Konstfacks forskningsplattform Heritage, Culture, Community har bjudit in forskningsmiljön Textila arv att arrangera ett forskningsseminarium. Textila arv är en forskningsmiljö under ledning av professor Maja Gunn, finansierad av Vetenskapsrådet 2025-2030, som undersöker museers textila samlingar.
Forskningsseminariet transfer/translate/reconstruct [överför, översätt, rekonstruera]: metoder i att undersöka museers samlingar tar avstamp i arbetet med museers samlingar och metoder av att bedriva forskning om, med och genom konstnärlig praktik. Seminariet modereras av Maja Gunn, med presentationer av professor Julia Binter; konstnär Banji Chona; konstnär Matilda Dominique; och forskare Frida Hållander. Seminariet avslutas med ett gemensamt samtal och reflektion.
Prof. Dr. Maja Gunn is a professor and research leader at the Department of Crafts at Konstfack. She leads Konstfack’s research platform Heritage, Culture, Community and is also the head of the artistic research environment Textile Heritage, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025–2030).
Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, University of Bonn, is a social anthropologist with a background in theatre, film, and media studies, specializing in material culture and critical museum and heritage studies. She works across transdisciplinary contexts and with diverse stakeholders, focusing on the colonial entanglements of museums and developing innovative ways to bring different forms of knowledge about collections into dialogue.
Scholar and artist of Zambezian Earth, Banji Chona explores relationality, ancestral continuities, and reclamation. Working through storytelling and community engagement, she challenges colonial ways of knowing and develops alternatives, centered on her methodology, Radical Zambezian Reimagination. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the research environment Textile Heritage, in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum, Southnord, NKF, and IASPIS.
Artist Matilda Dominique is a Stockholm based weaver who’s practice touch upon spatial and bodily perception through scale, movement and collective processes in order to highlight domestic textile objects as well as the processes of making them. Her works include in-depth explorations of weave techniques as sculptural, spatial and historically layered structures as well as monumental, collaborative and site specific performances where the body and weaving tool becomes one and the same. April 2026 she was an artist-in-residence at the research environment Textile Heritage.
Dr. Frida Hållander is a researcher at Konstfack, working in the research environment Textile Heritage. In her research, she has focused particularly on crafts in relation to class, gender and labor. Within Textile Heritage, she primarily works with the collections at the Textile Museum of Sweden and the Röhsska Museum.