Teresa Lanceta
Teresa Lanceta
Teresa Lanceta is an artist, art historian, researcher, and teacher. In this conversation, the sense of touch reclaims space from the gaze. At the same time, we recover the wisdom of weaving in terms of community, as an open source code for those who know and perform it. And through this repetitive, necessary gesture, technique becomes form, and form becomes language. Thus the margins disappear and give way to rhombuses, torn bits, darning, mending... depending on what’s going on at that moment in time.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments from our conversation with the artist, art historian, researcher, and educator Teresa Lanceta. We delve into her research on Las cigarreras, which documents and focuses on the forms of organization, solidarity, and care among the women workers in the tobacco industry in Spain in the early 20th century. We also share her relationship with the collector Bert Flint, the (for her) impossible bridge to pre-Columbian textiles, and her way of understanding and carrying out co-authorships.
We talk about working at different frequencies at the same time, as well as the importance of play, fiction, unproductive time, and the procedural— a "making in the process," in Teresa's words— as generative spaces for both artistic research and educational and mediation practices. We focus especially on her passion for collage and the potentials that emerge from that space: the openness to new meanings, the use of remnants, and the possibility of involving the body and materials in the conversation.