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Loom and Language: reflexive shimmer you can take my place you can glimmer 
University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Crafts (KHV), Textiles.
2026 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (One Year)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

This project explores how weaving can function as an embodied language and as a resistance to what I call normative legibility, defined as the demand that experiences of marginalised bodies should be translated into universal narratives. Departing from lived experiences of transness and being othered, I examine how artistic research can produce knowledge that does not require this translation. I position weaving as a material extension of writing-with-the-body, and develop the concept of embodied failure defined as meaning-making through material resistance and bodily limitations. My practice is grounded in the dialogue between text/textile and body. Expanding on theorists such as Mara Lee, Audrey Lorde and Cathrine Dormor, I explore how temporality can be materialised in the loom. I argue that weaving can function as both poetry and theory. Weaving is a mode of meaning-making that emerges through the body, time and material inscription rather than through explanatory language. In doing so, weaving can open up a poetic ambiguous space for trans narratives beyond binary readings of identity, politics and art. The outcome of this project is a series of woven silk objects installed spatially to activate a non-linear and partly distorted reading.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2026. , p. 50
Keywords [en]
weaving, poetry, text and textile, otherness, embodiment, materiality, transness, alternative languages
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Crafts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-11012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-11012DiVA, id: diva2:2088024
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CRAFT! - Textiles (Master)
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Note

1st opponent: Elisabeth Hjorth

2nd opponent: Sam Hultin

Available from: 2026-08-10 Created: 2026-07-24 Last updated: 2026-08-10Bibliographically approved

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