PLURIVERSATILITY, 2020, for bowb.org
Markos Karellas & me, designed an embroidery —a multi-layered texture of an analog and digital mosaic— that includes iconic elements.
Art Pluriverse is a community science series for arts and culture that envisions a boundary spanning approach to intangible cultural heritage (ICH) through art and open knowledge. Art Pluriverse is inspired by the concept of pluriversality as expressed in the recent publication “Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary” (Kothari et al., 2019), where traditional knowledge is extended to eco-cultural relations of locality, biocultural memory and grassroots collectivity. The first edition focuses on textiles and their communities of practice, resulting in research-based artworks and the development of digital community archives that allow communities to “take ownership of their own historical representations as a means of empowerment” (Caswell et al., 2018).