Podcast series
This podcast is recorded as part of the TEX-KR research project. Over successive episodes, dress historian Magali An Berthon connects with actors of Cambodian textile heritage in and outside Cambodia. They are textile conservators in Cambodia’s key institutions, archivists and librarians, and contemporary artists engaging with Cambodian culture, all sharing their stories and discussing their work in relation to textiles and cultural preservation.
KHO Chenda, textile conservator at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
KHO Chenda is a conservator at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is in charge of metal and textile conservation, dealing in particular with the numerous textile and clothing remains found on the former prison site in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime.
This interview is in Khmer - the official and national language of Cambodia. To view an English transcript of the interview as you listen click here.
Prof. Eva Andersson Strand, Director of the Centre for Textile Research
Eva Andersson Strand is the co-founder of the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen and its director since 2017. She specialises in ancient textile crafts and production processes and their significance for understanding the cultural and economic aspects of past societies. Her research focuses especially on the Viking Age in Scandinavia and the Bronze Age around the Aegean Sea.
This recording is the opening address of the The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance exhibition opening event dating from February 22, 2024. It centres around the importance of preserving textile crafts and the artisans sustaining them around the world. Transcript.
Dr Magali An Berthon, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, curator of The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance
This recording is taken from the opening of the exhibition The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance on February 22, 2024. Berthon offers an introduction to the exhibition’s main themes: historical and archival research into Cambodia’s textile cultural heritage, learning the complexity of ikat weaving, and exploring art as a response to destruction and displacement. Transcript.
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Recordings from the workshop CONFLICT: Archives, Collections, and Heritage – 25 March 2024
Listen in as we explore how how intangible and tangible forms of cultural heritage, archives, and museum collections are affected in conflict and post-conflict times. The following recordings stem from the different sessions of the hybrid research workshop CONFLICT: Archives, Collections, and Heritage.
This event was organised by Dr Magali An Berthon in collaboration with CTR in March 25, 2024 at the University of Copenhagen South Campus, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dr Magali An Berthon, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, event coordinator
Prof. Ashley Thompson, Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art SOAS University of London
Keynote On Decoloniality and Restitution in Cambodia Today.
Prof. Ashley Thompson is Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London. She maintains a sustained research focus on pre-modern Cambodian arts and literature and complements this with more punctual work on the contemporary period and the arts of the larger Southeast Asian region.
Art Collections in Jeopardy: Looted art, Safeguarding, and Restitution
Chaired by Prof. Vinnie Nørskov, School of Culture and Society, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University.
Panelists in order:
Sophie Biard, Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO, UMR5062-CNRS), Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Associate Researcher.
Terne Thorsen, PhD fellow in Modern Culture, Institute of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen, PhD in Critical Heritage Studies, University of Copenhagen, Secretary in the Danish Committee of the Blue Shield.
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Textiles and Archives
Panelists in order:
SENG Sonetra, Lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Researcher/Conservator at Memot Centre for Archaeology, PhD Candidate, SOAS, University London.
Magali An Berthon, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen.
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Re-imagining Histories of Conflict: Art and craft practices as catalysts.
For this session, OUM Sophea, SOK Linda and FONKi, the three guest artists of the exhibition The Art of Ikat: A Cambodian Renaissance (22 Feb – 31 May 2024) are joined by Dr. Magali An Berthon for a conversation on their textile practices in relations to their Cambodian heritage.
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