Talk

MAPS TALK:​ Taking Inventory: Frau Fiber’s Persistence against the global apparel industry

Through performance, research, archival materials, and socially engaged projects, lung explores garment labor, deindustrialization, global supply chains, and the politics of clothing while considering how sewing, repair, and collective action can become forms of resistance. Taking Inventory reflects on the evolution of Frau Fiber and asks what it means to persist in the face of global systems that often render labor invisible.

Carole Frances Lung (they/them) is an artist, organizer, scholar, educator, and arts administrator whose interdisciplinary practice explores labor, textiles, performance, and global systems of production. Drawing on nearly fifteen years in the apparel industry and a multigenerational family history of garment work, lung investigates the human cost of manufacturing through performance, publishing, installation, socially engaged art, and archival research. Their work imagines alternatives grounded in care, repair, mutual aid, and collective action while creating platforms for public engagement through educational programs, publications, and archival work. Central to their practice is Frau Fiber, a twenty-year performance persona examining labor history, globalization, and collective action, and the Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms (ILGWU), founded in 2013. lung holds degrees from North Dakota State University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned a PhD from the University of Sunderland, culminating in Frau Fiber's Mission (2026).

MAPS TALK is a public forum initiated by the Master’s Programme in Art and Public Space (MAPS), bringing together artists, researchers, students, and the public for critical dialogue and interdisciplinary exchange.

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