Oloop In Theory: What Does It Remember?

A participatory event for all those who have attended any of Oloop's workshops, actions, or projects in the past and wish to share their memories, stories, and insights with us.

Through a guided creative process, we will explore together what the body, hands, heart, and mind remember. Why have certain images, experiences, and feelings stayed with us all these years, and how might they have reflected or even changed our lives?

Memories of shared creations with the Oloop collective are being collected in three ways during the exhibition: you can send them to us via email, write/draw them in the memory book when you visit the exhibition, or by participating in the event.

We would like to publish the collected memories, feelings, anecdotes, and experiences in the exhibition catalog, which will be released in the fall of 2024. Your statements will also become part of a study that will compile all the statements and examine the effects of years of community and participatory textile creation. The study will be presented in the program of the Biennial of Textile Art BIEN 2025.

About mentors:

Jasmina Ferček (Oloop collective) is a textile artist and holds a master's degree in art therapy. Through conversations with women, she explores the significance of their creative experiences with textiles. She has been working in the field of participatory and psycho-socially supportive textile art for 20 years within the Oloop collective. She researched the impact of textile creation on women's well-being and health in her master's thesis, and in 2022, she wrote a book on the subject titled "The Power of Textiles."

Zala Orel holds a Master's degree in Communication Studies and is a doctoral candidate in Social Geography and Regional Development at Charles University in Prague. Since 2014, she has been responsible for the artistic vision and development of cultural programs at Zavod Carnica and Layer House. In 2019, she founded BIEN, the Biennial of Textile Art, which takes place in Kranj, Škofja Loka, Jesenice, and Nova Gorica. BIEN is becoming a central platform for presenting contemporary textile art and a space for exploring the social impacts of textile creation.

The event is free of charge; however, registration is recommended for easier coordination.

The O2OOP exhibition and accompanying events were created in co-production with the Rog Center and the Biennial of Textile Art BIEN (Zavod Carnica) and with financial support from the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) and the ACF Program (in Slovenia 2014-2021).