Weaving Memory and Unweaving Trauma: Textile Narratives on the Conflict in Colombia

The study looks at the construction of active and collective Memory, relational aesthetics and ontologies, and the creation of objects as the production and reinstallation of identities. It analyses several ‘narr’actions’ based on a study of the ‘textimonial’ productions (including weaving) of diverse collectives organised in different regions of Colombia. Interviews with the weavers involved in these projects are also included. Its objective is to look for cases of "textimonio" as artefact and heritage; colonial narrative practices; non-normative use of narrative practices; non-disciplinary aesthetics and sensographic writings. The study explores artistic and narrative forms that function in the construction of social bonds of affectation and empathy, the production of desire and the invention of ways of doing and living that contribute to a radical transformation of the present.