Event Details
'Hilvanando la busqueda / Stitching the search', by Nicole Drouilly. (Photo: Andrew Proctor) |
| Seminar: | The Search for the Disappeared: Personal Stories |
| Description: | This event is part of the ongoing Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared programme and also marks International Human Rights Day. It incorporates the launch of a new video interview with Nicole Drouilly by Professor Brandon Hamber, in which Nicole shares, in depth, her experiences of searching for her sister Jacqueline who was disappeared in Chile in 1974.
The interview is a follow up to the installation on 3rd December, of Nicole’s quilt Hilvanando la busqueda / Stitching the search, as part of the Conflict Textiles permanent rotating exhibition at the Magee Campus Library, Ulster University. (At this event a short video of her quilt was presented virtually to Nicole by Conflict Textiles to commemorate her sister Jacqueline’s 71st birthday).
Seminar format - 15:00 to 15:45 - Booking details
• Welcome by Roberta Bacic, (collector and curator of the Conflict Textiles collection)
• Input by Nicole Drouilly on her quilt and the ongoing struggle for justice for the disappeared in Chile and beyond. She will also present a textile book she made to mark her sister’s 71st birthday on 3rd December. (Nicole is a textile artist and human rights advocate who campaigns against impunity during the Pinochet dictatorship; member of Memoriaviva.com and "Memoria del Sur Oral History Project")
• Stitching the Search: Interview with Nicole Drouilly (1.15min) premiered at 15.45
Moderator: Professor Brandon Hamber, John Hume & Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster University.
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| Commissioned by: | Ulster University, Magee campus |
| Date(s): | 10th December 2020 - 10th December 2020 |
| Venue: | Online
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| Curator: | Roberta Bacic assisted by Breege Doherty |
| Facilitator: | Professor Brandon Hamber, John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace |
| Outcome: | In this interview, Nicole gives us an insight into her experiences of searching for her sister Jacqueline, husband and unborn child who were disappeared in Chile in 1974. Through the textile book presented to mark Jacqueline's 71st birthday we are invited to celebrate the entirety of Jacqueline's life and her achievements and to see her as more than a disappeared person whose human rights were denied. |
| Documents: |
• Seminar invitation/registration, 10th Dec. - view
• Photo gallery of quilt installation, 3rd Dec - view
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