The Threads of Memory

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https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v1n2.32

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visual anthropology, knitting, memory, textile narratives, creative methodologies

Abstract

An exhibition entitled Tejer con el hilo de la memoria: puntadas de dignidad en medio de la guerra (Knitting the Threads of Memory: Stitches of Dignity, Surrounded by War) toured Mexico over the course of three months and presented work by a collective of Colombian knitters, all women who had survived experiences of armed conflict. Through knitting they have both recounted their stories and denounced the injustices and violence they have suffered. The show was presented to knitters’ groups in Mexico City and the states of Chiapas and Guerrero; there were concurrent knitting and memory workshops as well as an audiovisual presentation. El hilo de la memoria is a documentary that follows the show’s Mexico tour in a reflection on the links that are woven between collective creation, creativity and the transformative potential of the reality inside spaces we share for knitting and storytelling.

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Author Biography

  • Mariana Rivera, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia

    Mariana Xochiquétzal Rivera García holds a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from UAM-I and a master's degree in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO-Ecuador. She is currently a researcher at the Directorate of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of INAH and works as a documentary filmmaker and freelance photographer. She works in visual anthropology on issues such as memory, documentary and ethnographic film, and more recently on transmedia narratives. She is the author of several articles specialized in visual anthropology, as well as photographic essays. She is also the director of the documentaries Sueños de Mayo (2011), Escribiendo sobre el telar (2013), Telares Sonoros (2014), Nos pintamos solas (2014), El hilo de la memoria (2016), Huellas para la memoria (2016), and her most recent feature documentary Se va la vida, compañera (2018) project made with the DOCTV Latin America stimulus in its VI edition. Also noteworthy are his short musical documentaries, as well as music videos under the label of the production house Urdimbre Audiovisual.

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Published

2018-09-21

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018): Visual Cultures Towards the Pluralization of Visual Culture

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Encartes Multimedia

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The Threads of Memory. (2018). Encartes, 1(2), 218-223. https://doi.org/10.29340/en.v1n2.32