Events

On Wednesday 25 April, two Cuban artists - Lesbia Vent DuMois and Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco) will speak and show some short video clips at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus.  Both artists are included in the exhibition Beyond the Frame, at Cork Street Gallery, London until 28 April. 

Valeria Paz Moscoso, guest curator of Unravelling Threads, will give a talk on the exhibition, the artists and artworks at firstsite in the University Space at firstsite.  Time: 2-3pm

In an event related to the ESCALA exhibition Unravelling Threads, Chilean artist Vicuña's performance Fiber of Prayer / Fiber of Gold will explore the relationship between word and thread, while revisiting the artist’s exile in London after the military coup in Chile in 1973.

Hands-on workshop for all the family linked to ESCALA's exhibition Unravelling Threads.

This Conference arises from the AHRC-funded project Weaving communities of Practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes, based at CILAVS in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck and the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara (ILCA) in La Paz, Bolivia. The Conference aims to expand the scope of the ideas developed during the project, by sharing ideas with more than 30 leading international experts in the field, including textile scholars and curators from a variety of overseas and UK museums.

Through artworks from the ESCALA Collection, Unravelling Threads explores issues related to textile production by the indigenous people of the Andean region of South America.