Oral Histories and Contemporary Designs in Urban Indian Textiles
Schedule
Wed Apr 03 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location
100 Queen's Park , Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 2C6 | Toronto, ON
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Explore the connection between oral histories and designs in a digital conversation event that focuses on twentieth-century hand block printing of textiles in India’s urban centres. ROM’s Sarah Fee is joined by IARTS Textiles of India Grant winners Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan and Maia Sinha, who through they’re project The Modern in Print: Exploring Contemporaneity in Urban Indian Textiles, are showing how “traditional” crafts can evolve into a modern, urban aesthetic and material culture. Highlighting the designs on 7,000 important, archival hand-carved blocks used for printed textile production, these researchers identify connections between the block designs and oral histories. Why is this particular collection of print-making blocks so fascinating to researchers? How might design techniques in India demonstrate both continuity from historical traditions and innovation towards the future? This program invites us to reconsider our perspectives on contemporary Indian printed textiles.
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