Soft Protection, Textiles in War, 2016 Performance based storytelling and dialogue project: Soft Protection, - textiles in war By Katrine Meisfjord in cooperation with Hiwet Tesfaldet, Evin and Savas Boyraz The performance consists of two parts, a performance or happening, and a conversation with the audience. In the performance two women share their own stories about how they experienced years of fighting for their people’s rights and independence as guerrilla fighters. During the performance the audience is seated around an open space where the meeting between the two women is played out. After the performance we arrange a dialogue event with the audience, because we are curious to know which experience they have with freedom fighting, feminism and the use of textiles. The main aims of the project are • To bring people together across difference, and make them share experiences and stories. Together with the institution where we exhibit, we make an effort to get a mixed audience. • Listen to female soldier`s stories about war, which are seldom told. Deep into the stories also lies the struggle to be equal to men, both in combat and in government. • The stories are told through the use of textiles. Textiles as a material serves well to make people share their own stories, because it is a material tightly connected to our lives.