(Un-)Stitching Gazes

Description

(Un-)Stitching Gazes is a collective of researchers and civil society activists in Colombia and the UK, who have developed a textiel narratuve and textile resonances methodology to foster diverse social dialogue between antagonistic groups. Its primary aim is to support the peace process in Colombia, but the method can be and has been used in a range of fields from work with mirgants and refugess to work with students and as a method for ongoing reflexivity in diverse researcher teams.

The (Un-)Stitching Gazes website invites its visitors to get to know the stories of peace signatories who were part of the FARC guerrilla group in COlombia, including the perspectives of their relatives and new neighbours, in dialogue with academic analyses and textile resonances of exhibition visitors and workshop particiapnts across and beyind Colombia. Textile metaphor and practice run through each section of this platform, to un-stitch and restitch views on others and on ourselves.