About Artificial Silk – artificialsilk.org

We bring talented people together (wherever they are).

– writing, visuals, performance, text, sound, movement –

Photograph of the young writer Devasiachan Benny. He is signing an exObjects book at Bangalore Literature Festival, December 2024. Two young women smile as they watch. — Writer Devasiachan Benny signs an exObjects book at Bangalore Literature Festival, December 2024

We encourage new things to happen.

Keep a lookout for new England-India collaborations in 2025.

Photograph of a necklace of sewn mimusops elengi blossoms, yellow against a green background — Photograph of sewn mimusops elengi blossoms, copyright Theresa Benny

We began making exObjects in 2022

A family courtyard in northern India, copyright Sauma Afreen

Of worlds we built in the light of night skies
Of dreams I am yet to dream
Of moments we are yet to live

Read about exObjects here

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Multimedia performances

‘The Typing Man’ story was adapted for an experience with graphics and composed sound at the Bluecoat in Liverpool. Read about our creative team.

A.T. Boyle story, set in Istanbul, was shortlisted from over 2,000 entries in the Mslexia awards. Alison played the narrator in the immersive drama.

Look inside. Buy a copy of the eBook

The Typing Man by [A. T. Boyle, Gül Turner]

Buy a limited edition book printed in Cumbria in Northern England and featuring original illustrations. Email: exObjects2022 @ gmail.com

Gül Turner translated the story. Here she is with two young creative letter writers for ‘The Typing Man and the Turkish’ Woman community events.

– Community projects exhibition, audio, making

‘Ban the Ban on Barmaids!’ protest, perambulation and devised performance, a political theatre comedy in Northern England.

Part of the Women in Comedy festival whose director Hazel O’Keefe won a Power Women Award in 2017.

Community projects

22,571 visitors of all ages took part in ‘Colours, Community & Chemistry’ at the People’s History Museum in Northwest England.

Artificial silk is a textile too. From the eve of the Second World War this transformative textile was made in the northwest of England in a huge factory where workers from all continents worked side by side. Filaments of silk from the cellulose in wood were twisted together and woven into clothes, war-time parachutes, sanitary wear including pads, items for hospitals, and many other forms. M&S used artificial silk for their popular nighties. Artificial silk was exported all over the world.

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