{"id":28739,"date":"2025-08-04T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28739"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:28:25","slug":"examining-the-queer-potential-of-textiles-in-art-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/examining-the-queer-potential-of-textiles-in-art-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining the Queer Potential of Textiles in Art (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzuvqYXhwTo?si=cfFybhg4OXjIbOEq\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (1:32:01): The Open Mesh of Possibilities: Examining the Queer Potential of Textiles in Art. In a discussion at the Courtauld Instutute of Art (London, UK) moderated by Joseph McBrinn, the artists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarah-zapata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Zapata<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljroberts.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LJ Roberts<\/a> will explore the queer potential of textiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarah-zapata.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Zapata\u2019s work<\/a> is inspired by her Peruvian and North American heritage, exploring the spaces between cultures, time periods, craft and fine art. She engages with traditional materials and techniques to interrogate the histories of labour, gender and power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljroberts.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LJ Roberts<\/a> draws upon their experiences of marginality as a queer, gender non-conforming, and non-binary subject, reflecting on how this mirrors the positioning of textile and craft within the art world. Influenced by activist art centred on HIV\/AIDS, Roberts views their craft as a tool for activism, aiming to \u2018reclaim the mastery of craft\u2019 to dismantle oppressive power structures.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (1:32:01): The Open Mesh of Possibilities: Examining the Queer Potential of Textiles in Art. In a discussion at the Courtauld (London) moderated by Joseph McBrinn, the artists Sarah Zapata and LJ Roberts will explore the queer potential of textiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,23,1581],"tags":[1263,1378],"class_list":["post-28739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-britain","category-queer-art","category-textile","tag-lj-roberts","tag-sarah-zapata"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28955,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions\/28955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}