# Thread Routes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thread_Routes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thread_Routes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_Routes > Source revision: 1299357986 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = Thread Routes | image = Thread_Routes_02.jpg | alt = | caption = Kimsooja, Thread Routes – Chapter I, film still, 2010 | director = [Kimsooja](/source/Kimsooja) | producer = Kimsooja Studio | cinematography = Immanuel Hick | runtime = 16-25 minutes | country = United States | language = multiple | budget = | gross = }} '''''Thread Routes''''' is a 16mm film series by artist [Kimsooja](/source/Kimsooja). Divided into six chapters, ''Thread Routes'' takes place in six different cultural zones around the world. The artist considers her approach to this film as a 'visual poem' and a 'visual anthropology', in that it juxtaposes and presents structural similarities in performative elements of textile culture with the structures in nature, architecture, agriculture and gender relationships in different cultures.{{cite web |url=http://www.heartmus.dk/kimsooja-3472.aspx |title=Artists |accessdate=2015-07-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226023659/http://www.heartmus.dk/kimsooja-3472.aspx |archivedate=26 February 2015 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.biaci.org/en/kim-sooja/|title = Cultura, Ciéncia y Arte Contemporáneo en el mundo}} These non-descriptive and unnarrative documentary films were conceived after being inspired in [Bruges](/source/Bruges), Belgium, in 2002, by the performative elements of traditional [lace making](/source/Bobbin_lace), and the city's architectural structure. The first chapter, completed in 2010, explores [Peru](/source/Peru)vian weaving culture, and its tight alignment with its landscapes and historic archeological structures. This piece journeys throughout the country, from the Sacred Valley around [Cusco](/source/Cusco) and [Machu Picchu](/source/Machu_Picchu) to the Taquila Island villages, forming a non-linear timeline of the connection between people and their geographical environment.{{cite web |url=http://broadstrokes.org/2014/09/09/artist-spotlight-kimsoojas-threads-of-culture-and-landscape/ |title=Artist Spotlight: Kimsooja's Threads of Culture {{!}} Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts' Blog |website=broadstrokes.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911003328/http://broadstrokes.org/2014/09/09/artist-spotlight-kimsoojas-threads-of-culture-and-landscape/ |archive-date=2014-09-11}}Mello, Laeticia, "The Pilgrimage of Our Own existence"- Arte Al Limite, Published by Arte Al Limite ltd. March 2012, pp 30-38 Chapter II, which finished filming in the summer of 2011, focused on European lace making actions such as bobbin lace-making from Bruges (Belgium), [Lepoglava](/source/Lepoglava) and [Pag](/source/Pag_(town)) (Croatia); industrial lace-making in [Calais](/source/Calais) (France); needle point lace-making by nuns in a monastery in [Hvar](/source/Hvar) (Croatia) who use threads from dry [aloe](/source/aloe_vera) leaves; and traditional needlepoint on the small island of [Burano](/source/Burano) (Italy). These scenes are set against representative European architecture such as the [Milan Cathedral](/source/Milan_Cathedral); the [Eiffel Tower](/source/Eiffel_Tower) in [Paris](/source/Paris); and the [Sedlec Ossuary](/source/Sedlec_Ossuary) in [Kutná Hora](/source/Kutn%C3%A1_Hora) (Czech Republic), which is decorated by human bones and skulls. Local vegetation and flowers overlap with scenes from [Alhambra](/source/Alhambra) in [Granada](/source/Granada) (Spain) which, in its detailed and complex decorative Islamic architectural forms, conveys a spatial sensibility and a spiritual dimension that is mirrored in lace-making. The bold, masculine, and power-oriented monumental architectural forms are revealed as similar acts to the delicate, feminine, and ephemeral textile making. The third chapter (2012) journeys to [India](/source/India) and studies the traditions of dyeing, sewing, weaving, embroidery, tattoo and woodblock printing; juxtaposing them with the archeological structures and temporary housing structures of the nomadic communities in [Gujara](/source/Gujara), as well as the Step Well and the Sun Temple in [Ahmedabad](/source/Ahmedabad). In 2014, [Kimsooja](/source/Kimsooja) filmed Chapter IV in China, where she encountered the specific weaving, dyeing and garment culture of the [Miao minority](/source/Miao_people) in the [Guizhou](/source/Guizhou), [Hainan](/source/Hainan) and [Yunnan](/source/Yunnan) provinces. These are depicted alongside elaborate silver adornment and paper making, as well as the ancient local housing structures in [Fujian](/source/Fujian), the rice terraces of [Yunnan](/source/Yunnan) and the landscapes of [Guizhou](/source/Guizhou) and [Hainan](/source/Hainan).{{Cite web|url=http://guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/exhibitions/kimsooja-thread-routes/|title=Kimsooja: Thread Routes | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao}} Shot in 2015 in New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, ''Thread Routes – Chapter V'' explores [native American](/source/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States) textile culture and the landscape inhabited by the various groups visited. In early 2019 the last chapter was shot in Morocco. The first three chapters were presented at [Guggenheim Bilbao](/source/Guggenheim_Bilbao) between March and July 2015.{{Cite web|url=http://guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/exhibitions/kimsooja-thread-routes/|title=Kimsooja: Thread Routes | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * http://guggenheim-bilbao.es/en/exhibitions/kimsooja-thread-routes/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20150226023659/http://www.heartmus.dk/kimsooja-3472.aspx * http://nmwa.org/events/conversation-piece-thread-routes%E2%80%94chapter-1 Category:Performances Category:Video art Category:Korean art Category:Textiles --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Thread Routes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_Routes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_Routes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.