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Thanks to a decolonial questioning of Western aesthetic hierarchies, and a continued feminist attention to female-connoted forms of craft, textile has enjoyed a renewed interest in the field of visual art. Recent theoretical turns towards materiality have also played a part in valorising it. This stands in marked contrast to how the modern institution of ‘fine art’ barely tolerated weaving, and other forms of textile and textile art. In this way, several interlaced topics are at stake: 1) A new art historical reception of textile 2) The inclusion of textile in curating across biennials and art museums 3) Textile in contemporary artistic practice and practice-based research. The invited speakers in ‘Bobbing and Weaving’ are artists, historians and curators who present their ongoing work and research. Some of the questions that the symposium will deal with include the following: What does (the question of) a national artistic canon look like from the perspective of textile? - considering how for instance weaving was involved in nation building during modernism, and at the same time is understood to be both local and trans-cultural. What theories and practices can be proposed for textile’s deep and varied reach into contemporary mediality and subject positioning, from digitality to fashion? According to Julia Bryan-Wilson, “textiles live at the edges of crises, often creating conflicts or tensions as much as assuaging them.” (Fray, 2017). What critical, imaginary, etc. dimensions might be added to, or beyond, what Bryan-Wilson in this way terms “textile politics”? ‘Bobbing and Weaving’ is convened by Lars Bang Larsen, Head of Art & Research at AHC (Art Hub Copenhagen), in the context of a research project on Charlotte Johannesson, hosted by Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at Aarhus University and supported by Ny Carlsberg Foundation.