Textile Month Programme.
Online during December 3rd-23rd, 2020
Art Pluriverse: Textile Month in a glimpse!
Activities .
To be updated weekly. Stay tuned!
Research-based art creation online
Artist-Community Synergies
For: artists, communities & general public
5 artists cooperate online with 5 textile communities and co-create research-based artworks that explore the artistic heritage and cultural knowledge around textiles along contemporary art practices.
The public can follow up the artistic process online. Find more information about the selected artists, communities and their projects below.
Open GLAM online course
Creating FAIR Community Archives
For: GLAM enthusiasts, students, researchers, curators, archivists, educators and cultural professionals
5 researchers/research groups selected through the open calls will be attending the programme’s online course, learning to create FAIR community archives based on wiki-tools, Open GLAM practices and the FAIR principles.
Learn more about the selected researchers and invited tutors below.
VR public experience
Enter the 3D Art Pluriverse
For: everyone!
Throughout the event a VR art meeting space will be open and accessible to all, presented as a workshop in progress on weaving patterns and 3D modelling experimentation.
The workshop takes place within the framework of the academic course “Spatial Representation II”, at the School of Architecture in the University of Ioannina.
Writing jam
Open-access Zine Publication
For: Art Pluriverse participants and collaborators
The 1st Art Pluriverse Community Science Edition will be released post-event as an open-access zine publication. The programme includes a day of zine jam for exploring and sharing the documentary heritage of textile books, periodicals and ephemera, by the Athens Zine Bibliotheque.
The digital edition will be published by the National Documentation Centre.
5 artists & 5 communities
Artist-Community Synergies .
Co-creating research-based artworks
Maria Juliana Byck will collaborate
with the Roma Community Office of Aliveri,
expanding upon the themes of her recent work which explores the potential of fashion to address social issues.
Konstantinos Gkarametsis will collaborate
with the Rizarios Crafting School of Monodendri,
as a local artist who wishes to explore the possibilities of traditional grids and patterns within physical and digital space.
Mina Kouvara will collaborate
with the Progressive Union of Xanthi (FEX),
attempting a deep mapping of characteristic textiles, in order to explore the multiple layers of their natural and cultural environment, the making processes, their uses, symbolisms and people related to them.
Inês Neto dos Santos will collaborate
with the SEN Heritage Looms,
exploring connections between fermentation and textiles, by seeing the fermentation process as a signifier for community, collaboration and togetherness, and a means to express the importance of symbiosis.
Maria Varela will be working
with Bezi Metsovo,
re-examining Metsovo’s traditional textiles, in order to design a new collaborative textile based on traditional weaving techniques, traditional textile structure and traditional design synthesis.
5 researchers/research groups & 5 tutors
FAIR Community Archives .
An open GLAM online course
Selected participants:
The NGO “ALEM” (Esma Adzhiieva & Vlada Fomina), documenting the Crimean Tatar Community,
work on safeguarding practices for the Crimean Tatars’ ICH elements.
Kirila Cvetkovska, documenting the Rizarios Crafting School of Monodendri,
is an independent cultural practitioner from North Macedonia, who is interested in the concepts of collective memory,
loss and detachment, exploring cross-cultural values and their manifestation.
Eleonora Geortsiaki, documenting the Roma Community Office of Aliveri,
is a recent arts graduate, concentrating on the connection between nature and the human body, and the field of museum education.
Victoria Manganiello, documenting the SEN Heritage Looms,
is an artist, educator, producer and collaborator, adjunct professor at NYU and Parsons the New School.
Cecilia Palmér, documenting the Progressive Union of Xanthi (FEX),
is a designer and technologist, working between crafts, fashion, digital transformation and sustainable development.
Tutors:
Brigitte Vzina, Konstantinos Stampoulis, Manvi Seth, Nikos Voyiatzis, Simone da Silva, Puspita Ayu Permatasari, Susanna Ånäs
Partners .
