (EHPAD), prisons, asylum seekers' reception centres (CADA) or within the Regional Refugee Integration Programme (PRIR), etc. HS_Projets offers annual or longer-term projects that are constantly renewed, new, made-to-measure and "hand-crafted" for the different structures that host them, around an open, biennial work theme within the framework of the FITE.

In reception centres for asylum seekers

Since 2017 HS_Projets has been setting up meetings and collaborations between Compagnie Anou Skan and residents of Asylum Seekers Reception Centres (CADA) and the Regional Refugee Integration Programme (PRIR), first with the project Collecte de gestes en exil [Collecting gestures in exile], performed in 2018 as part of the ''Deviation'' edition of the FITE, then in 2019_20 for the ''Love etc.'' edition with the Voies de Passage [Passageways] project. In both of these projects, the emphasis is on letting the asylum seekers tell their story and their feelings, and the Compagnie Anou Skan accompanies them individually to recount their journey, to remember and reconstruct this story through dance or embroidery. As part of Voies de Passage, women and men who have reached Europe are invited to retrace their journey, embroidered on a blue woollen cloth with signs from the Amerindian tradition, to express intimacy, fear, joy, hopes and loneliness. These embroideries mark the beginning of a new story, while at the same time marking the original journey. They are a link between the past, left behind, and the future, yet to be written.

In prisons

Since 2016, HS_Projets has facilitated the meeting between artists and inmates in the correctional facilities of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, in Riom and Valence. These projects are developed in collaboration with the interregional directorate of penitentiary services of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

For the association, the goal is to integrate the actions of the FITE into a process of reintegration of inmates into society through collaborative projects presented to the biennial public. These workshops also aim to dispel the myths associated with detention facilities, which are often unseen or distant from public view. Despite prisons and prisoners not being part of our daily lives, they remain a part of our social reality. There is an ambiguity within the confines of the detention center, between the need to speak or write one's story and the modesty, or even fear, of a second judgment that renders one silent. To what extent is speech constrained by punishment?

During the initial actions in 2015–2016, FITE invited artist Reno Leplat Torti as a collector of paños – cotton handkerchiefs drawn by inmates in Mexico – with the aim of proposing a similar production in France. Due to the epistolary nature of the paños, there is a need to speak about oneself and those who remain outside, but also to speak about a future that is sometimes closer, populated by those who wait. In 2018–19, men and women serving short and long sentences participated in non-mixed but collaborative workshops to create felt carpets led by Elisabeth Berthon. This was an opportunity to carry out a demanding project, typical of the craft trades, in a constrained space. For the ''Love etc.'' edition of FITE 2020–21, Baptiste Morel and Anaïs Wulf visited the Riom center to offer a photographic workshop using the particular process of textile cyanotype. The theme of the workshop was to create a mental landscape conducive to well-being, akin to a self-portrait where one speaks about oneself through the things one loves.

Hospitalized public

The initiatives of the FITE – Textile Biennial are dedicated to reaching as many people as possible, especially those who are distanced from culture due to hospitalization.

With the aim of integrating these audiences into the actions of the FITE, HS_Projets association proposed in 2014 to Sasha Nassar, an artist of Israeli-Palestinian origin, to rework the uniforms of the caregivers at the CHU d'Estaing by cutting, painting, and embroidering them to transform them. This workshop gave rise to a rebellion against the medical uniform and its primary, impersonal, and interchangeable function. In 2018, HS_Projets, the teams of CHU Estaing, and Thomas Louineau, a willow grower and basket maker, chose to create a treehouse by introducing hospitalized children to basket weaving. This collaboration allowed the children to discover new plant essences and textures, in addition to creating an installation with strong symbolic meanings between a cabin - a childhood refuge and play area, and a tree - a natural force anchored and connected by its roots and branches. As part of a rural action, HS_Projets proposed to artist Sabine Cibert to collaborate with the Mixed Syndicate of La Chaise-Dieu to create a work referring to the tapestries preserved in the abbey. To build this object, the artist collaborated with schoolchildren and patients from a Medical-Educational Institute and two Nursing Homes for Dependent Elderly Persons.

For the ''Imagine!'' edition, the association, wishing to work with a structure specializing in mental health, put artist Elisabeth Berthon in contact with the SESSAD (Special Education and Home Care Service) of Marthuret in Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom. The aim is to conduct workshops on vegetable dyeing, also known as Eco-print, using plants gathered as close as possible to the patients' care location.

Rural territories

The FITE – Textile Biennial is situated in a rich textile territory, both in terms of its heritage and its economic dynamism. The Auvergne Rhône Alpes region is the second-largest textile production region in France. This vast territory is dotted with real textile treasures and dynamic businesses that have inspired and supported FITE since its inception.

In 2017, HS_Projets brought together Fontanille Scop, a partner of FITE, and artist Jérémy Gobé. This collaboration gave birth to the Corail Artefact project, where the lace from Velay becomes a medium for regenerating coral barriers. The first presentation of this project took place at the Bargoin Museum as part of the "Déviation" exhibition from September 2018 to March 2019. This was followed by a presentation module at the entrance of the Lace Manufactures Museum in Retournac (43), regularly updated by the artist.

Since 2019, HS_Projets has supported the artistic education aspect by developing the Children Ambassadors of the Corail Artefact project in France and internationally. It aims to create imaginary coral barriers using textile practices from the countries where they are made. This project, supported by DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, epitomizes the connections between art, science, culture, and territory.

In 2019, the FITE was contacted by the Mixed Syndicate of the Chaise-Dieu project to carry out actions in the Chaise-Dieu territory. This led to a collaborative project led by artist Sabine Cibert: "Textile Perspectives on the Tapestries of Chaise-Dieu." The aim of the project was to showcase the exceptional woven heritage of the fourteen tapestries from the late 15th century, preserved within the Benedictine abbey since its inception.

More than a hundred participants, including residents from two Nursing Homes for Dependent Elderly Persons (EHPAD), a Medical-Educational Institute (IME), and a Non-Residential Leisure Center (ALSH), created a collective textile work inspired by the tapestry cycle. This project, which took place over several months, was accompanied by mediation activities: visits by representatives of the Mixed Syndicate, and an invitation to FITE2020 in Clermont-Ferrand.

Further afield, a similar project is planned for 2022 in partnership with the School of Pedagogical Innovation (EIP) in Anglars de Salers (15), the media library of Pays de Mauriac, and the Château de la Trémolière. This textile action will be part of a larger project led by the EIP of Saint Bonnet de Salers, involving schoolchildren, users of the media library, leisure center participants, and audiences distant from culture (EHPAD, IME).

MEMORY AND CONTEMPORARY CREATION IN MADAGASCAR

As a bearer of memory, the tangible heritage of Madagascar, a portion of which is preserved in various museums around the world, is very little known. This project therefore decides to study it and propose it as a source of creation. Thus, students from Madagascar, knowledge bearers, and creators will be able to develop a universal understanding related to these objects. This project accompanies the reconstruction of the National Museum of Madagascar, a large part of whose collections disappeared in 1995.

RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY

Students from Madagascar are documenting the objects of Malagasy material culture during visits to the public collections of European and North American museums. They reconstruct the history of this heritage, its arrival and its journey through the museums, with the people in charge of these collections.

UPDATING CONSERVING PASSING ON

The students are questioning the current meaning of these collections among the bearers of knowledge in Madagascar. They become, in their memory, the bearers of knowledge that they mediate through meetings and public screenings in Madagascar.

MADAGASCAR'S HERITAGE AROUND THE WORLD

In France, in Angoulême, Besançon, Bordeaux, Colmar, Grenoble, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Lyon, Mulhouse, Paris, Pithiviers, Rochefort, Roubaix, Toulouse, Vichy, in Switzerland in Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, in Italy, in Rome, in Germany in Berlin, Hanover, Stuttgart, in the Netherlands in Amsterdam, in Great Britain, in London, Oxford, in Norway in Bergen, in Sweden in Gothenburg, Stockholm, in the United States in Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salem, and Washington.

CONTEMPORARY CREATION

Painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, dancers, authors and fashion designers are invited to explore the source of this memory. It becomes the possible support for their inspiration, reflection and creation.

Workshops are organised, inviting designers to imagine, invent and create.

Collecting memories and creating contemporary works give rise to exhibitions, performances, concerts and new forms, both on and off the island.

VENUES FOR WORKSHOPS & EVENTS IN MADAGASCAR

Institute of Civilizations Museum of Art and Archaeology (ICMAA)
Andiafavaratra Museum, former residence of Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony
Center of Art and Archaeology (CAA)
Museum of the Botanical and Zoological Park of Tsimbazaza (PBZT)
Antsahamanitra Green Theater
Analamaitso Space in Analamahisty
French Institute of Madagascar (IFM) - formerly Albert Camus Cultural Center (IFM)
American Cultural Center
German-Malagasy Center (CGM)
Alliance Française of Tananarive (AFT)

And on the island in Majunga, Tuléar, Fianarantsoa, Antsirabe, Diego Suarez

VENUES FOR EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD

Showroom Gallery 7, LYON
Partner museums
Participating museums

SINULID
UNE ECOLE POUR UN MODE DE VIE UNIVERSEL ET INNOVANT

An international meeting point showcasing creations, both traditional and contemporary, located near Manila, Philippines, in collaboration with designer Patis Tesoro.

Patis Tesoro >

MISSION

Through programmes that raise the community's ongoing awareness of innovation and the conservation of cultural heritage, Sinulid aims to give those involved (through tradition as well as modernity) the means to participate in the archiving of these objects and their creation processes.

VISION AND VALUES

We want to become a cultural education programme in its own way. We want to play a part in saving a cultural and social heritage within a heritage that has already been built. This vision of the project is accompanied by strong values that advocate collective action and mutual support within a group.

OBJECTIVES

Sinulid's main objective is to promote the cultural heritage of the textile arts, and more broadly the craftsmanship, as part of an approach to preserving the world's heritage and recognising the textile arts as important components of our society.

Sinulid seeks to promote cultural exchange and the creation of a global community that lasts over time. The project aims to promote creativity and encourage unique and innovative designs.

Finally, preventive measures are being put in place to fight against the extinction of craftsmanship, particularly in the textile field.

THE PROJECT TARGET

Local and international craftsmen and master craftsmen.

Local and international students, small and medium-sized enterprises, artisan entrepreneurs and product designers.

Generally speaking, the project is aimed at enthusiastic people from all backgrounds, professions and educational backgrounds.

LECTURES

For several years now, the HS_Projets Association has been offering lectures on the history of art, with a particular focus on non-European cultures.

For several years, the HS_Projets Association has been offering art history conferences focusing notably on non-European cultures. These lectures, which are given in museums as well as at private gatherings, provide a link with the collections and their history. To make this approach more concrete, HS_Projets accompanies its presentations with objects and textiles. Its aim is not to forget contemporary creation and to showcase those involved in it.

We offer customised courses tailored to your requirements, for example on the arts of Africa (Baule art, the royal art of Benin, the Bamana of Mali, Kongo art, Berber ceramics, African textiles, the notion of power in clothing in Madagascar). We also offer individual lectures (post-war American sculpture, colour in the Middle Ages, portraiture in the Renaissance, contemporary sculpture in Africa, etc.).

References :

Crozatier Museum in Le Puy-en-Velay
University for All in Saint-Etienne, Annonay, Sorbiers
Martine Mikaelian's Workshop in Lyon
Art Culture Leisure Lyon Association (ACLL)

If you wish to set up a series of courses or a simple conference, you can contact Thomas Leveugle at :

Email: tl@hs-projets.com

06 43 55 62 97

09 53 89 17 98

CONTACT

Phone : 09 53 89 17 98

Mail : fite@hs-projets.com