Event Details
'Cacerolazo / Women banging their pots', by Felicia. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
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| Podcast : | Memory in Textiles, the travelling of ideas and practices: a conversation with Roberta Bacic |
| Description: | This podcast was commissioned by the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, at the School of Modern Languages,University of Bristol, as part of a weekly podcast series. It is available specifically for Year 4 students taking the undergraduate unit “Memory and Political Violence in Latin America” and interested in Memory in Textiles. In the recording, facilitated by Unit Director Dr. Goya Wilson Vásquez, guest speaker Roberta Bacic discusses her knowledge and experience as collector and curator of the Conflict Textiles collection.
In addition to accessing the podcast, students were asked to explore the Conflict Textiles website and discuss their impressions on the travelling of memory practices and ideas, as well as the particular differences of textiles practices in relation to other practices in the memories of violence field.
In the ensuing student seminar, four textiles were selected from the Conflict Textiles collection to illustrate the breadth of issues and themes depicted:
11th September, 1973, Santiago de Chile - registering and bearing witness to violence.
Cacerolazo / Women banging their pots - documenting women’s protests to resist violence.
Al Servicio de la vida / Servicing life - practices of solidarity and action in the face of violence.
Paz - Justicia - Libertad / Peace - Justice - Freedom - representing their dreams and expectations for the future.
The podcast interview was conducted in Spanish to give students the possibility of engaging with the textiles.in the language of their creation. It is available on request in MP4 format for research purposes only. For further information contact Dr. Goya Wilson Vásquez.
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| Commissioned by: | School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol. |
| Date(s): | 12th March 2021 - 19th March 2021 |
| Venue: | Memory & Political Violence in Latin America unit, University of Bristol (online)
University of Bristol, UK |
| Curator: | Goya Wilson Vásquez and Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Dr. Goya Wilson Vásquez |
| Outcome: | Through this podcast and background research students were particularly impressed with the collection and the textile work travelling through different countries and connecting histories of violence. They discussed this and explored the difference between exchange and appropriation of practices. They were also impressed by the practice of textiles in itself, the meditative aspect in the making of textiles, the intimacy of the process, and the resulting materiality of memory in textiles. It also led to an exploration of how memory in textiles can occupy and intervene public spaces. |
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