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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 continues...
...with Sierrah Floyd
Thirty Days in the Life of an Ordinary American
Multimedia documentary, Various durations | 2026
30
Sierrah’s 30 is a multimedia documentary in conversation with the Caucasian Dragon Carpet which was interpreted in her 120 days with fragment #85 as one of the only pieces of cultural heritage and artistic expression after the Berlin bombings. As a response, she documents her daily life as an American by way of photos and videos in conversation with the carpet. These experiences are also impressed upon audio recording during that time. By way of the documentary she seeks to enmesh the mundanity of life, her economic status, family dynamics, and social ambiguity and how they impact her understanding of life and how to consider her identity in all that she is in Black, American, woman, poor life in her home countrya.
Sitting With Americans
Through interviews the artist discusses thoughts, ideas, memories, and feelings from Americans at this time in contemporary history to document the people who make up the daily success, failure, joy, love, desire, dreams of the United States. By allowing the interviews to flow as they would an informal conversation and Floyd utilizes the Caucasian Dragon Carpet to serve as conduit to produce a document of space, time, truth, and a testament to what is American, what are the thought processes, what are the possibilities of its appearance. Each participant after their talk was photographed which is then overlayed with a scan of carpet fragment #85.
Interview with Alex Vargas
Interview with Ashley Chapell
Interview with Austen Aquino
Interview with Amyna Love
Interview with Chelsea Emuakhagbon
Interview with Daryl Brown
Interview with Emily Melissa
Interview with Fabrizzio Suba
Interview with Milo S.
Interview with Laura Haldane
Interview with Natasha Moustashe
Interview with Sierra Jackson
Interview with Myrtle Martin & Don DeMarco
Interview with Srinidi Gopal
Interview with Xiomara Contrarez
...and on we go...
...with Ludwig Möller
The Flying Carpet
On Museum Night on 6 September 2025 in Kassel, around 3,000 visitors flocked to the Hugenottenhaus and the adjacent Hotel Hessenland. Moving School e.V. has been running programmes at the Hugenottenhaus since 2024. The exhibition ‘House of Walls’ showed works by various artists in rooms decorated with graffiti, photos, paintings and the AI-speaking Mona Lisa. In the garden and car park, there was a party with a DJ, food and drinks.
Everyone was also invited to design a flying carpet together and go on a journey with it. Carpet fragment #85 was the starting point. Many more fragments were made with leather, fabrics and glue and joined together to form a large flying carpet.
Ludwig Möller developed the concept. Khensani Mohlatlole from Johannesburg helped with the implementation. Children, young people and adults worked on the carpet late into the night and throughout the following weekend. They were inspired by the questions "Where would you like to travel to in the future with the flying carpet? What should this country of the future look like? How should people live together there? The strong, wonderful power of the mighty dragon flies with you on the carpet. How do you defeat evil in the world? Write a story or a fairy tale to go with your picture on the piece of carpet!"
Someone wrote: "I fly to a country where freedom, diversity and friendliness reign. A country where everyone lives by the maxim of only doing unto others as they would have done unto themselves. Natural boundaries are respected, allowing everyone to find happiness in their own way. Limited only by the freedom and boundaries of others. A country where violence is an ancient story from a bygone era."
The journey begins...
...with Jan-Hendrik Pelz
Jan-Hendrik Pelz painted his fragment #85 as an oil painting measuring 100 x 200 cm.
He proposes a performance project "PERFORMxCOLLABS".
The painting, lying on the floor, is intended to serve as a performance platform during the reopening of the "Museum for Islamic Art" in 2027, where artists or participants from other disciplines will have the opportunity to present a talk, a short reading, or a performance, etc., that has a thematic connection to the overall project.
The idea is to create an open "platform on the painting," with many possibilities and ideas: suggestions and extensions are welcome!
PERFORMxCOLLABS
In Cervia / Italy, the first sketches, suggestions and experiments for the design of the performance project ‘PERFORMxCOLLABS’ by Jan-Hendrik Pelz were created.
The photo of me holding the fragment was taken immediately after I received it.
The photo with the children was taken in Riva del Garda, Italy, when children asked me what the "little carpet" was all about.
Front and Back
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.
Creating a carpet
A 17th-century Caucasian carpet, burned by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War, serves as the model for a replica, woven in 2022 by a family in Rajasthan, India. Over 2.3 million knots later, it is being sent out into the world in 100 fragments. This is the story of how it came to be.
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?
