Texts
Often, parts of Åsa Dybwad Norman's projects are accompanied by text work, either in the form of an essay or as a reflective text. In the text archive below, you can read some of the texts.
The Vessel 9, Make Me See
2025
Editors: Åsa Dybwad Norman and Ben Lignel, in collaboration with student editors Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Carla Rotenberg, and Iliana Papadimitriou.
Featured essays: Evelina Hedin and Sara Clugage
Short-form texts: by Nordic art school students Anna-Maria Saar, Daniel Schiechl, Hana Rehorčíková, Iliana Papadimitriou, Jenny Hamrell, Maike Panz, Martine Aadne Gulliksen, Samira Khoshbakht, Sara Marie Hødnebø, Sofie Alm Nordsveen, Sorrell Van Allen and Zoë Robertson.
Illustrations: Fanny Schwarz.
Published by: Norwegian Crafts.
Support from: Nordic Culture Fond, Nordic Culture Point, Estrid Ericssons Stiftelse and Göteborgs Slöjdförening.
The Vessel 9, Make Me See celebrates the art of noticing and describing craft in action.
Det förgängliga är helt okej
The ephemeral is just fine2024
Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman
Editor: Kira Carpelan
Graphic form: Lina Forsgren
Text written in relation to the textile artist Margaretha Eriksson Abeniu’s practice. Commissioned by Patrick Kretschek, Konstfrämjandet Västmanland.
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When Roots Burn
2024
Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Curatorial statement written for the group exhibition När rötter bränns (When Roots Burn) at Textilmuseet i Borås (The Swedish Museum of Textiles).
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2022
Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman
Editor: Helena Scragg
The essay Modershjärtat (The Mother’s heart) was published in the exhibition catalog for the Anna Sjödahl retrospective All denna jävla lycka! (All this fucking happiness!) at Norrköpings Konstmuseum 2022.
Mjuka bevis #1
Soft Evidence #12022
Graphic form: Matilda Kenttä
Text: Ida Säll
On-going fanzine project, this issue is an interview by Ida Säll with Åsa Dybwad Norman on memories and textiles as a witness.
2021
Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Article (Chapter 20) with Frida Hållander in Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers 1800-2021, edited by Malin Nilsson, Indrani Mazumdar and Silke Neunsinger. Brill Series: Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 45
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Fabriksflickor - De viljefulla textilarbetarna Factory Girls - The wilful textile workers2020
Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Graphic form: Hanna Stenman
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Bombyx Mori, well fitted for women?
2017
Text: Åsa Dybwad Norman
Essay on the experience of working with silk and the materials industrial history, written in relation to the project Bombyx Mori, well fitted for women?
Öxabäck IF, utan er ingen morgondagÖxabäck IF, without you, no tomorrow
2016
Text: Frida Hållander and Åsa Dybwad Norman
Graphic form: Sara Kaaman
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