Regine Steenbock – Trachtenrealismus

Materialsichtung + Gespräch
Regine Steenbock (Modedesignerin /Künstlerin)
und Julia Berg (Ethnologin/Sinologin/Filmemacherin)

DONNERSTAG, 22. FEBRUAR 2018,
20.00 UHR

FRISE Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V.
Arnoldstraße 26–30, 22765 Hamburg
www.frise.de

Im Gespräch mit der Chinaexpertin Julia Berg werde ich von meinen textilen Forschungsreisen zu den chinesischen Minderheiten in der Provinz Guizhou berichten. Meine Recherchen zielten dort insbesondere auf die kryptischen Traditionen der Indigo-Färberei und den alltäglichen Trachtenrealismus, der mir im “Autonomen Bezirk ” der Miao und Dong in Qiandongnan begegnete:

Mit experimentierfreudiger Unvoreingenommenheit, kunsthandwerklicher Hingabe und ökonomischen Pragmatismus werden moderne Errungenschaften aus der (han)chinesischen Billigproduktion mit der unermesslich zeitaufwendigen traditionellen Tracht kombiniert.

Den kontrastreichen Gegenpol zu diesen Reisen bildet meine Lehrtätigkeit am Design and Fashion Institute der Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai im Perlflußdelta – einem Zentrum der modernen chinesischen Textilproduktion – wo ich beauftragt war, jungen chinesischen Studierenden meine europäischen Fachkenntnisse und mein Verständnis von Modedesign näher zu bringen.

Ich werde Rohmaterial von der Reise zeigen (Fotos, Filme, mitgebrachte Textilien) und zusammen mit Julia Berg meine Entschlüsselungsversuche diskutieren.

http://sium.net/landsoutside

Regine Steenbock founded her Fashion Label Sium in 2000. She has a background as an artist, worked as a filmmaker from 1982-1994 and became involved in fashion as a professional career in 1995.

Her collections have been shown in Berlin, Paris and Tokyo and she directed a Sium store in Hamburg 2002-2016 and another in Berlin from 2009-2013.

After several teaching activities, such like in South Africa/ Johannesburg in 2014, or as visiting professor at the Academy of Art, Berlin Weissensee in 2005, she is teaching fashion design at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai (China) since 2016.

It was during those stays in China that she became increasingly involved into ethnographical studies on the clothings and textiles of the Chinese Minorities. Excerpts of the research material collected over there will be discussed with the ethnologist and sinologist Julia Berg within the scope of HYPER CULTURAL PASSENGER now.

.(Regine Steenbock´s approach to fashion is influenced by an artistic and anthropological view on color, form and the human body. Intercultural influences in arts and designs have always been subjects of research and an important inspiration for her work. By creating garments, which are conceptually explorative but yet tailored for everyday suitability her main intention is to reflect on elemental artistic and philosophical questions directly in a „real life situation“.

This ethos might be partly attributed to her former background as a filmmaker as her “fictive documentaries” on love or on plastic surgery dealt intensely with the imperative aspects of the human condition. )

 


Julia Berg
is a freelance filmmaker and writer. She received her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (UK). Before, she studied documentary and fictionfilm direction at the Film Academy Beijing (P.R.China); Social Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the University of Hamburg and Visual Communication at HfbK Hamburg (Germany).

She has researched, written and co-directed several documentaries for television (arte, ZDF, etc) and completed an internship at the ARD-Studio in Beijing. A main focus lies on China, as she speaks fluently Chinese and has long term fieldwork and ethnographic film production experience there.

Julia Berg is a lecturer for Ethnographic Film and Video at Universität Bremen, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg.

http://www.juliaberg.de