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 I am further interested to generate contexts for creative re-enactments and playful re-interpretation of those resilient practices in our contemporary context, through workshops bringing together elderly and kids/teenagers. I would love to see in these temporarly constitued collectives gathered around this shared practices ‘emerging community of resilient cultural workers’. I wish hereby to activate and investigate ways for intergenerational transfert of knowledge, skills and imaginaries, and see how active forms of relating to the past can contribute to a ‘theory of cultural Resilience’, seen as a challenge to rethink the invention of the cultural and the political.  I am further interested to generate contexts for creative re-enactments and playful re-interpretation of those resilient practices in our contemporary context, through workshops bringing together elderly and kids/teenagers. I would love to see in these temporarly constitued collectives gathered around this shared practices ‘emerging community of resilient cultural workers’. I wish hereby to activate and investigate ways for intergenerational transfert of knowledge, skills and imaginaries, and see how active forms of relating to the past can contribute to a ‘theory of cultural Resilience’, seen as a challenge to rethink the invention of the cultural and the political. 
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-- **History**, in a Microhistory approach (‘search for large answers in small places’), also Altagsgeschichte (history from ‘below’)+- **History**, according to a Microhistory approach (‘search for large answers in small places’), also Altagsgeschichte (history from ‘below’)
  
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhistory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhistory
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 http://www.osea-cite.org/history/exp_ethnography.php http://www.osea-cite.org/history/exp_ethnography.php
  
-- Experimental ethnography locates the value of the anthropological intervention, however, not in the teleology of the objectified results (e.g., social change, policy/political action, or cultural revitalization), but in the process and, thus, valorizes the actual dynamics of fieldwork as the primary locus where the “real-world” relevance and significance are to be measured, evaluated, and appreciated. »+- Experimental Ethnography locates the value of the anthropological intervention, however, not in the teleology of the objectified results (e.g., social change, policy/political action, or cultural revitalization), but in the process and, thus, valorizes the actual dynamics of fieldwork as the primary locus where the “real-world” relevance and significance are to be measured, evaluated, and appreciated. »
  
 -Fieldwork practices are being “recombined” to explore their utility in the recirculation of given knowledge in a relevant manner by the very activity of the exploratory bricolage. -Fieldwork practices are being “recombined” to explore their utility in the recirculation of given knowledge in a relevant manner by the very activity of the exploratory bricolage.
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 -Bricolage of fieldwork in which concepts, methods, techniques from various fields of art (scenography, museumography, art installation, performance arts) are recombined with the inherited methodologies of anthropology. -Bricolage of fieldwork in which concepts, methods, techniques from various fields of art (scenography, museumography, art installation, performance arts) are recombined with the inherited methodologies of anthropology.
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-°Anthropology of tranmission  / Generational Anthropology**+°Anthropology of Transmission  / Generational Anthropology**
  
 Transmission is a topic of crucial importance for anthropologists. However few are the studies which make transmission their focal point, a subject for and in itself. In this paper I show how cases of transmission haunt the very foundations of our discipline and how they lie at the back of such notions as memory, re-invention and continuity. I conclude by asking how we can study ethnographically the fleeting reality that is the act of transmission. David Berliner – Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains. Transmission is a topic of crucial importance for anthropologists. However few are the studies which make transmission their focal point, a subject for and in itself. In this paper I show how cases of transmission haunt the very foundations of our discipline and how they lie at the back of such notions as memory, re-invention and continuity. I conclude by asking how we can study ethnographically the fleeting reality that is the act of transmission. David Berliner – Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains.
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-° Anthropology of cloth+° Anthropology of cloth / Costume History
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 Out of my desire to collect stories from the past as precious fabrics…. Out of my desire to collect stories from the past as precious fabrics….
  
-The most important thing that my journey through textile conservation brought me is a deepening of the understanding of the ethical dimension of my practice, throughout the whole process of the fieldwork (from the encounter to the collecting of the story - of the constitution of a living archive of stories - to the transmission of the past story and their transformation by younger generations)   +The most important thing that my journey through textile conservation brought me is a deepening of the understanding of the ethical dimension of my practice, throughout the whole process of the fieldwork (from the encounter to the collecting of the story - of the constitution of a living archive of stories - to the transmission of the past story and their transformation by younger generations)
  
  
-                    Some Notes on my personal methodological approach: +METHODOLOGY / EXPERIENTIAL PART : (in construction)
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-For ‘Débrouillardise et Coquetterie’ I want to hybridize my ‘ethnographical – encounter’ practice with tools from textile conservation. +- Phenomenology of the encounter (cf fieldwork)
  
-At the core of my ethnographical practice lies LISTENING to the other, as a receiving and a taking care of its story. Hosting the story in my dilated present.+- Assessment of the relational complexity induced by the dynamics of the gift/countergift. (cf fieldwork, the giving/receiving of the stories from the past)
  
-Somewhere in between ethics and Sensoriality/Sensuality.+- Design spaces/conditions/games to foster creative engagements with the Past, as part of a Living History, (through artisanal textile workshops for older and younger generations, re enacting and reinterpreting DIY text practices from WWII)  -- intergenerational dramaturges
  
-Textile is for me intimately related to touching, I like touching with closed eyes. Feeling softness, rugosity, holes, threads. 
  
-As listening with the closed eyes is every time again a beautiful and deep sensorial experience.+[[Some Notes : on my way of hybridizing ethnography with the ethics of textile conservation|Some Notes : on my way of hybridizing ethnography with the ethics of textile conservation]]
  
-Receiving the voices of my interviewees as a precious gift, enjoying soft, slow, fast, textured voices.+PROCESS
  
-Textile pieces and threads came up as ‘CONCRETE’ METAPHORS for the sensations i like to focus on when I interview and listen. 
  
-Deepening the experience of touching a textile, learning the words, concepts and parameters used to analyze a piece of cloth would allows to receive more complex insights in the textures of voices given to me during the process, by analogy-thinking.+1. DOCUMENTING the research topic
  
-Textile conservation came up as the most complete approach to analyze textile in depth, its fascinating multidisciplinarity : in between chemistry , biology, art history, craft…A lifelong learning process…+Fields of interests :
  
-If the operating concepts of textile conservation seduced me to apply them on the sensorial level of the voices of my interviewees, it now interest me in the context of D&C to apply them on the story as such. On the very words of the story to be preserved, on how the words are sewen together in sentences, on the narrative structure of the story as a whole.+**Débrouillardise**
  
-Textile conservation also attrackts me as a discipline:+ Shortages – rationing– interlace of recyclage and DIY blossoming from bellow / impulsed from above (governmental decrees), as vehiculated by fashion magazines, advertisments, fashion magazines, tips from red cross and women syndicate magazines.
  
-Because it is a lived, bodily practice to focus on minutiae – as this focus is also central to my practice of ethnography.+Repertory of  
 +- Governmental decrees / rationing tickets 
 +-civil societies reactions : from patriotic adhesion to the expression of complaints, black market, smuggling with rationnong tickets, or finding strategies to circumvent the regulations  
 +- punishments in case of contravening the regulations on clothes (procès verbaux)
  
-The infinite pleasure I have of focussing on « little » things, I am curious to apply them through textile conservation exercices. 
  
-« Little » things are disscrete and apparently insignificant thruths, that I search for in my ethnographical explorations. ;+**Coquetterie**
  
 +dignity – history of the bodies that is sensitive to a memory of emotions and affect (from proudness to shame, the hiding of precariousness) – costume as overstatement/overacting – choregraphies of the body (costume landscapes) – polarization of ideology – class – gender representation – manipulation of the women body through dressing.
  
-Values of the conservator that I admire: +** 
--Sticking to the concrete +Resilience**
--Taking utmost care of the piece you are in charge of +
--Humility in the presence of the object +
--Respect of the integrity of the object +
--Develop a deep affinity with the object +
--Commitment to extremely slow processes +
--Accept that after the short moment of excitement you will commit to a long time of routine tasks, you will be bored.  +
--Minutiae /Precision of craftmanship. +
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-The textile conservator is constantly involved in finding out all kind of strategies : conservation is about inventing ways of handling difficult objects. Your ability to handle difficult situation in everyday life will help you a lot, they say in the guide for textile conservation!   +
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-I became more and more curious to apply metaphorically the tools for conserving pieces of cloth on micro-narratives from the past. +
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-FINDINGS: +
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-The Nature of the piece of textile is of fundamental influence on what can be at best done to preserve it. This rules inspires me ver much… but which words to define the nature of a story ?+
  
-Tex Conservation nations that are ‘operative’ or applying them on ‘narratives’ :+Moral, social and cultural resilience
  
-Texture of the piece of cloth : its fabric and structure. +serie of attitudes for protection (textile as a protective skin) and as potential for creativity comme potentialité créatrice (DIY creativity) , 
  
-Characteristics : +development of capacities allowing for the psychic transformation of human suffering : in the playfull act of recycling/transforming clothes we find healing strategies for psyche through body dignity and ‘coquetterie’.  
-Loose patterns Zig Zag Patterns +  
-Unevenness in tension +Humour is said to be an important strategy for resilience, a lot of textile practices struck me by their ‘drôlerie’.
-Missing parts +
-Schilferend +
-Scheuren +
-Extreme cases of total fragmentation+
  
-Qualities: 
-Extensibility 
-Elastic limit 
-Flexibility 
-Density 
  
 +1.1. consultation of specialized literature, articles and archives
  
-Folds +1.2. consultation of experts: 
  
 +**Irène Guenther** 
 +– Specialist in modern German cultural and gender history
 +http://www.uh.edu/honors/about/faculty-staff/irene-guenther.php
 +ivguenth@central.uh.edu
 +« Nazi ‘Chic’? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich »
 +current research on the trench postcard art of German soldiers
  
-Size – weight – complexity+**Jonathan Walford** 
 +Founder and Curatorial Director of Fashion History Museum of Canada, Writer 
 +http://www.kickshawproductions.com/ 
 +wrote « Fourties Fashion, from Siren Suits to the New Look », 2011 
 +http://www.thamesandhudson.com/9780500288979.html
  
 +**Dominique Veillon**
  
-Fragile zones +« La mode sous l’occupation », 1990, éditions Payot. 
 +http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/spip.php%3Farticle174&lang=fr.html 
 +"Vivre et survivre en France 1939 - 1947", ed Payot, 1995 
 +interesting review: http://clio.revues.org/535?&id=535
  
 +Hannelore Vandebroek, Nel de Mûelenaere, and Carmen Van Praet
 +cf ETUDE :
 +http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/rech_encours_fr.php?article=1301
  
-How much repair needed ? +Le travail des femmes dans la fabrique d'uniformes E. Reitz à Merksem, 1940-1944
-How much alteration has bien carried out ?+
  
 +Cette recherche analyse le travail des femmes dans l'industrie de guerre allemande en Belgique. La participation et l'intégration forcée de la femme belge dans l'industrie de guerre allemande pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale est un thème peu connu dans la mémoire collective. Pour combler cette lacune, Hannelore Vandebroek a, en 2007, entamé une recherche au CEGES qui sonde les expériences de travail des femmes qui ont travaillé pour l'occupant allemand. Elle se focalise principalement sur les femmes qui ont travaillé en Allemagne. En complément,  des recherches sont effectuées depuis novembre 2009 par Nel de Mûelenaere, puis par Carmen Van Praet sur le travail des femmes en Belgique même. Ces recherches ont lieu sur base du cas des ouvrières de la fabrique d'uniformes E. Reitz à Merksem.
  
-The irreductible individuality of the story. 
  
 +side note 1 on 1.1
  
 +contacted Documentation Centers in Brussels
  
-Actions / Performatives: +- Algemeen Rijksarchief: Magazines, Archief van Winterhulp (umbrella organization that was  responsible for provisioning mainly of food and coals, but also of textiles. This material is not filed, data are very administrative./It can also be interested to consult the christian archives in Flanders. And KAV (christian syndicalist movement for women))
  
--cleaning  (I don’t like the ideo of ‘cleaning’ a story though) +-Archief en Museum voor het Vlaamse Leven in Brussel (online archive)/recommend to look also at Archives from the KVS (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg)
  
--sewing (steunweefsel naaien) : the stories I collect from elderly spontenously receives ‘steunweefsels’ from helping people surrounding, for example from other pensionees, or from their children that actively support them in the process of remembering,reactivating by details the flow of the story, filling the holes, proposing corrections or other interpretations, raising questions, identifying contaminations from remebrances from other epochs (fusion of timelines).+- Brussels Museum voor Arbeid en Industrie ‘La Fonderie’ 
 +mainly about the end of the 19th, beginning of the XXth century. There would be a gap in documentation of the second world war period, they start to have a good documentation from the fifties on. Maybe they have info on the industrial inventories. 
  
--To raise the piece of cloth/ to raise the story +My research questions : what was the industrial production level of textile material and where was it requisitionned to (Front de l’Est ?) ; what about labour conditions and entering of the women as workers in the factories, how did the work impacted on women dressing (more practical, introduction of the trouser) do they have propaganda material about women work? 
--To cover the piece of cloth/ To cover the story +
--Framing, positioning the piece of cloth/ the story +
--Unroll the cloth/ the story+
  
-Pinning : involves making holes, or having marks that tends to remain+-CINEMATEK 
 +access@cinematek.be
  
-Transfer to other contexts : the fragile condition of the story that is being displaced+Filmmaterial will be accessible, there are pictures but they are not filed at all so it will be quasy impossible to consult them
  
-Unprotected condition of the released object/story+Of interest : belgian film production during occupation, document the dressing in documentary films versus fictions, cinematographic advertisment and actualities. What about the ‘costumières’, ‘accessoiristes’ status working on the filmsets and their access to materials ? / same question for the costumières of the Monnaie Opera.
  
 +Interesting reading : « Henri Storck, le cinéma belge et l'Occupation», Benvindo Bruno, Collection Histoire , Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2010http://www.ulb.ac.be/oratio/notegen?f_context=unibooks&noteid=500&style=&f_type=view&data-file=bib1
  
-What does this displacement of concept from the conrete realm of the cloth pieces to the immaterial realm of the words and narratives mean to me, and what does they mean to you ?+-MJB Musée Juif de Belgique
  
-IN TEX CONSERVATIONS AND IN MY ETHNOGRAHICAL ENDEAVOURS, WE BOTH WORK WITH OBJECTS/STORIES AT RISK.+-Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis 
 +information about the requisitioning of the materials from the army, and more important : how textiles from the army was on its turn used, transformed or costumized for DIY casual clothing. Does the museum has a collection of parachutes from the english?
  
-At risk of dissapearing.+-Musée National de la Résistance 
 +interesting material : double pockets that were sewen to transport weapons. 
 +The museum does not have examples of it, but can try to put me in contact with people then involved in Resistance who did such a textile practices.
  
-Decaying is part of their very essence.+-CEGESOMA,  
 +does have a research center for WW II 
 +http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/index_fr.php
  
-The responsability of our disciplines is to slow down these built in process of decay.+[[Sidenotes historical readings WII - Tex - Resilience|Sidenotes historical readings WII - Tex - Resilience]]
  
  
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