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Chinesisches Gewebe – Chinese Weave

A visual essay on Chinese fashion and the textile industry and the people who wear them. With a foreword by Barbara Vinken 

19,99 50,00 


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.

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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.

Regine Steenbock

Regine Steenbock is an artist and fashion designer and as such oscillates between free and applied art, between artistic research and design (film, fashion, photography). In all her areas of activity, she is concerned with capturing the »conditio humana« (human condition) as it is reflected in everyday life. In 2001, she founded her fashion label Sium (sium.net/) with which she ran her own shops in Hamburg and Berlin until 2015. Inspired by her teaching activities in non-European cultural circles (most recently from 2016–18 at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, China), Regine Steenbock has been involved in ethnological fashion research as an artist and fashion designer since 2016 (sium.net/landsoutside). Chinese Weave was on show as an exhibition at Galerie M29 in Cologne in autumn 2019. Regine Steenbock lives and works mainly in Hamburg.

Concept and photography: Regine Steenbock
Text: Regine Steenbock, Barbara Vinken
Editing: Roberta Schneider, Nora Sdun
Translation: Brian Currid
Proofreading: Gustav Mechlenburg (DE), Lucy Powell (EN)
Design: Christoph Steinegger, Interkool
Design e-book: Janine Sack, Camila Coutinho
German / English
240 pages, 365 illustrations, 13 videos (25 min)
ibooks (615 MB)
September 2020
ISBN 978-3-947295-44-9
19,99 Euro

Bundle (book and e-book):
German / English
344 pages
Softcover with dust jacket and fabric application
50,00 Euro

Published as a book by: textem.de
ISBN: 978-3-86485-236-7
40,00 Euro

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