TEXTile Manifestoes is an interdisciplinary anthology that pulls textile art, fashion, and textuality into dialogue with political theory, philosophy, sociology, and art history — a genuinely cross-disciplinary project built from collaboration rather than curation.
About This Book
Born from a cross-disciplinary initiative at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, TEXTile Manifestoes gathers student works alongside international contributions to trace the connections between making cloth and making meaning. Students across disciplines wove together fashion collections and urgent contemporary concerns — mass surveillance, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, identity, memory, and mental health — producing manifestoes that refuse the boundaries between craft, politics, and theory. International contributions range from ancient Andean textile studies to neuropsychoanalysis, from literary and art criticism to aesthetics and musicology, situating student practice within a far broader intellectual field. It is a rare anthology that takes textile art seriously as a site of critical thought.
Key Features
- 456 pages of interdisciplinary essays, student manifestoes, fashion documentation, and international critical contributions
- Edited by Pavel Liška and Robin R. Mudry
- Published by Artmap, ISBN 9788088308409
What You'll Discover
- How student-led design manifestoes at a Prague arts academy wove fashion collections together with issues of mass surveillance, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality
- The relationship between textile practice and questions of identity, memory, and mental health as explored across disciplines
- International scholarship spanning ancient Andean textile studies, neuropsychoanalysis, literary criticism, aesthetics, and musicology — all brought into conversation with contemporary making
- A model for cross-disciplinary collaboration in which discourse and material production are treated as equally generative
About the Author
TEXTile Manifestoes is edited by Pavel Liška and Robin R. Mudry, who developed the project out of a cross-disciplinary collaboration between several studios at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 456
- Dimensions: 27 x 21 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788088308409
- Publisher: Artmap
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Fashion designers, textile artists, design academics, and readers interested in the intersection of material culture, critical theory, and contemporary political discourse.