Colectivo de Palabreo presents “Interwoven Narratives”, a participatory and interdisciplinary online “palabreo” that brings to light the interconnectedness among creative practices linked with today’s global agenda. The featured panelists are Piedad Aguilar, Juan Pablo Aschner, Ana Gutierrez, Zayaan Khan and Arcenio Moya.
The event will be divided into two sessions and will include a conversation (Palabreo) with a guest moderator at the end of each session. During the intermission of each day’s session, we will showcase a hands-on demonstration led by two skilled weavers. They will guide us on a voyage to our origins and the intrinsic bond we share with craftsmanship and creation.
This event shatters the boundaries of a traditional conference setup and the formality of screens by establishing transnational connections through a non-structured process called “palabreo”.
Panelists
Zayaan Khan (Seed Bibliotek) Cape Town: As an artist,consultant, researcher, and food transformer, Zayaan’s work finds a resting place through food as a means of understanding the world, particularly seed, land, and our collective heritage.
Ana Maria Gutierrez (ORGANIZMO) Colombia: She discovered the power of action and community building, giving rise to Organizmo - a research center focused on regeneration and the exchange of intercultural knowledge.
Juan Pablo Aschner (Facultad de Creación) Bogota: Architect and dean of Facultad de Creacion at Universidad del Rosario, Bogota. He integrated transmedia design, as well as the incorporation of methodological and thematic resources used in social sciences, and humanities.
Arcenio Moya (Facultad de Creación) Bogota: Pioneering the idea that a master craftsman holds the same rank as any other educator, as a master craftsman of the Wounaan People he carries within him the territorial trajectories of the Chocó jungle, the rivers, and the Pacific coast.
Piedad Aguilar (BAT Textile Arte Biennale) Chile: Textile researcher, and director of Textile Arte Biennale of Chile, and Fiber Art at Universidad Catolica. She focuses on textile experimentation with her rug studio AWNW.
Andrei Fernandez (Textiles Semilla & Silät Wichi) Argentina: Curator and independent researcher, cultural manager. Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (UNT), with studies in Social and Political Anthropology (FLACSO). She supports artists who reflect on identity and authorship. She has initiated intercultural projects that bring together artists, artisans, and activists.
Feel free to join in and interact by weaving, crocheting or making during the “Palabreo” sessions.
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Session 1 - Wednesday 27th, 9am - 11am EST
Zayaan Khan (Seed Biblioteek), South Africa
Ana Gutierrez (ORGANIZMO), Colombia
Andrei Fernandez (Textiles Semilla & Silät Wichi), Argentina
We are a transdisciplinary collective of applied research founded in 2022 by Lina Celis,, Elisa Lutteral, Rubén Goméz, and León Duval. We work with the traces, renderings, representations, and relationships derived from Latinx culture in different global contexts, aiming to comprehend, expose, and communicate their impacts and extents through engagement actions among individuals, collectives, humans, more-than-humans, and communities, facilitated by the act of "palabreo" (oral communication).
In this regard, we understand "palabreo" not in its pejorative connotation stemming from the Western and colonizing world of the Americas, but rather from its American and pre-Hispanic significance, as an oral and performative means of transmitting knowledge and worldview.