Maracadabou

In the midst of a thousand colors and motifs. Between geometric shapes, faces and fruits. Among the lines and the organic silhouettes. Maracadabou offers you scarves all more fanciful than the others. Like the girl who created them, Maracadabou dresses your neck with silky, sparkling, radiant silk … So that you too can sparkle in society.

Emilie, draws inspiration from the Silk Route to add panache to her imaginative French creations.

Throught her works, we appear a rich univers with many influence and gorgeous patterns such as candies. With all this indredients, Emilie is going to bring of the sun in your life.

If you too to keep you your Peter Pan’s soul, come to travel in this fanciful and imaginary’s world.

https://www.maracadabou.com/

FITE’s meetings

FITE’s meetings are part of the festival’s overall approach, with a strong desire to question the heritage and cultural meanings of textiles: the FITE focus on promoting human, economic and ecological stakes involved in extra ordinary textiles. Beyond artistic creations offered in the context of the different exhibitions of the festival, the meetings will allow to deepen themes intrinsic to textile in other forms. By bringing together guest creators as well as students, researchers, academics, scientists, industry and journalists, they will be the opportunity to start a special dialogue and to invite FITE’s public to foster thinking. As part of this 2018 edition and the “Deviations” theme, those exchanges will invite guests and the public to question the place of textile creation in the criticism, denunciation and deconstruction of socio-cultural issues that are both timeless and current.

The mediation of these meetings will be provided by Simon Njami, independent international curator, Beatrice Korc, new cultural objects / consulting and project creation, and Christine Athenor, general commissioner of FITE. The design and organization of these meetings were handled by Oceane Demeure and Beatrice Korc, with the support of Christine Athenor and Thomas Leveugle.

  • IN Bargoin MUSEUM
    FROM TUESDAY 18th to sunday 23RD SEPTEMBER 2018

    Meetings every morning from 10am to  11am with artists, artisans and designers.
    Brunch on Sunday from 10am.

  • AT THE TOURISM OFFICE (FIRST FLOOR OF THE OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN TOURISM, IN CONFERENCE ROOM)
    THURSDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER 2018

     

Meet at the metropolitan tourist office at 9 am
Visit of the exhibitions of the schools from 9 am to 12:30 pm and from 2pm to 4pm, round table open to the public

• The renewal of textile vision through collaboration between students, designers, designers and textile companies

With students of La Martinière Diderot, l’École supérieure de design et métiers d’art d’Auvergne, l’École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne, l’ENSATT, l’Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
With collective Macocoï
With companies Fontanelle and Ennery Confections (subject to change)
Mediation provided by Beatrice Korc

This meeting and the challenges it sets for itself to raise are truly at the heart of the FITE’s project, whose aim is to stimulate exchanges and innovations in the extended field of textiles. Students in textile manufacturing or creation and professionals in the textile industry have chosen to seize the opportunity to meet for this round table and to generate exchanges and potential collaborations. This meeting aims to address the renewal of the textile vision in the context of cooperation between students and companies. It will bring out many issues, not only socio-cultural but also industrial and economic, driven by textiles and their uses. Fostering closer ties between students and businesses is an imperative for putting the artistic, creative and innovative dimension of schools at the service of practical and economic needs of businesses. More broadly, it will be a question of valorizing formations and trades of textile through a glance which remains however lucid on the reality of professional ground.

Co-production HS_Projects, Bargoin Museum, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, City of Clermont-Ferrand

  • AT centre Blaise-Pascal / Centre Camille Claudel in the auditorium
    friday 21st september 2018 

  • INTRODUCTORY WORK  : Coral / Artefact : textile as a response to environmental issues

     

With Jérémy Gobé, Isabelle Domart-Coulon and SCOP Fontanille
10 am to 12 pm – Meeting at 9:45 am at the Bargoin Museum

This meeting which will open on Friday appeared as a commonplace: it is indeed the meeting between its speakers which is at the origin of the project CORAIL / ARTEFACT, introductory work of this edition of the FITE. Through the work of Jérémy Gobé, visual artist, Rolland Arnaud, Scop Fontanille, and Isabelle Domart Coulon, researcher in marine biology at the MNHN, art, the textile industry and science are combine to respond to an environmental emergency. The CORAIL / ARTEFACT project aims to contribute to protection of coral reefs, marine lungs of our environment seriously affected by global warming, by using the Puy en Velay lace as a “substrate” that would allow the coral to reproduce and to subsist. This encounter between art, industry and science at the service of biodiversity conservation leads us to consider the importance of textiles as a response to environmental issues, a singular and salutary deviation.
© 2018 – Coral Artefact / Jeremy Gobé


TRANSGRESSION

  • Textile as a response to issues of representativeness and visibility


With Nikki Luna, Alexis Peskine, Eric Agbessi, Bruno Boudjelal, Dolores Bakela and Adiaratou Diarrassouba
At 1pm

This meeting around the transversal theme of “Transgression” refers to the idea of ​​a critical attitude and emancipation, and will bring together artists, academics and committed journalists. According to Nikki Luna, a Filipino feminist artist, “Femininity is a weapon”. She takes a critical look on various cultural traditions and expresses a denunciation of culture of oppression and rape suffered by women. The creations of Alexis Peskine, born of a Franco-Russian father and an Afro-Brazilian mother, are characterized by an aesthetic driven by the black identity question and by a denunciation of all forms of discrimination, in which they join Nikki Luna’s critical perspective. Bruno Boudjelal is a photographer with strong militant commitment: invited in residence in Clermont-Ferrand, who makes photographic and videographic series that are as many stories on the themes of travel, home, waiting. The question of identity, particularly minorities identity, is thus at the heart of its projects.

©Peskine

Eric Agbessi, professor-researcher at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, has worked extensively on the black color and is coordinating the “Voilées” project, an analysis of the reception of the black veil in the French public space. a dual perspective, of communication and civilization. To complete this rich and diverse group of speakers, Dolores Bakela and Adiaratou Diarrassouba will be present. These two independent Parisian journalists are at the origin of the Afro media and event platform, as well as the first edition of the Fraîches Women Festival. They have a critical and curious look on an “invisible” population, sometimes victimized, of which we never speak in the end, Afrofrench, Afrodescendants, blacks of France. The meeting between those personalities, as eclectic as well exciting will highlight issues of transgression inherent to issues of visibility and representativeness of minorities, whatever they may be, and how textiles can be an answer to these issues.

Co-production HS_Projets, Musée Bargoin, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Ville de Clermont-Ferrand


CIRCULATION

  • Textiles in the history of historical and current human migrations

With Nobukho Nqaba, Lawrence Lemaoana, Khaled Zouari, Laurent Soubise and Sophie Tabakov
At 2:15 pm

The “Circulation” theme can refer to the notion of trajectories: trajectories of fabrics and clothing but also life trajectories. It has been exploited by artists and academics gathered for this meeting as a reference to textile and human historical and current migrations.

The South African artist Nobukho Nqaba works from materials strongly related to migration and human movements, with a very personal point of view, reflecting the notions of family and home. Lawrence Lemaoana, who is also a South African artist, proposes through his use of Kanga fabrics a work on migrations specific to African fabrics, migrations that make those fabrics representations of global social and economic imbalances. Khaled Zouari is a professor-researcher at the University of Clermont-Ferrand and will enrich this meeting with his specialization on communication issues, migration and contemporary social ties. Laurent Soubise and Sophie Tabakov, of the dance company Anou Skan, realized during their residency at FITE an artistic and pedagogical work in contact with people asking for asylum. The culmination of this work is a film “collection of gestures in exile”, which questions, through gesture, the life course of those people marked by migration. Together, the speakers of those meetings will present trajectories of textiles and humans as metaphors for migration, instability, economic, social and cultural imbalances.

© Nobukho Nqaba


COLLISION

  • Textile as a tool for cultural affirmation and reappropriation

With Eloi Sessou, Cecile Ndiaye, Jocelyn Armel (Le Bachelor) and Nicole Foucher
At 3:30 pm 

A “pile-up”, a collision or a simple encounter, is often necessary to assert oneself, to make oneself visible, to provoke an evolution. The works of the artists brought together by this meeting reveal the idea of ​​a pileup serving the expression of a strong identity.

The Ivorian fashion designer Eloi Sessou defends a resolutely modern African fashion, marked by symbolic struggles between the economic and cultural markets. It focuses on highlighting the way African women appropriate fashion as a form of strong cultural expression. Cecile Ndiaye is a designer behind the leather goods brand Studio Wudé, which combines design, art, crafts, leather and Wax fabric, questioning the relationship between man, nature and territory. She develops a reflection on Wax as a symbol of the power relationship in Africa. Jocelyn Armel says The Bachelor is creator and Sapper: the colorful Society of Ambiancers and Elegant People, born in Congo in the 70s, corresponds to an art of clothing and living, represented by African-inspired dandies French bourgeois of the nineteenth century. These creators, especially through their use of Wax, make textiles and clothing a form of reappropriation of cultural and economic power. The textile constitutes here a real tool of affirmation and cultural reappropriation. Nicole Foucher, senior lecturer in cinema and fashion at Université Lumière Lyon 2 and consultant at ESMOD Paris, will enrich this meeting with her deep knowledge of dynamics of fashion evolution.

Co-production HS_Projets, Musée Bargoin, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Ville de Clermont-Ferrand


TRANSCENDENCE

  • Digital to increase our textile use

With Claire Eliot, Christine Browaeys, Siwa Mgoboza and Sultra&Barthélémy.
At 4:45 pm

The notion of “Transcendence” refers to the idea of ​​a sublimation or, more concretely, an overtaking. Applied to textiles, it corresponds to the desire to continuously amplify and improve our textile use. In this perspective this meeting was built around the digital uses of textiles.

Designer, researcher and teacher, Claire Eliot has a double baggage: fashion and digital. She works a constant link between fashion, new technologies and social behaviors, with a particular conception of the designer role, both artist and social actor. Christine Browaeys, author of the book “The stakes of new textile materials,” is texturgist (T3Nel). With her technological skills, she works in the innovative textiles sector. The textile appears in his work as a versatile material, constantly renewed in its relation to space, volume and humans. The artists Sultra & Barthélémy also develop a new “augmented” textile thanks to technology, both organic and communicating: their project Retina_Pictonique is an artistic proposal that brings out all the modernity of the textile material. From the perspective of a digital textile approach but also the idea of ​​an overtaking, will be present Siwa Mgoboza, South African artist whose works explore a plural and globalized African identity. His work “The Beings of Africadia” invents a post-colonial world characterized by a futuristic hybridization between nature and human. Through an utopian and futuristic vision, Siwa Mgoboza is exploring new dimensions of textile use and deviation.
© Claire Eliot, CC

Those meeting around hybridization, digital crafts, and living clothing, will tend to highlight technological and social practices of improvement, especially for a more ethical fashion.

Co-production HS_Projets, Musée Bargoin, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Ville de Clermont-Ferrand


Registration recommended : inscriptionfite@hs-projets.com

 

School’s installations

CENTRE ANATOLE FRANE – INSTALLATION THE ART OF FUZZINESS

Creations resulting from a workshop by Christelle Familiari revolving around the use of counter-intuitive materials, with the students of École supérieure d’art et de design de Saint-Étienne (ESADSE).

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Monday, September 17, to Friday, October 12, 2 pm to 7 pm (and by appointment in the morning)
Saturday, September 15, and Saturday, September 22, 2 pm to 7 pm, and Sunday, September 23, 10 am to 5 pm
Preview on September 15, 6 pm

Visits led by ESADSE and other students on September 15 and 19, as well as on September 20, followed by a talk in the Conference Room on the 1st floor of the Office de tourisme métropolitain.

Free admission


CENTRE BLAISE PASCAL / CENTRE CAMILLE-CLAUDEL – INSTALLATION DEVIATIONS

By the École supérieure d’arts appliqués (ESAA) La Martinière-Diderot de Lyon and the École supérieure design et métiers d’art d’Auvergne (ESDMAA) d’Yzeure.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Monday to Saturday, September 15 to September 29, 2 pm to 7 pm, and Sunday, September 23, 10 am to 5 pm. Closed on Monday, September 24.
Preview on September 18 at 6 pm

Visits led by ESAA and ESDMAA students from September 15 to September 22, as well as on 20 September in the morning (information at the FITE information desk), followed by a talk in the Conference Room on the 1st floor of the Office de tourisme métropolitain.

Free admission


CHAPELLE DE L’ANCIEN HOPITAL GÉNÉRAL – INSTALLATION DEVIATIONS… A BODY OF WORK

Installation of costumes sculptures by 2nd and 3rd year costume design students of the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT), in partnership with HTH/Bucol.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

September 15 to 23, 11 am to 5 pm
Vernissage September, 18 at 6pm
Visit on Thursday, September 20, in the morning (information at the FITE information desk), followed by a talk in the Conference Room on the 1st floor of the Office de tourisme métropolitain.

Free admission


ESPACE VICTOIRE – INSTALLATIONS ONCE UPON A GESTURE 

Transformation and repurposing of «Wax» fabrics made by the Vlisco company by students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (ArBA-EsA).

Also at the espace Victoire :

INSTALLATION 1+1

Seven designers from Brussels’ Macocoï collective granted each other a license to revisit a piece by another member, opening a research space where constraints act as an invitation to explore other aspects of their favorite techniques.

Visit by ArBa-Esa students on September 20, in the morning (details available at the FITE information desk), followed by a talk in the Conference Room on the 1st floor of the Office de tourisme métropolitain.

Free admission

Galerie de l’art du temps / Chapelle de l’oratoire – Collection of gestures in exile

The “galerie de l’art du temps / Chapelle de l’Oratoire” welcomes in the context of the Festival International des Textiles Extra ordinaires two propositions.

VIDEO INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE COLLECTE DE GESTES EN EXIL (“COLLECTION OF GESTURES IN EXILE”) 
Filmed projection of offered gestures to asylum seekers, highlighting everyone’s humanity to share, despite situations, by Anou Skan company, Sophie Tabakov, Laurent Soubise, and Didier Dematons for video realization.
Dance inspired by gestures collect, realized by asylum seekers, by company Anou Skan, and dancers Sophie Tabakov and Laurent Soubise

Tuesday 18th September from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday 19th to Sundays 23rd from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Danced performance Wednesday 19th at 7p.m.

PERFORMANCE QU’EST CE QUE JE VAIS FAIRE DE TOI ?
Sensitive and animated vision of our own monsters, by Nawelle Aïnèche : an animated costume, made up of weave made with videotapes magnetic bands.

Sunday 16th September 4 p.m.
Tuesday 18th September 4 p.m.

Concert : romanian fusion music – 20th September 2018

On Thursday the 20th of September in the auditorium of centre Blaise-Pascal / Camille Claudel, Romania will take the center-stage for a fusion of traditional and modern music, born from a collaboration between Florentin Dragomir (violin), Heiko Wilhelm (accordion) and the world music ensemble of the Conservatory, followed by the ichMachKrach! company and the band LosMoz.

  • FLORENTIN DRAGOMIR

Florentin Dragomir, born in Romania, lives and works in Lyon, France. After classical music studies, he turns to traditional musics. He plays in Romania and multiply musical experiences. He currently plays in Balkazard duo, living musics between gypsy jazz and romanian folklore.

  • HEIKO WILHELM

    Heiko Wilhelm, lives and works in Lyon, France. Graduate ingineer of the École Centrale de Lyon,  he began his artistic journey with classical piano. He moves early to other musical styles and participates in jazz, rock and song projects.  He learns accordion, clarinet and tuba. He founded the company ichMachKrach! and plays today with LosMoz, a trio that explores disjointed repertoires, making a large gap between musics of two worlds, classical and jazz repertoires.

Exhibition Bruno Boudjelal – Hotel Fontfreyde – photographic center

“Habiterai-je un jour dans la maison ?”

The hotel Fontfreyde – Photographic center is honoring the photographic work of Bruno Boudjelal. Invited for a residency by Clermont-Ferrand city, the photographer worked in Croix-de-Neyrat, Champratel and Vergnes districts for two years, to present several photographic and videographic series tackling themes such as travel, house, waiting and tramway.

Born in Montreuil in 1961, Bruno Boudjelal practise photography as a lifestyle. In 1993, he tracks his paternal origins in Algeria. This discover is the departure point of ten years of very personal explorations that lead him, between travel books and reports, to question his own identity.

PRATICAL INFORMATIONS

Hôtel Fontfreyde Centre photographique
34, rue des Gras
04 73 42 31 80

From May 4th to September 23th
From Monday to Saturday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and open Sunday 16th of September on the occasion of the European Days of Heritage and Sunday  23th of September.

Free entry 

Fashion show – 22nd of September

On September 22nd 2018, on Place de la Victoire, will be presented during a fashion show creations of Naco Paris (France), MIS WUDE (Senegal), Claire Eliot (France) and Eloi Sessou (Ivory Coast).
For  Claire Eliot, “clothing reacts to his surroundings”… That is why for this 2018 edition the fashion show will start during the day and finish at night : creations will be subjected to a changing environment, making you travel in French, Senegalese and Ivorian universes.

Artistic direction of the show : Naco Paris and Jacqueline Mamelle
Hairstyle creation of the show : Rust 

  • Naco Paris

    Described by the press as “the only fashion designer who doesn’t like fashion” or “the Robin Hood of fashion”, Naco Paris has been creating unisex collections inspired by his personal universe, his taste for art, the underground scene and the unusual since 2001.

    His collections combine ultra-modern aesthetics with a punk and minimalist attitude to condemn the excessive consumption of the luxury industry.

  • MIS WUDÉ

Studio WUDÉ is a fine leather goods company exploring issues of identity rooted in West African culture through in-depth research on traditional techniques, their transmission and the use of resources in the context of globalization.

  • Claire Eliot

As a co-founder of Fashion Tech, Claire Eliot is a pioneer of this transformation. By reacting to their environment, her textile creations pave the way to new modes of sensory communication, endowing the wearer with supernatural powers. Her clothes are designed for thinking beings embedded in networks of social relationships, whose choices inform their outward appearance and that of their clothes. Connectivity is woven within the fabric itself, allowing the wearer to deploy virtual information streams and to overcome his or her physical limitations through the hybridization of human body and technology.

  • Eloi Sessou

    Ivorian designer Eloi Sessou has been part of the fashion scene for fifteen years. His style consists in a symbiosis of clothing cultures harmoniously combined to create perfectly interpreted symphonies on the catwalks of Ivorian, African and Western fashion shows, to the delight of stylish consumers wise to the merits of these pieces.

     

Museum of the Lace Factory of Retournac

Find also the FITE in Retournac (2h from Clermont-Ferrand or Lyon) at musée des Manufactures de Dentelles de Retournac (Museum of the Lace Factory of Retournac)

Retrouvez aussi le FITE à Retournac (à 2h de Clermont-Ferrand ou de Lyon) au musée des Manufactures de Dentelles de Retournac, du 11 juillet au 28 septembre 2018. 

  • EXHIBITION “From romanian textile traditions to contemporary textile art : metamorphosis of raw silk”

    An exhibition offered by ethnographic museum of Brasov, Romania.

    Opening on Wednesday 11th at 11:30 a.m.

  • Unique presentation module Coral / Artefact

    Echoing the project Corail / Artefact by Jérémy Gobé in partnership with Fontanille Scop from Puy en Velay, Isabelle Domart-Coulon, ocean scientist MCAM/MNHN – supported by DRAC Auvergne Rhône Alpes and Clermont Auvergne Métropole, as part of Art Entreprise residency iniated by HS_Projets.

    Opening on Wednesday 11th at 11:30 a.m.

  • The museum at the showroom – creators’ market in Clermont-Ferrand

Objects and other textile creations in lace of Retournac, to discover in Retournac.

Friday 21st and saturday 22nd of september from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday 23rd of september from 9 a.m to 1 p.m.

practical informations

Musée des Manufactures de Dentelles
14 avenue de la gare
43130 Retournac
Phone : 33(0)4-71-59-41-63
E-mail : musee@ville-retournac.fr
Website : www.ville-retournac.fr/musee

Every day from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. / until 7 p.m. in July and August

Individual rates : 5 € full price / 3,5 € reduced price / free for children until 12 years old.
Group rates (more than 10 persons) : 3,5 € per personne + guided tour package 30 €, on reservation (morning or afternoon)

Workshops in libraries

From April to September 2018 are offered within the FITE creation workshops in Clermont-Ferrand librairies.

Open to all, experienced or not, those workshops allow to discover embroidery on pictures and customization and sewing techniques.

Atelier de broderie d’images

In order to pursue photographer Bruno Boudjelal‘s residence for children from Croix-de-Neyrat, Champratel and Vergnes district, Fatiha Noura offers embroidery whorkshops. From sophisticated patterns made by children, the aim is to create an embroider frame to go with the photography which will be transfered on a textile support. You can discover or refine your knowledge thanks to this textile workshop.

Atelier création de costume

In preparation of the FITE’S public dance which take place on September 22nd, we offer you to create your costume using old useless pieces of clothes : discover customisation and stitching while exploring your creativity.

 

More informations on days and hours of workshops on the 2018 FITE programme