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Research – 2023-2025

Unfinished things …

We explore half-made textile pieces in everyday contexts, asking what these practices are saying about the experience of time and loss in contemporary capitalism.

Forged tiles, poisoned river and embroidered handkerchiefs: Craft stories for thinking carefully about the continuity of violence (Spanish)

Tania Pérez-Bustos, Isabel Gonzáles Arango, Natalia Quiceno Toro (2022). Baldosas forjadas, río envenenado y pañuelos bordados: Relatos de artesanías para pensar con cuidado la continuidad de la violencia. En Vessuri, H. (ed) “Conocimientos, sociedades y tecnologías en América Latina. Viejos modelos y desencantos, nuevos horizontes y desafíos”, (pp. 193-202) Bogotá: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

November 4th, 2021

Blankets (Portuguese)

Closing conference of the Laboratory in socioanthropological studies on life technologies. Encounters in the Labyrinth. Unicamp, Brazil.

March 17, 2021

Making Textiles to Invent Life in the Middle of the Colombian Armed Conflict (Spanish)

Presentation in panel "Responding to Crisis through Textiles", event: Textiles from home (after 1:28:36)