Installation view from the exhibition No Admittance Except on Business, Salt Galata, 2026
Photo: Metean Bars (Salt)
Frida Hållander, Åsa Dybwad Norman, İzel Karaca, Vivien Tauchmann
"Enacting Experience: Learning from Labor Processes" comprises two workshops and a conversation that explore the textile industry through contemporary and historical perspectives on labor, working conditions, environmental impacts, and colonial legacies.
The workshop will expanding on the relationship between production, the body, and space explored in the exhibition No Admittance Except on Business, the program focuses on everyday factory practices and stories through workers’ embodied and social experiences across two distinct historical and geographical contexts.
It features two workshops: "Out of the Gears" led by Vivien Tauchmann and İzel Karaca, and "Factory Girls" led by Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman—alongside presentations introducing their respective practices, such as the research Hållander is conducting in the artistic research project Textile Heritage (2025–2030) at Konstfack. The presentations are followed by a conversation moderated by Eylül Şenses and Magnus Ericson.
The workshop is organized in conjunction with the exhibition No Admittance Except on Business and as part of Practice Matters, this free-admission event is a collaboration between IASPIS and Salt, and is programmed by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.
About Salt
Founded 2011, Salt is a cultural institution that develops innovative programs to create a free platform for encounters, research, and expression for its users and visitors. Salt’s programs comprise exhibitions, publications, digital projects, talks, conferences, film screenings, performances, and workshops.
Salt explores intersections and interactions between various disciplines and focuses on art, architecture, design, and social and economic history. The institution supports the production of knowledge by fostering the dialogue between the past and the present while addressing contemporary culture through new approaches and interpretations.
Salt’s expanding archive and library brings together resources focusing on Turkey as well as the geographies of Eastern Mediterranean and Eastern Europe from the late 19th century to the present. The institution's research projects offer a platform for co-learning and discussion among peers.