In this guest post, Giovanna DI Mauro reflects in her use of political and conflict textiles as part of teaching a course on "Building Peace Through the Arts", and on her students' discussion about textiles and politics.
“Every stitch is another step that helps, and it’s a change.” Read more about embroidery and post-war reconciliation in this short case study, which describes the aims, method and findings of a project that used needlework to study the subjectivities of former FARC combatants in the process of reincorporation into civilian society in Colombia.
In this timely guest post, Katharina Krause shares her reflections on the social meanings of the hand-sewn protective mask during the global 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Read more here...
Enjoy Christine Andrä's pick of inspiring political textiles! Inspiring, soothing, amazing.
Listen to and read HUMAN THREADS, a poem by award-winning Northern Irish playwright, poet and film-maker Damian Gorman about the power of the needle in defying power.
pen, thread and cloth combined transform into a language that surpasses words." Read the powerful last part of the blog series by Andrea Liu here...
In this guest post, Andrea Liu presents the second part of her reflections on embroidery as a form of mending during and after war and political violence. Read more...
In this guest post, Andrea Liu continues her exploration of the needle as the pen. This time, she focuses on the notion of mending. Read more...
En este video, Beatriz Arias presenta los resultados parciales de la investigación "(Des)tejiendo miradas sobre los sujetos en proceso de reconciliación en Colombia", cuyo foco es la salud mental colectiva, el reconocimiento y el reencuentro entre excombatientes de las FARC y las comunidades rurales de acogida en algunas zonas de Antioquia.
In this guest post, Andrea Liu explores militarised violence and civilian resistance in the contexts of the dictatorships in Argentina and Chile in the 1970s and 80s. Another powerful read. See more here...
