Not Het Here explores the concept of a ‘textile heteroropia’ as introduced by T. Weddingen. In his essay ‘unfolding textile spaces’, T. Weddingen introduces the concept of a textile heterotopia in relation to a six-part series of 16th century tapestries entitled The Manorial Life, an autonomous place where the boundary between reality and fiction is gets blurred and the role of figures and viewers seem to switch role in the immersive experience. Not Yet Here is a continuation of the research on these spatial narratives within the textile medium. Completely constructed out of hand braided cord, the work is a radical choice for entanglement, a complex structure that goes against existing binary hierarchies as can be found for example in weavings. In braiding cord a current situation is brought under tension, from which a powerful tool to connect emerges. In a spirit of the times where hospitality and every form of otherness is put under pressure, anger and fear are intertwined into a receptive place. The studio space is an extension of the street that takes you into a state of becoming. “We must strive, in the face of the here and now’s totalizing rendering of reality, to think and feel a ‘then and there’. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.” Cruising Utopia, the then and there of queer futurity, José Esteban Munoz

This work was made possible by the residual material of KROKO nv BE.