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Unacknowledged Voices: Arts & Crafts as Political Knowledge Archives
The workshop, organised in conjunction with the Stitched Voices exhibition, addresses the question of how arts and crafts can contribute to our understanding of (international) politics, and a range of distinguished and highly interesting guests will present on their academic and/or political work on/with textiles and murals. This workshop will be of interest to PPi members; PPi was a collaborator of the exhibition.
AGENDA
Friday 12 May 2017
Location: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Gallery 1
11:00 – 13:00: Exhibition tour & conversations with Roberta Bacic (Conflict Textiles curator)
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch break
Location: International Politics, Main Hall
14:00 – 14:15: Welcome & introduction to the workshop
14:15 – 15:45: “Unacknowledged voices I: textiles & murals”
Karen Nickell (Ulster University): “Conflict Textiles”
Bill Rolston (Ulster University): “From Conflict to Conflict Transformation – the Murals of Northern Ireland“
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee/tea break
16:00 – 18:00 Textile workshop: “100 Years of International Politics: Planning/making a centenary arpillera”, with Becky Knight (artist, Aberystwyth)
Saturday 13 May 2017
Location: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Gallery 1
11:00 – 12:30 “Unacknowledged voices II: more textiles”
Lorna Dillon (University of London): “Textile Art, Collective Memory and the Holistic Approach to Transitional Justice”
Heidi Drahota (Nürnberg, maker of “Landmines”)
Janet Wilkinson (Liverpool, co-maker of “The People Make the City”)
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 “Exile – solidarity – protest: textiles as speaking politics”
Jimena Pardo (involved in the making & political use of “We are seeds”)
Apolo Santana, Pedro Fuentes (Chile40Years –stories of arpilleras from North Wales)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/tea break
15:30 – 17:00 Discussion: “How can arts and crafts contribute to our understanding of politics?” Chair: Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth University)
Image credit: Digital Death (detail), Deborah Stockdale, 2014, Photo D.S. © Deborah Stockdale collection
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