FMT co-founder Eric Dunlap creates facade projection for the spinning-mill as a part of the artMUSE festival. The event takes place on July 16-17 in Bocholt, Germany. The factory is now an extension of the LWL-Museum of Industrial Culture.

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The old spinning mill, which is currently under reconstruction, will open its doors for two summer days, the artMUSE Festival in Bolcholt. artMUSE is the very first event taking place at the almost renovated spinning mill. Therefore the curatorial concept is strongly based on the venue’s atmosphere and its future role in forming the culture of Bocholt and the region. The spinning mill was the witness of industrial revolution, the flourish of textile industry; it was abandoned as the postindustrial and digital revolution made it economically inefficient and finally useless. The artist invited to artMUSE Festival are all reflecting on this phenomena, the changes brought by digital revolution in the society , the industry culture and the region’s everyday life. The invited artists using the tools of new media, basically digital equipment to evoke different segments of the above mentioned historical and present issues. Furthermore the artworks are “woven through” with references to textile.

The LWL-Museum of Industrial Culture with its eight houses in Westfalen-Lippe in Northwest Germany is focusing on the region’s historical and present industrial culture. As the first and biggest museum of its kind in Germany it preserves and documents the working environment by the remained industrial buildings, technical equipment and everyday life artifacts. The museum also provides a forum for culture, creativity and innovation. As an expansion of the consisting Textile Museum in Bocholt, the old Spinning Mill will provide exhibitions, panel discussions and presentations on history, present and future of textile as well as the art and culture of textile. Through music and many other cultural events exciting networks will be created to form a multi coloured fabric – a forum for the history of Textile.

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