Rewind-Play-Fast Forward

Abstract

This book-chapter examines the works of Ainsley Hillard (UK), Christy Matson (USA), Jane Harris (UK), Barbara Layne (Canada), Janis Jefferies (UK) and Nancy Tilbury (UK) as they as framed by future-facing paradigms of textiles and technologies seeking to incorporate sound and interaction into otherwise visual registers. The writing is subdivided into sections on ephemerality, temporality, transitoriness and fast-forwarding to reflect the future-oriented aesthetic. This book accompanied an exhibition of the same name that I curated at Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania (the city’s main gallery). This exhibition comprised five installed works to showcase audio/visual textiles which use new materials and technologies