Event Details
INCORE staff at the exhibition 'Textile Accounts of Conflicts' as part of their International Conference 'Accounts of the Conflict: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding'. (Photo: Eoin Kelly) |
| Exhibition and conference: | Textile Accounts of Conflicts. An exhibition of textiles and associated memorabilia, as part of the International Conference Accounts of the Conflict: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding, hosted by INCORE, Ulster University |
| Description: | The "Textile Accounts of Conflicts" exhibition, specially commissioned for the "Accounts of the Conflict" International Conference, features first hand testimony in textile form of women’s lived experience of conflict in various corners of the globe.
The collection is drawn from Northern Ireland, England, Spain, Chile, Peru,Argentina, Afghanistan, Palestine, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Canada and Colombia.
Web links:
INCORE - Textile Accounts of Conflicts
Photographs
Photographs
Forum for Cities in Transition
Video interview with Roberta Bacic at the conference exhibition |
| Commissioned by: | Ulster University, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) |
| Date(s): | 17th November 2014 - 18th November 2014 |
| Venue: | Holiday Inn, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic, curator. Breege Doherty, assistant curator |
| Facilitator: | Accounts of the Conflict project based at INCORE, University of Ulster. |
| Outcome: | This exhibition, located at the centre of a conference on Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding, demonstrated the power of textiles to narrate stories of conflict and human rights abuses and further formalised their ability to denounce and bear witness to events when the spoken word is inadequate.
Ten textile pieces from Northern Ireland, focusing on the Troubles, are now catalogued in Accounts of the Conflict, a digital archive of personal accounts of the conflict, based in Ulster University.
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