FeralFabric2022

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Volume 7
Nature

We invited some of our favorite artists to write about the intersections between nature and culture as they appear in textile and fiber art. From diaspora and home to queer possibility and resilience amidst disaster, the writers within this issue highlight unexpected possibilities and tender moments.

Support for Feral Fabric Journal Volume 07 is provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program

Maximalism

Volume six rethinks the conditions and radical applications of Maximalism as seen through clothing, textile, and fiber arts. Featuring special guest editors Sienna Freeman and Forrest McGarvey, and the work of artists, writers, and drag performers Kochina Rude and Vivvyanne Forevermore, Jackie Andrews, LiLi K. Bright, Liz Collins, and Kico Le Strange.

Labor

The work aspects of art have been mystified and alienated from their association with work. In this moment of reckoning for labor rights, we address the function of art within the larger labor movement and the fact of labor within art.

The Body

One of the more invisible casualties of the pandemic has been embodied experience. For this issue of the Feral Fabric Journal we contemplate the forgotten experiences of all that is corporeal, haptic, and visceral. From plant time to crip time, contributors consider the roles, regulations, and impressions made by bodies of the past and proposals for the future.

Language

Systems of language create the structures of understanding. They are the vehicles in which we share ideas, and they enable us to relate to one another. But these systems are not inherently neutral. In this issue we will explore the role language plays in creating meaning and identity – how it facilitates grief, humor.

New Utopias

Sci-fi, Fashion, and Imperfection / The Fábrica in Two Realities / Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure / Police Uniforms Celestial and Terrestrial / A Manifesto for a Less Toxic Tomorrow

Debut Issue

Coded Neckwear in Modern Democracy / Radical Moms and Fabric newspapers / Tibetan Weaving in Exile/ Southern Quilting as Economic Empowerment / 70s Excess in the Art of Bill Bowers / Covid Facemasks

Vol. 00

A collection of online essays we put out as we sifted through our interests on the path to understanding what our project was really about.

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