Of Thread and Stone│304│Why Thread Matters?

Script of this episode// The story should be traced back to April last year. At that time, the New Taipei City Art Museum started with the history of the city, exhibiting several works related to the textile industry in Xinzhuang. The exhibition planted a seed in the curatorial team’s minds: How will the memories of the city be if we retrospect them from the perspective of the textile industry? In recent years, the curatorial team has observed that more and more artists have returned to the medium of threads. They create through weaving and handcrafting in the field of contemporary art, making cotton yarn back into the creative vision again. It is more than a choice of mediums, but much more an act that guides people to consider the laboring experiences and cultural transmission carried by threads. Like the mining industry, the textile industry used to be rooted deeply in the daily lives of New Taipei City and support countless families. Threads were pulled and entangled in factories, transmitting techniques and memories across generations. Thus, soft threads meet hard stones in the exhibition, encouraging us to think about how industries shape the city as well as our lives in the flow of time. ----------------------------------------------------- Of Thread and Stone ｜Curator｜TSOU Ting, WANG Han-fang ｜Artists｜Jam WU, Kieren KARRITPUL, Forensic Architecture, CHIU Chen-hung, KAO Ya-ting, CHEONG See-min, Akac Orat, Slavs and Tatars, HUANG Po-chih, Rayyane TABET、jiandyin、Nii Nami