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This fragment is part of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" carpet.
Through the fragment we trace the journey of the fragment owners and their collabs as they explore, experiment and creatively advance socially relevant themes. Here is the fragment as we are sending it on this three and a half-year journey.
Follow this story to observe the transformations the fragment undergoes over the course of these years...
The journey begins...
...with Burkhart von Scheven from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Every Nations Yarns
For this video collage the fragment 34/100 of the 17th-century Caucasian dragon carpet has been fractionalized even further. 203 macroscopic photographs illustrate how knot by knot literally every color is represented within even this little section of the antique artwork and conserved over the centuries including all brutalities coming with them. These colors could always have been standing for the colors of the nations of this world and their peoples. Looking at it this way the Caucasian carpet always has been an ambassador for transregional participation and for bringing and holding mankind together no matter which heritage, nation or sex anyone belongs to. The white repair sections make the color code even more universal.
The letters in the video collage – once put together – quote the first three sentences of the preamble of the charter of the united nations. In which almost everything we should care for is said already.
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About the Project
The Museum for Islamic Art's project, #CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the future, celebrates the transformative power of cultural exchange and the shared threads that unite us all. All the things we love, have loved and will ever love come from cultural exchange, migration and diversity, or as we like to call it #CulturalxCollabs.
100 carpet fragments, cut from a replica of the iconic dragon carpet, will travel the world (delivered by DHL). The fragments will ignite #CulturalxCollabs with co-creators, inspiring human ingenuity, fostering community and ultimately demonstrating how cultural exchange enriches all our lives.
Follow #CulturalxCollabs on Instagram as the project unfolds...
...or learn more here
Weaving the Future
Join us on a journey with 100 carpet fragments as they travel around the world for three and a half years, finding temporary homes while bridging cultural boundaries, fostering worldwide community united by the power of human stories.
Fragment Journeys
100 carpet fragments part of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" project. Follow their journeys through the ever changing owners' over three and a half years.
Where is the Dragon?
The star of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" project is a so-called Caucasian dragon carpet from the 17th century. A dragon carpet - all well and good - but: where is the dragon?
