Regine Steenbock – EECLECTIC https://eeclectic.de/en/autorinnen/regine-steenbock/ Digital Publishing for Visual Culture Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:31:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://eeclectic.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-EE-blau-signet-32x32.png Regine Steenbock – EECLECTIC https://eeclectic.de/en/autorinnen/regine-steenbock/ 32 32 Chinesisches Gewebe Edition https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt/chinesisches-gewebe-edition/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:21:36 +0000 https://eeclectic.de/?post_type=product&p=8011 Editionen aus der Reihe Chinese Weave – einem visueller Essay zu chinesischer Mode und Textilindustrie und den Menschen, die sie tragen

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]]> Chinese Weave is a photography book by Regine Steenbock, an artist and fashion designer who engages in research. We follow her gaze on a country that in the so-called West is permanently present as a myth, a politically dubious player, and an economic threat. At the same time, China seems unfamiliar and difficult to decipher. In around 350 pictures, aspects of the textile culture and business world are shown, just as they are found in everyday life.

For thirteen months, Regine Steenbock  wandered her way through textile mass production for the world market in the Pearl River delta and discovered, in startingly coexistence, the highly elaborated traditional textile culture and contemporary fashion of the Miao and other Chinese minority groups 1300 kilometers inward in Guizhou. Mythological treatment of the past encounters a hopeful faith in progress; politics controlled from afar encounters local anarchy.

Organized in thematic chapters, this publication presents the essence of an extensive archive of visual material created between 2016 and 2018, complemented by commentaries expanding the specific contexts. The e-book also includes twelve brief videos.

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]]> Chinesisches Gewebe – Chinese Weave https://eeclectic.de/en/produkt/chinesisches-gewebe-chinese/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:27:47 +0000 https://eeclectic.de/?post_type=product&p=7786 A visual essay on Chinese fashion and the textile industry and the people who wear them. With a foreword by Barbara Vinken 

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]]> Chinese Weave is a photography book by the travelling and researching artist and fashion designer Regine Steenbock. We follow her gaze into a country that is permanently present in the so-called West as a myth, political dubiousness and economic threat. At the same time, China seems unfamiliar and difficult to decipher. In about 350 pictures, different aspects of the textile culture and economy are shown, just as they are found in the everyday reality of life.

Regine Steenbock spent over thirteen months in southern China for this visual and textile research trip, roaming through the textile mass production for the world market in the Pearl River Delta and discovering the highly elaborated traditional textile culture and the contemporary fashion of the Miao and other Chinese minority groups in an astonishing coexistence 1300 km further inland, in Guizhou. Mythological coming to terms with the past meets hopeful belief in progress, remote-controlled politics meets local anarchy

Divided into thematic chapters, this publication presents an essence of the extensive image archive created between 2016–18, supplemented by commentaries expanding the specific contexts, diary entries and a foreword by Barbara Vinken.

The e-book contains additional image galleries, an interactive map and over 25 minutes of video material.

The publishers:
EECLECTIC (Berlin) and Textem (Hamburg) have been accompanying and supporting the publication project since 2018. Their complementary skills make Chinese Weave a publication that is available as an e-book almost anywhere in the world at the click of a button and can be held in tangible physicality as a print version.

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