angry textiles

Veranstaltungsart

Atelierprojekt Atelierprojekt kurz Exkursion Fachpraxis Fachpraxis kurz Fachpraxis Werkstatt Workshop-Woche – Atelierprojekt kurz Workshop-Woche – Fachpraxis Workshop-Woche kurz

ECTS

Leistungskontrolle

Referat/Hausarbeit/Klausur, Vorlage und Präsentation von Arbeitsergebnissen, Vorlage und Präsentation von Projektergebnissen

Beschreibung

Atelierprojekt Angry Textiles from April to July with Aliz Farkas (artist, lecturer)

Textile art is often associated with fragility, softness, and warmth — elements that evoke safety, tactile comfort, and the meditative rhythm of handcrafts, where a needle’s prick brings flowers to life. However, the core of our project lies not in the beauty of the textile object itself but in the narrative it conveys, focusing on the weight and gravity of the material rather than its lightness. The title Angry Textile encapsulates the perspective shared by the selected works, where the creators give voice to various forms of anger — emotions that, according to societal expectations, are often silenced or suppressed.

Aliz Farkas (artist, lecturer) angry textile - fohno

Creating textiles, as Catherine Dormor highlights in A Philosophy of Textile, can itself be a form of resistance. Knitting, crocheting, and embroidery have long served as ways to express dissent, disrupt routines, and challenge the status quo — their power lies in the sense of community they generate.
In this course, our focus will be on how students can engage in art research. We will explore various topics in the field of critical textile-based art, such as art historical perspectives, politically engaged art, feminist and queer viewpoints. Students will also receive guidance on how to incorporate these concepts into their own work, with discussions on the distinctions between quotation, homage, reflection, and appropriation.

Craft as an Act of Resistance: The Empowering Role of Community
Exploring the transformative potential of craft as a form of resistance, with a focus on collective power and community-driven practices.

Defining Anger: Emotion or Action?
Fran Lebowitz: “Anger is I have no power, but I am filled with opinions.”

Women, Textiles, Art: Hobby or High Art
Examining the intersection of gender, textile arts, and their place within the broader art world, questioning the boundaries between craftsmanship, creativity, and artistic value.

Uniforms and Fashion: Heterotopia, Dystopia, and Utopia
Investigating the relationship between uniforms and fashion in the context of societal structures, exploring themes of heterotopia, dystopian and utopian visions.

Machines and Textiles: The Intersection of Theory and Practice
Analyzing the evolving relationship between machine technology and textile production, with a focus on both theoretical frameworks and practical applications.

Organic Structures: More-than-Human Perspectives
Delving into the concept of organic structures through a more-than-human lens, considering ecological and non-human factors in design and construction.

Aliz Farkas Curriculum Vitae

Studies

2024– ELTE Doctoral School of Philosophy, Art History PhD
2022–2024 ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Art History MA
2016–2022 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Painting MA
2012–2016 Tömörkény István High School and Art School, Graphic Arts

Projects (as artist)

2025 May This Feeling Resist the Present (group exhibition, curated by Gyöngyvirág Agócs, Bura Gallery, Budapest)

2024 Room of Ananda (Open Studios - Work in Slow Motion, Cité internationale des arts, Paris)

2024 Garden of Venus (group exhibition, curated by Zita Sárvári, Apollo Gallery, Budapest)

2024 (ongoing) FOHNO (concept, experimental textile project, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Völklingen, Paris, Budapest, Brussels)

2024 Uchrony (group exhibition, Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest) 2023 Just don’t let them know, what I was made from (solo exhibition, curated by

Anna Zsoldos, Art9, Budapest)
2022 Best of Diploma+ (best diploma works, exhibition, Profil Gallery, Budapest)

2021 I sleep by the light of flames (solo exhibition, publication debut, curated by Tamás Buddha, Panni Marosi, Dinghi, Budapest)

2020 Self-purification – Light, Colour, Dark (solo exhibition, curated by Réka Nemere, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Epreskert, Kálvária, Budapest)
Budapest, Hungary +36209140696 farkasaliza@gmail.com
2018-2020 Alterego Foundation for Families (art education workshops in residential care home for children and family transition homes)

Projects (as curator / art historian)

2024 Dharma Workshop (collaborative project with artists and orientalists, concept, organisation, Hopp Ferenc Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest)

2024 Land of Buddhas | Gandhara. Indo-Greek sculptures of the Ferenc Hopp Museum (preparation of the digital content of the exhibition, exhibition texts, Hopp Ferenc Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest)

2024 For Me Paper is Just a Material (group exhibition, curator, Inštitút Liszta Bratislava)

2023 Béla Lajta 150 – The Fate of Buildings (data entry of photo collection, identification of buildings, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest)

2023 I Found Myself Within a Forest Dark (curator, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest)

2022 Memory/Space. Re-arrangement of the Miklós Borsos Collection (team project of the ELTE Institute of Art History, led by Emese Révész PhD)

Membership

Studio of Young Artists Association

Scholarship, residency programme

2025 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, residency

2024 Cité internationale des arts, Paris, residency (organised by the Budapest Gallery)

2024 Erasmus+, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken 2021–2022 New National Excellence Programme (artistic research)

Publications (as author)
Kicsi nékünk ez a ház. A népi jelképek és a kortárs képzőművészet összefüggései 1970 körül. ÚjMűvészet, 2025(1), 58–61.

Etnográfia és „a művész tekintete”. Interjú Frazon Zsófiával és Wilhelm Gáborral, a Néprajzi Múzeum muzeológusaival. Balkon, 2024(6), 36–49.

Definíciók nélkül. Szelley Lellé kiállításáról. ÚjMűvészet, 2024, 12, 13.
Nehezen mérhető értékek. Interjú három művésztanárral. Kontur Magazine, 2024,

February 20.
Ťažko merateľné hodnoty. Rozhovor s trojicou umelcov-pedagógov. Kontur

Magazine, 2024, February 20.
{trag}stanište. Exhibition catalog, Savremena Galerija, Subotica, 2023.

A kaptár kerete. Méhek mint művészek, művészek mint méhészek. Prae, 2023, May 22.

Publications (about her)

Peilian, Li (2025). Following the ants: Conversation with Aliz Farkas. In Peilian Li, Stay alive! Notes from a bad student (pp. 142-143). Pro Helvetica.

Kocsis, Katica (2024, October 3). Beléptünk Venus kertjébe, és a nőiség ezer arca nézett vissza ránk. Kultúra.hu.

Balajthy, Boglárka (2023, September 9). Meg ne tudják, miből lettem. ÚjMűvészet. Buddha, Tamás (Ed.) (2023). Dinghi. Project catalog.
Martincsák, Kata (2021, August 20). Egyszer volt a Vénusz. Képző Online Folyóirat.