Workshop with Jakkai Siributr — with a poetry reading
by Erlend O. Nødtvedt
Textile Industry Museum, Salhus
Sunday, 26.October
13:00-15:00
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As a former knitting factory that operated between 1859–1989, the Textile Industry Museum holds over a century of industrial history.
As part of across, with, nearby, it hosts artist Jakkai Siributr’s ongoing textile project There’s no Place (2020–ongoing). Its elements of embroidery and displacement resonate with the site’s layered histories of labour, material, and care, also on a neighbourly level.
For over a century, the factory’s workers and their families lived in the surrounding area, shaping the lives of many generations of neighbours.
Today, the museum preserves historical machinery and workspaces to trace production processes from raw fibre to finished product, and also explores the legacy of local history through stories of an industrial past.
Jakkai Siributr’s project There’s no Place (2020–ongoing) began at a refugee camp at a border between Thailand and Myanmar where people from stateless Shan communities were invited to share their life experiences through embroidery. Siributr’s long-running textile project speaks to the impact of nation-states and colonialism on indigenous groups and comprises textile banners.
Jakkai Siributr’s workshops continue today at Textile Industry Museum Salhus from 13:00 to 15:00, as part of which there is a poetry reading with Erlend O. Nødtvedt, a celebrated poet and novelist.
Jakkai Siributr (b. 1969, Bangkok) works with textiles to explore the connections between tradition and modernity. His embroidered installations reflect on themes of violence, religious symbolism, migration, identity, and personal memory. His studio works with artisans from Phayao Province in northern Thailand and supports the local community. Siributr also currently works with the Shan Youth Organization in Northern Thailand. He lives and works in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
Erlend O. Nødtvedt (b. 1984, Bergen) is a poet and novelist. He debuted with the poetry collection Harudes in 2008. His most recent publications are the novel Mordet på Henrik Ibsen (The murder of Henrik Ibsen, 2021) and the poetry collection Olav Nygards seng (Olav Nygard's bed, 2023). Nødtvedt's writing has a distinctive energetic, wild and evocative form that has brought something new to Norwegian poetry. He has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships.