The Art Pluriverse: A Community Science Series on intangible cultural heritage, art and open knowledge, has presented its 1st edition in December 2020 with a month-long online programme of collective actions, focusing on textile communities and their artistic heritage in the Balkan region.

Find below all the links to the programme:

 

Art Pluriverse I webpage: https://bowb.org/art-pluriverse-i/ 

Curatorial text: https://bowb.org/art-pluriverse-curatorial-text/

Open calls: https://bowb.org/open-calls-2020/

Programme: https://bowb.org/programme-2020/

Press release: https://bowb.org/press

Download visual identity (digital images): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders

 

 

  The 3D Art Pluriverse Space: https://hubs.mozilla.com/BfbAp8Q/bowb-meeting-space/

  Map of Textile Communities and GLAMs: https://www.google.com/maps/Textile map

  Open-access Zine Publication: https://doi.org/10.12681/pluriverse.68

 

 

Participating communities:

  Crimean Tatar Community

  Roma Community Office of Aliveri

  Rizarios Crafting School

  Progressive Union of Xanthi

  SEN Heritage Looms

  Di Moullieri

 

 

Participating artists:

  Maria Juliana Byck

  Konstantinos Gkarametsis

  Mina Kouvara

  Inês Neto dos Santos

  Maria Varela

 

 

Participating researchers:

  NGO ALEM (Esma Adzhiieva & Vlada Fomina)

  Eleonora Geortsiaki

  Victoria Manganiello

  Cecilia Palmér

  Kirila Cvetkovska

 

Invited tutors and courses as Open Educational Resources:

 

Manvi Seth
ICH documentation and community engagement (PDF presentation)

 

 

Brigitte Vézina
Open licenses for ICH (PDF presentation)

 

 

Konstantinos Stampoulis
Wikimedia – Wikidata (PDF presentation)

 

 

Nikos Voyiatzis
History of community archives & digital folklore (video)

 

 

Simone da Silva
Omeka S (video)

 

 

Puspita Ayu Permatasari
Batik mobile application (video walkthrough)

 

 

Susanna Ånäs
Wikidocumentaries (video walkthrough)

 

 

 

 The creative process and artworks created by the Artist-Community Synergies:

Maria Juliana Byck – Roma Community Office of Aliveri
The potential of fashion to address social issues

 

Konstantinos Gkarametsis – Rizarios Crafting School of Monodendri
Traditional grids and patterns within physical and digital space

 

Mina Kouvara – Progressive Union of Xanthi (FEX)
Deep mapping of characteristic textiles, symbolisms and their people

 

Inês Neto dos Santos – SEN Heritage Looms
Connections between fermentation and textiles

 

Maria Varela – Di Moullieri (former Bezi Metsovo)
New collaborative textile based on traditional design synthesis

 

 

The community textile works documented in Wikimedia Commons by the participating researchers:

 

  Wikimedia Commons, Art Pluriverse