“Home Is A Concept explores homes beyond borders through capturing people’s connection with each other and nature. These photos and prints are documentations of home as where I currently live (Vermont, U.S.A.), and where I am from (Suzhou, China).
… Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
Caroline Harris dives into the experimental world of visual poetry…
… Vibrant ecosystems of poetic making
Explore the What Lies Beneath – Women, Politics, Textiles reading list compiled by Laura Moseley, founder of Common Threads Press…
… Reading List: What Lies Beneath
Stephanie Frondoso explores the invisible work by artist Christina Quisumbing Ramilo, bringing focus to the invisible labor behind works of art that use discarded objects from studios, workshops and the supply stores that Ramilo frequents.
… Debris: Christina Quisumbing Ramilo
For this issue of Decorating Dissidence we wanted to reflect on last year’s centenary of the Bauhaus. Now at 101 years, the celebrations may be over but the movement’s legacy still offers much to be learned, developed and reflected on.
… Editorial: Bauhaus Continued
Explore examples of female image makers and their contribution to Bauhaus through 5 defining photographs.
… Frauen Vision: 5 Progressive Photographs by 5 Unsung Bauhaus Women
Τhe centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019 created a unique opportunity for a re-examination of craft in the Bauhaus movement through many exhibitions in Germany and beyond.
… Exhibition Review: Craft in the Bauhaus centenary and beyond
Hannah Waldron’s weavings translate the dynamism of modern architecture and cityscapes into fabric design…
… Interview with Hannah Waldron
Continuing Decorating Dissidence’s exploration into the legacy of the Bauhaus weaving workshops, Suzanna Petot got in touch with Erica Warren, Associate Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, to ask a few questions about her career and her most recent exhibition…
… Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
‘Something speaks to us, a sound, a touch, hardness or softness, it catches us and asks us to be formed’ – Anni Albers, ‘Material as Metaphor’ (1982)
… ‘The Event of a Thread’: a recap of Weave It! an exhibition curated by Decorating Dissidence
Purpose-built to house the ‘Peckham Experiment’, The Pioneer Health Centre’s functionality and modern design went hand in hand.
… Pioneers in Peckham: Bauhaus Legacies in London
The work within the weaving workshop and beyond, was transformative and fundamental to the school’s success…
… Women of Bauhaus: Beyond the warp and weft…
How much Bauhaus is too much Bauhaus?
… Does the Bauhaus belong in a Museum?
In 1922, ‘Bauhaus in Calcutta‘ saw artists travel from Germany to India to exhibit work and sketches alongside modern Indian artists like Nandalal Bose and Sunayani Devi.
… The Chairs of Chandigarh…
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