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Call for papers: Costume and Textile Association symposium 2013

25 October 2012 – 4.24pm

The 2013 annual symposium of the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ) will be held in Auckland on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd March 2013.

Hosted by The Auckland Museum Institute in conjunction with the Centre for New Zealand Art Research and Discovery, this event promises to deliver two days of entertaining speakers united by their enthusiasm for costume and textiles.

This year’s theme Gathering: connections/recollections suggests both the act of coming together and the practice of assembling.  The 2013 symposium marks the return of the symposium to Auckland, the birthplace of CTANZ.  This theme, therefore, affords scope for a diversity of interpretations across the costumed and textiled world.

A family gathering , 16.05.1920 by Leslie Adkin. Gift of G. L. Adkin family estate, 1964. Te Papa

Interested presenters are invited to submit an abstract on this theme (no more than 300 words) and short biography to Finn McCahon-Jones at fmccahonjones@aucklandmuseum.com by Friday 25 January 2013. Word documents are preferred and please ensure that the document, not just the email, includes your name, paper title and contact email address. Successful applicants will be notified by 1 February 2013.

Successful applicants are not required to be current members of CTANZ, but will need to register for the symposium. Final presentations will be eligible for inclusion in Context, the CTANZ bi-annual publication.

 

 

 

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Symposium: Material Histories: Antipodean Perspectives

18 October 2012 – 9.39am

From the British Museum’s global History of the World in 100 objects to the recent gorgeous local publication Te Hao Nui The Great Catch: Object stories from Te Manawa Museum, it is clear that there is renewed interest and excitement in material culture. Antiques, vintage and retro, as well as museum collections and would be collectors are everywhere. What does this mean for the history we research, write, display and put online?

Te Papa and Massey University have joined together to host ‘Material Histories: Antipodean Perspectives’. This symposium brings together historians, curators, artists and designers, plus postgraduate students. International speakers will put research conducted locally into an international perspective. As well, there will be exhibitions and behind the scenes tours of Te Papa. Please join us to hear fascinating accounts from scholars at the cutting edge, see what is being done in print, on display and online, and be part of moving this exciting research area forward!

Date:               15-16 November 2012

Venues:           Te Ara Hihiko, Creative Arts Building, Block 12, Massey University, Wellington and Te Papa, on the Wellington Waterfront

To view the programme and register click here.

Enquiries:        Bronwyn Labrum     B.J.Labrum@massey.ac.nz

Keynote Speaker:        Professor Beverly Lemire, Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History & Classics and Department of Human Ecology, Director of the Material Culture Institute, University of Alberta, Canada.

A member of the Royal Society of Canada, her publications include Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain, 1660-1800, (1991) Dress, Culture and Commerce, (1997), and The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600-1900 (2005). Beverly has worked with collections at major museums in Canada, the US, Portugal, Spain, India and Britain. She has recently completed the book Cotton (2011) for Berg Publishers, in the series entitled ‘Textiles that Changed the World’. With Lesley Miller she co-edited Textile History (2002-2007), the longest-established international journal on the production, consumption, meanings and conservation of textiles and dress. The history of material culture remains one of her long-standing and continuing interests.

Other confirmed speakers include Dr Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton); Dr Graeme Were (University of Queensland); artist Areta Wilkinson; Dr Bronwyn Dalley (independent scholar); Dr Kate Hunter (Victoria University of Wellington); Kirstie Ross (Te Papa); Dr Kerry Taylor (Massey University); Fiona McKergow (independent scholar), Douglas lloyd-Jenkins and Georgina White(Hawke’s Bay Museum) plus a postgraduate panel of current students engaged in material culture studies research.

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2012 Costume and Textile Symposium – registrations open!

6 June 2012 – 6.00pm

Registrations are now open for this year’s annual NZ Costume and Textile Association symposium – Town & Country. The symposium is being held in Nelson, which will hopefully live up to its sunny reputation come July. To download a registration form click here.

This year the CTANZ is delighted to be hosting three speakers whose expertise will bring a truly international flavour to the annual symposium. We are thrilled to welcome Mary Kisler as a keynote. Mary Kisler is the Senior Curator at Auckland Art Gallery, and is well-known nationally through her lively conversations about art with Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand. Much to our delight, she is also working alongside the Art Team at Te Papa at present. Her infectious enthusiasm for art history and ability to decode the stories embedded within artworks is guaranteed to make for a highly entertaining and thought-provoking keynote address.

With her interest in portraiture, costume and textiles are an important part of Mary’s research as they hold many subtle hints about the character of the sitter. Her keynote address is enticingly entitled Silken Slippers, Wooden Shoes and is inspired by this portrait of Louise de Kéroualle, King Charles II’s mistress. Of Louise’s appearance, Mary mysteriously comments ‘sometimes signs and symbols are not what they seem’.

Portrait of Louise de Kerouaille by Henri Gascar ca. 1670 (Auckland Gallery of Art, Auckland New Zealand)

From 17th century intrigue, we hit the road with  Ann-Maree Reaney and Jill Kinnear, who will be presenting their collaborative textile/art project American Road Trip.

Four Corners dress from American Road Trip. Photograph copyright and courtesy of Ann-Maree Reaney and Jill Kinnear. This project has received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Ann-Maree is a practicing visual artist based in Brisbane, where she has had a considerable career both as an artist and an educator.  Jill is a textile designer and artist currently based in Savannah, Georgia, where she holds the position of Professor of Fibers at Savannah College of Art and Design. In American Road Trip, the pair have created a collaborative series of printed textile forms that are wearable, as well as contextual photographs and videos, which capture the essence of travel.  Using textile, structure and digital pattern, these collaborative works reflect an abiding interest in other cultures, experiences and the unique perspective of a journey. They will come to us fresh from a research trip to India.

These are just two of the 20 presentations that will make up the two-day symposium. For a full programme keep an eye out on the Costume and Textile Association blog. The symposium is open to members and non-members alike, and newcomers are always warmly welcomed.

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Costume and Textile symposium: call for papers

17 February 2012 – 5.38pm

The Costume & Textile Association of New Zealand has just announced that its 2012 annual Symposium will be held in Nelson in late July.

Hosted in conjunction with the Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, this event promises to deliver two days of entertaining speakers united by their enthusiasm for all things fabric and frocks. Dates will be confirmed as soon as possible – visit the CTANZ website and or blog for updates.

This year’s theme explores the opposing forces of Town and Country. From the colours and patterns of nature through to the fashions of the high street, Town and Country have provided a backdrop to a world of textile and costume. In a country such as New Zealand, where are our lives are so responsive to these locations, our textile traditions reflect their importance.

First Prize – Raffia Work, Hawke’s Agricultural and Pastoral Show, 1933. Collection of the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust: Ruawharo Ta-u-rangi 97/17/

Equally interesting are the meeting points of Town and Country – the places and moments when the contrasts between the two locations is brought into focus.  The fable of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse has long been used to explore this divide: the bright city lights versus the rural idyll; luxury versus simplicity; rich versus poor; inside versus outside.

The 2012 annual symposium of the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand will explore both Town and Country, exploring the fashions and fads, colours and patterns, textile traditions and innovations of our past and present.

The CTANZ invite interested presenters to submit an abstract on this theme (no more than 300 words) and short biography to lhammonds@hbmag.co.nz by Friday 23 March 2012.  Word documents are preferred and please ensure that the document, not just the email, includes your name, paper title and contact email address. Successful applicants will be notified by March 30th.

Applicants are not required to be members of the Costume and Textile Association of New Zealand (CTANZ).  Final presentations will be eligible for inclusion in Context, the CTANZ bi-annual publication.

Symposium dates, registration information and an announcement of the keynote speakers for 2012 will be available soon. Visit the website http://www.costumeandtextile.co.nz or subscribe to the blog at http://ctanz.wordpress.com/ for regular updates.

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Conference: Celebrating Costume and Textiles

13 April 2011 – 5.52pm

The New Zealand Costume & Textile Association is a special interest group for the research and study of costume and textiles. Its membership draws together some of the country’s leading artists, curators, academics, researchers and textile conservators, along passionate collectors and enthusiasts.  The annual symposium is a highlight of the organisation’s activities, attracting presenters from across New Zealand and the world.

In fancy dress, circa 1930, Richardson, H Linley (1878–1947), Palmerston North. Purchased 1948. Te Papa

In fancy dress, circa 1930, Richardson, H Linley (1878–1947), Palmerston North. Purchased 1948.

This year the symposium theme is simple: In the words of ‘80s funksters Kool and the Gang in their 1984 chart-topper ‘Celebration’. Presenters have been invited to “Celebrate good times, come on” by exploring the role  that dress and textiles play in the rituals of celebration. From the wide-ranging response, 20 presentations were selected that promise to make the 2011 symposium a great weekend celebrating fabric, fashion and frivolities the world over.

Registration forms are available from the CTANZ website.

Keynote speakers

This year’s keynote speakers are Auckland Museum exhibition developer Georgina White, and Liliana Pomazan, a Senior Lecturer in the Fashion programme at Melbourne’s prestigious RMIT University.

Both keynote speakers this year are acclaimed writers in the field of fashion and textiles. Georgina’s Light Fantastic: Dance Floor Courtship in New Zealand takes a trip through the countries dance-halls, from the early settlers through to the modern school ball. Liliana was co-editor of the recently released Australian Fashion Unstitched: The last 60 years – a history of Australian fashion that covers topics as diverse as the swimwear industry, fashion photography and the contemporary avant-garde.

If you would like regular updates on costume and textile related events happening around the country, you can also sign up the the blog Dress Address.

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William Colenso anniversary celebrations

30 March 2011 – 12.31pm
William Colenso, Circa 1880, Maker unknown. Purchased 1916. Te Papa

William Colenso, Circa 1880, Maker unknown. Purchased 1916. Te Papa

As the History Team prepares to bring out William Colenso’s magnificent printing press for the forthcoming exhibition Oceania – Early Encounters (opening 6 August 2011), I am reminded that the Hawke’s Bay Museum & Art Gallery are planning ‘to celebrate the life and ideas of Colenso – one of the fathers of New Zealand – on the bicentenary of his birth’ from 9 to 13 November 2011.

The event programme will be centred around an academic conference. Here is their call for expressions of interest and papers:

“A printer and missionary, explorer and botanist, an MP and author – William Colenso was a maverick.

“Controversial, opinionated, insightful and passionate, he had a keen appreciation of what it was to be an inhabitant of these shores in its earliest incarnation as a world of Maori and Pakeha. It is only today that we can see William Colenso in the round: a talented polymath, at home crossing the Ruahines, providing Kew Gardens with knowledge of New Zealand plants, or writing and printing the only published eyewitness account of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Columbian printing press, 1841, Clymer and Dixon . (1813–1850), Clymer, George (1752–1834), England. Gift of Kerslake, Billens and Humphrey Ltd, 1974. Te Papa

Columbian printing press, 1841, Clymer and Dixon . (1813–1850), Clymer, George (1752–1834), England. Gift of Kerslake, Billens and Humphrey Ltd, 1974. Te Papa

“The aim of the Bicentenary is to explore the breadth of Colenso’s life and ideas, so there are many ways to be involved whether your interest lies in botany, theology, New Zealand history, education or politics.

For more information about the symposium and call for papers, visit the Hawke’s Bay Museum & Art Gallery’s website.

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