THREADS - Sensing Connections, Weaving Relationships

THREADS Exhibition at KG17 – Historic Hydroelectric Power Plant, Kirchgasse 17, 6020 Innsbruck/Mühlau May 9–10, 1–7 p.m.: Open Studio/Workcamp, Performance, and Workshops May 28, 7:00 PM Opening of the THREADS exhibition, talks, and dialect performance by Isabel Pscheider May 31 – October 4 Exhibition open Sundays 4:00 – 7:00 PM October 8, 7:00 PM Closing event for the THREADS exhibition: Lecture by textile designer Barbro Scholz (Hamburg) and performance by Max Weishoff (Munich) The THREADS project is dedicated to the former Mühlau power plant as a place, a conceptual framework, and a resonant space. Its starting point is the site’s industrial past, which will be reinterpreted in 2026 through the lens of textile structures and ways of thinking. The project “picks up the thread” to explore the structural aspects of textiles across media—toward new forms of interconnectedness and place-making. A key focus is on the artistic-theoretical exploration of the fabric in the sense of networking and relationships. Students in the field of new media draw upon, among other things, queer-feminist perspectives inspired by thinkers such as Donna Haraway and Kae Tempest, and examine networks of relationships, friendships, and the visibility of female and male actors in the history of textile work. Philosophical and literary references become threads that are spun further into video, installation, (dialect) poetry, and AI applications—visitors are invited to become part of this fabric themselves. The sculpture department is developing a collective, site-specific work that, as an intersectional spinning process between production, materiality, and architecture, draws threads and makes transitions visible. With students from the [Academy of Fine Arts] Innsbruck, in cooperation with the Mozarteum University