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Rehearsing Experience: Learning from Labor Processes

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Enacting Experience: Learning from Labor Processes presents two workshops and a conversation on present and historical perspectives on the textile industry, production, labour, working conditions, environmental impacts, and colonial legacies.

The program features workshops and conversations with Vivien Tauchmann, İzel Karaca, Frida Hållander, and Åsa Dybwad Norman, introduction and moderation by Eylül Şenses and Magnus Ericson.

People in demonstration in a street

Photo: Johan Österholm

Go-slow action for a sustainable textile industry, Sveavägen (Stockholm), October 3, 2020

The program focuses on everyday factory practices and stories through workers’ embodied and social experiences across two distinct historical and geographical contexts. Expanding on the relationship between production, the body, and space explored in the current Salt exhibition No Admittance Except on Business, it features the workshops Out of the Gears by Vivien Tauchman and with İzel Karaca, and Factory Girls by Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman. These are followed by presentations introducing their respective practices and a conversation moderated by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.

Read more about the event the full programme on Salt website

Enacting Experience: Learning from Labor Processes is a collaboration between IASPIS and Salt and curated by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses. The event is organised as part of Practice Matters, a project exploring design, craft, architecture, and spatial practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts.

Åsa Dybwad Norman is a textile artist and Senior Lecturer in Textile Art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Based in Arvika, Sweden, she explores how the knowledge of the hand and body manifests in contemporary society, often examining historical spaces and events through archival research, interviews, and artistic processes. Her practice is characterized by an interest in the movement of textile materials across time and place, with a focus on their subversive potential. Since 2024, she has been collaborating with curator and maker Benjamin Lignel on See Me Make, Make Me See, an ongoing transnational project to develop a toolbox for looking, talking, and writing about contemporary craft.

Frida Hållander is an artist, researcher, and educator at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a researcher in Textile Heritage (2025–2030), an artistic research project at Konstfack funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project aims to build knowledge about the historical and contemporary role of textiles, make textile experiences visible, and establish a research environment that contributes to the knowledge exchange between institutions and with the surrounding community. She is also part of the artistic project Mould of Stories (2026-2028), examining a large collection of plaster moulds from the Upsala-Ekeby ceramic factory founded in 1886. The project asks how industrial histories persist materially and how the residues of past production continue to shape relationships between human bodies and their environments.

İzel Karaca is a researcher, writer, and editor bridging the fields of sociology, art, and critical theory. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, examining performance art through the lens of postcolonial theory and critical readings of Turkey’s sociopolitical environment.

Vivien Tauchmann is an independent designer, movement artist, educator, and researcher investigating sociopolitical relations through embodied approaches. Working at the intersection of relational design, performative arts, and somatic pedagogies, her practice seeks to confront aspects of human-made infrastructures and subvert processes that sustain power dynamics and injustice. She collaborates with grassroots initiatives and a diverse range of cultural spaces. Since 2015, she has been active as an organizer and campaigner in the international labour rights network of Clean Clothes Campaign Turkey.

Magnus Ericson is Head of Applied Arts, IASPIS, Eylül Şenses is a programmer at Salt.