4 November 2021, 7 pm
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Between 2016 and 2018, artist and fashion designer Regine Steenbock explored the textile culture of the Miao in southern China with her camera as part of a 13-month artistic field research project. In conversation with visual anthropologist Anja Dreschke, she talks about her picture book Chinesisches Gewebe, which brings together 350 photographs that unfold the Miao’s hybrid clothing practices between tradition and modernity in a dense visual description. The book traces the Miao’s complexly coded textile language, which largely replaced a written language until the mid 20th century, and examines in particular the shifts that occur in interaction with the globally fluctuating fast fashion.
Regine Steenbock is an artist, filmmaker and fashion designer. Across media, she is concerned with an artistic exploration of the conditio humana as it is reflected in everyday social life. After studying at the Städelschule in Peter Kubelka’s film class, she worked as a filmmaker from 1982 to 1993. In 1994 she switched to fashion and founded her fashion label Sium in 2001, with which she ran her own stores in Berlin and Hamburg until 2015. From 2016 to 2018, she taught fashion design at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai in China, and conducted artistic field research on the Miao textile language in southern China. The publication Chinesisches Gewebe was published in September 2020 as a printed book by Textem Verlag Hamburg and as an e-book by Eeclectic Berlin. In 2021, she completed her 5-part film Chinese Weave, reconnecting for the first time with her earlier work as a filmmaker.
Anja Dreschke is an ethnologist, filmmaker and curator. Her research interests and publications lie in the field of theory and practice of audiovisual media at the intersection of experimental ethnography and artistic research.