Barbro Scholz

Personal Wearable Light Space

  • Performative Exploration 3

    Performative Exploration 3

    The materials in Performative Exploration 3 were reduced to three different silk fabrics, pleated in two chevron patterns.

    In preparation, pleated samples were made in different black and white silks, and in different sizes.

    From there I selected three materials that have different appearance: Antung, Crepe and Organza.

    While Antung is dense and rather stiff, woven of thicker threads, Crepe is woven of very fine threads. It is dense, and very soft; its own weight in relation with the inherent stability makes the fabric react stronigly to outer conditions like gravity, air flow, pulling.

    Organza is nearly transparent and is stiff and light weight. The reflection in the fibre is very strong, the apperancy changed significantly when interacting with light.

    With kind support by Isadora Tomasi and Shadman Shahid.

  • Performative Exploration 2

    Performative Exploration 2

    Performative exploration 2 combined pleated textiles wearables and light.

    The light was not integrated into the textile, but made of textiles and wearable on the body. The textiles were prepared with the focus on variety in densities, tranlucencies and soft-/stiffness, all in a size allowing full body interaction.

    Organza Pleat red
    Organza Pleat blue
    Pleated Laser Voile +LI/VI
    Pleated Tulle
    Pleated Dupion Silk + LI/VI
    Smocked LI/VI
    Pleated Polyester Spacer Fabric and Elastic Black Tulle
    Quilted and Padded Silver foile

    The textiles had applied handles or loops to provide an option to wear. The dimensions to explore were the prompts for the performer: Material, Movement, Body, Space and Temporality.

    The created images formed new questions about inside and outside, tangible/intangible space, wearable/object.

    The exploations took place in a studio space and were filmed. The films were then edited together with spoken quotes by the performer.

    Raibow Tulle illuminated
    Light cast in the space
    Illuminated Light body
    Light cast in the space when wearable was opened
    Illuminated Light body
    Illuminated Light body, visible bodyparts.

    With kind support by Shelly de Vito and Les Moulins de Paillaird Centre d’Art Contemporaire.

  • Performative Exploration 1

    In this performative exploration, together with Shelly DeVito for les Moulins de Pailliards Art Centre Contemporaire we explore how different textiles invite for performativity.

    Elastic Tube
    Unfolded Pleated Materials
    Pleated Material Bounces in Countermovement

    Outcome was, that 1) the characteristic of the textile becomes more relevant when the material is wearable, but no garment; 2) the colors influence significantly how the wearable is perceived, for example in the stripy tube, the colors and pattern was to dominant; 3) the wearables should provide tranformability through movement and handling. Thus, the pleated wearable was most interesting to explore, since it has a non defined but wearabel shape, looks delicate and constructed and allowe deconstruction an dinteraction with air flow. It provides its own expression in movement that can result in a dialogue with the performer.

  • Experiencing Text and Textile

    Experiencing Text and Textile

    This is a collaborative project consisting of two shared residencies, on in a distance and one in presence. The project was presented in a performance lecture on 28 Apr 2024 , as part of “In the Making #5” – at West, Den Haag, NL.

    From the Program:

    “In their practice, both artists are interested in ways of communicating aesthetic experience. Procedures of documentation and transmission bring up questions concerning audience, spectatorship and participation in the art field and artistic research. We aim to open up for participative thinking and valuing aesthetic and experiential knowledge of ourselves and others.

    Artist and designer Barbro Scholz deals with experiential qualities of tangible (textiles) and intangible (light) materials, and how their interplay invites for novel forms of performativity.

    Performer and artist Li Lorian is interested in practices of reading text, to oneself and out loud, voicing and finding new means of commonality. Both of them have an interest in movement, affect, and entanglement to be investigated in a playful, participatory, collaborative research. This session is a great opportunity for them to find ways to share their yet unformulated thoughts in an experiential method with an audience.”

    https://researchplatform.art/events/in-the-making-24/in-the-making-six-sunday-afternoon-sessions-on-research-in-the-arts-5

    www.lilorian.com

  • Sampling Study 1

    The sample study follows the textile design process of transformable textiles to be used together with light on the body.

    The samples were examined through handling the textiles, to learn about their performative properties and their mechanical transformability and how their expression could change when moved.

    Moreover, they were photographed in different light settings to learn about the reflection and diffusion, and different appearance in different light settings.

    Pleated Wool Crepe
    Pleated translucent Silk Crepe
    Pleated Dupion Silk

  • Pilot Project – Exploring Wearable Light

    Personal Wearable Light Space

    When makes light the wearer feel safe and when vulnerable?

    “Now I am here. All by myself? This is my space.
    Light is strong, it is going to keep the wild animals away. Cactus looks soft in warm light. Light shapes the body, the body shapes the light. Light shapes the space. The body shapes the light space.

    Sunset Blvd, LA
    Anyone sees me, before I see anyone.
    Light is here to destroy places. To destroy minimum of privacy.
    What does my light space do? Are you shelter or threat?”

    60 x40x 3cm, Textile Wearables

    Online Exhibition Art of Research Conference 2020

  • textiles – folds – layers

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    This work is about folds, pleats, layers.

    Unexpected unfolding, expanding, traces.

    This work is also about traces and unfolding kin.

    It was realized in the residency at Poppspacking in Hamtramck, Michigan, in the years of bancruptsy in Detroit, MI.

    Empty houses, left family homes, textiles, personal objects, leaving traces of lives in better times.